Weekly round-up #180
We are back after a two-week summer vacation from Weekly Round-ups. Despite the lack of WRUs, VALIDATE and its members have been very busy.
Welcoming our newest members
Our ever-growing community welcomes 15 new members from all over the world and we are happy to add Sweden and Libya to the list of VALIDATE countries.
Network Affiliates
- Dr Jennifer Hill is a Project Manager at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health Oxford University, UK
- Miss Alexandra Morrison is a Scientist at Public Health England, UK
- Dr Yupei Xiao is the Medical Science Liaison at Oxford Immunotec
- Mr Ismaila Manneh is a Research Degree Student at the LSHTM, The Gambia
- Miss Jessica Williams is a Research Scientist at Public Health England
- Mr Brian Munansangu is a PhD candidate at the Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Assistant Professor Jelalu Kemal Birmeka is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the Haramaya University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ethiopia
- Mr Faraj Saeid is a veterinarian at the National Centre for Animal Health, Libya
- Ms Rhea Zambellas is a Clinical Project Manager at the University of Oxford, UK
Network Associates
- Mr Lam Nguyen Ho is a Lecturer at the University of Medicine & Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Dr Sarah Nyangu is a Clinical research fellow at the CIDRZ, Zambia
- Dr Nastassja Kriel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biomedical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Dr Paul Akinduti is a Lecturer and researcher at the Microbiology Unit of the Department of Biological Sciences, Covenant University, Ethiopia
Network Investigators
- Dr Chris Sundling Dr Chris Sundling is a Researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Professor Sarah Fortune is the John LaPorte Given Professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
Reminder - VALIDATE Annual Meeting 2021 - Register today!
As we mentioned in the last Weekly Round-up, VALIDATE's next annual meeting will be taking place online, across three days: 15 September, 14 October, and 16 November. We are still adding to the 2021 programme but you can find out more and register for one, two or all of the days on the Annual Meeting 2021 webpage - www.validate-network.org/annual-meeting-2021
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TWAS-NRF Doctoral Fellowships - TWAS-NRF Doctoral Fellowships are tenable at research institutions in South Africa for a maximum period of three years - deadline 20 August 2021
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Strategic longer and larger grants: frontier bioscience - Apply for funding for frontier bioscience research that addresses significant fundamental questions in bioscience – deadline 31 August
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MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowships - Supports clinicians to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree – deadline 1 September
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MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship (CSF) - For doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, AHP (& some vets) to establish their own research group – deadline 1 September
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BBSRC-NSF/BIO lead agency 2021 - Allows US and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process by the lead agency, on behalf of both NSF/BIO and BBSRC - deadline 22 September 2021
You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
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BCG Symposium, Pasteur Institute Lille, France, 17 November 2021
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VIB Science Translational Immunology Conference, VIB Headquarters, Ghent, Belgium, 22 November 2021
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British Society for Immunology Congress 2021, Edinburgh, UK, 28 November- 1 December 2021
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2nd International Congress of Micro-Immunotherapy, Mallorca, Spain, 2 June 2022
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- Director of the Tuberculosis Department,The Union, no stated deadline
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Multifunctional T cell response in active pulmonary tuberculosis patients, Qin S et al, in International Immunopharmacology
- Immunoinformatics analysis of antigenic epitopes and designing of a multi-epitope peptide vaccine from putative nitro-reductases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosR, Shiraz M et al, in Infection, Genetics and Evolution
- Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at acidic pH depends on lipid assimilation and is accompanied by reduced GAPDH activity, Gouzy A et al, in PNAS
- Epitope mapping from Mycobacterium leprae proteins: Convergent data from in silico and in vitro approaches for serodiagnosis of leprosy, Soares A, Molecular Immunology
- Effect of BCG vaccination on proinflammatory responses in elderly individuals, Pavan Kumar N et al, in ScienceAdvances
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:
It has been a busy two weeks on Twitter and we now have more than 1,000 followers!
We promoted our Annual Meeting and shared the British Society for Immunology’s new public engagement resource. Write that PhD Had some advice for drafting grant applications, a guide to statistics and a free 108-page e-book to help design research and your study off to a successful start. Nature Careers discussed teaching science to non-native speakers of English, the findings of their survey of postdocs and shared 5 online tools that aim to save researchers time and trouble. Hugh Kearns had some advice for “Snack Writing” and CRNS published an article on 100 years of BGC. Member Cynthia Diaz celebrated the participation of VALIDATE members at ALAM2021 and the UCL TB unit shared the video of their BCG centenary symposium. Gavi has an excellent article on clinical trials and vaccine safety, and the BSI will spend the next few weeks talking about their career enhancement grant. We shared the WHO’s catalogue of tuberculosis mutations, congratulated VALIDATE member Dr Justice Boakye-Appiah for winning the St George's Innovation Award and shared The Scientist article on “What you need to know about Melioidosis”. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter for all this and more - and take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 18 August 2021
