Weekly round-up #167
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ye-0xSZADpE
Yesterday, over 50 school students joined VALIDATE members Michele Miller and Wynand Goosen for BCG100 for Schools: Pathways to becoming wildlife researchers. Michele and Wynand talked about their exciting careers paths, their research tracking and combatting wildlife TB in South Africa, and explained why one should always make sure a buffalo is fully sedated before approaching.
You can watch and share the video, which is now up on our YouTube channel (along with many of our previous events).
Why not hold your own school’s event?
If you would be happy to chat with school students from anywhere in the World, VALIDATE would be happy to help facilitate a similar event, so get in touch – validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- BBSRC-FAPESP: UK-Brazil collaborative projects - For UK-Brazil collaborative projects; research must be within BBSRC remit – 21 September 2021
- BSI Communicating Immunology Grants - The BSI are accepting Communicating Immunology Grant applications and welcome digital or online project ideas. They are particularly keen to hear of projects for engaging the public about COVID-19 in digital/online formats – 1 October 2021
- NIH Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research - To support projects that utilise open-access data to address knowledge gaps in basic/clinical research of infectious disease – 16 October 2021
This is only a small selection of the external funding we have listed and you can find more on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- International Gnatwork Conference, Online conference, 24 May 2021
- Advanced TB Diagnostics, Online, 7 June 2021
- Seventh International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis, Galway, Ireland, 7 June 2021
More opportunities can be found on our Training and Events pages.
- Regional Programme Manager – Midlands, Medical Research Council, Leicester, United Kingdom, deadline 9 June 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Case Study: Melioidosis and sickle cell disease: Description of a rare association, Ya-Pongombo Shongo M et al, in Theory and Clinical Practice in Pediatrics
- Robust IgM responses following vaccination are associated with prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macaques, Edward B. Irvine EB et al, in bioRxiv
- Leishmaniasis immunopathology—impact on design and use of vaccines, diagnostics and drugs, VALIDATE member Paul M. Kaye et al, in Seminars in Immunopathology
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
We shared a very useful resource disseminating information about melioidosis to the public, researchers and policymakers, the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at Stellenbosch University live-tweeted our BCG100 for Schools event and we continued our #BCG100Facts with some evocative paintings from Edvard Munch and Cristóbal Rojas. Nature Careers had some advice on starting a PhD in the pandemic and how philosophy can help scientists whilst Write that PhD had some advice on structuring a good manuscript. TB News Daily had an excellent infographic comparing the resources given to COVID vs TB vaccines and Eliminate TB shared information on COVID vaccine supply chains that might be relevant to tuberculosis.
Following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter is the best way to keep up to date. You can also take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BG100.
Published: 12 May 2021
