Weekly round-up #102

Weekly round-up #102

You now have under 2 weeks left to apply for the VALIDATE Mentoring Scheme, so get your application submitted soon! Each call, we aim to place around 10 up-and-coming post-docs/early PIs with Senior Scientist mentors from the Network, to give you guidance, support and providing an independent perspective on your career, goals and more. To find out more about how a mentor can benefit your career, and to apply, visit our mentoring webpage.

We'd like to extend a warm welcome to Prof Jean van den Elsen (University of Bath, UK) who joined VALIDATE this week as our newest Investigator member, and to congratulate Prof Benny Chain (UCL, UK), who has upgraded from Affiliate to Investigator membership.

Funding:

Wellcome - PhD Programme in One Health Models of Disease - Providing unique training in state-of-the-art techniques in the design and application of new One Health models of disease - deadline 16 Jan 2020
Microbiology Society - Harry Smith Vacation Studentships - To enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects tackling antimicrobial resistance during summer - deadline 17 Feb 2020
DELTAS Africa Phase II - Call for Applications - Aiming to build a critical mass of globally competitive African research leaders and strong research outputs that address local challenges and contexts - deadline 28 Feb 2020
TMRP Global Health Pump Priming Awards - Funding of between £2000-£10,000 specifically for methodology research projects relevant to LMICs - deadline 1 Mar 2020

Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

BSI 'Webinar series for early career researchers' - Building resilience - 10 Feb 2020
LSHTM Course - Health & Policy Systems - 20-24 Jul 2020

Take a look at our training opportunities page for further ideas for your career development.

Events:

LSHTM Planetary Health Conference - Banjul, The Gambia, 22-24 Jan 2020
Inaugural Lecture - TB or not TB? The fight for immunity - Edinburgh, UK, 27 Jan 2020
RSTMH Topics in Infection - London, UK, 31 Jan 2020
RSTMH Research Ideas Showcase - Various locations, India, 11-18 Mar 2020
CDC World TB Day - 24 Mar 2020
BSP Spring Meeting - Edinburgh, UK, 14-17 Apr 2020
Wellcome Genome Campus - Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance - Hinxton, UK, 4-6 May 2020
The 6th World One Health Congress - Edinburgh, UK, 14-18 Jun 2020
16th World Congress on Public Health - Rome, Italy, 12-17 Oct 2020

Visit our events page for all the other upcoming events in our field.

Job Opportunities:

PhD Programme in One Health Models of Disease - The Roslin Institute, UK, deadline 16 Jan 2020
Research Technician - Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, UK, deadline 16 Jan 2020
TB Controller (Programme Admin Manager) - The Virginia Department of Health, USA, deadline 21 Jan 2020
Tenure Track Fellow/Lecturer in Infection Immunology - Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, UK, deadline 31 Jan 2020
Country Ambassador - RSTMH, UK, no deadline stated, voluntary role, 2020
Global Assessors - RSTMH, UK, no deadline stated, ongoing programme, 2020

To view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.

Publications:

Controlled human infection models - is it really feasible to give people tuberculosis? editorial in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, by VALIDATE Director Helen McShane
Mycobacterium tuberculosis limits host glycolysis and IL-1β by restriction of PFK-M via MicroRNA-21 in Cell Reports
Tools for assessing the protective efficacy of TB vaccines in humans: in vitro mycobacterial growth inhibition predicts outcome of in vivo mycobacterial infection in Frontiers in Immunology, by VALIDATE members Rachel Tanner, Iman Satti, Stephanie Harris, Deniz Cizmeci, Rachel Wittenberg, Helen Fletcher, Helen McShane and collaborators
Identification of antigens presented by MHC for vaccines against tuberculosis in npj Vaccines, by VALIDATE members Paulo Bettencourt, Rachel Wittenberg, Nawamin Pinpathomrat, Simon Waddell, Elena Stylianou, Helen McShane and collaborators
A phase I trial evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of a candidate tuberculosis vaccination regimen, ChAdOx1 85A prime – MVA85A boost in healthy UK adults in Vaccine, by VALIDATE members Iman Satti, Stephanie Harris, Lisa Stockdale, Samantha Vermaak, Helen McShane and collaborators

Take a look at our publications page for papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.

Highlights on Twitter this week: Pip Stewart's TEDx talk about her story of becoming infected with leishmaniasis; India is on the path to closing the gap between the number of tuberculosis cases estimated and those detected; Infolep have a monthly update of new publications on leprosy; World TB Day is approaching on March 24th; and an article highlighting where you can find good quality images relating to medical research and healthcare. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE where you can easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.

Published: 15 January 2020