Weekly round-up #104

Weekly round-up #104

We are excited to announce that VALIDATE will be hosting an Immunometabolism Workshop in Oxford from 22-24 April 2020, which we hope will interest many of our members. The workshop is aimed at all researchers who would like to know more about immunometabolism and the techniques used to address the interplay between metabolism and cell function, particularly with regards to intracellular pathogens and vaccine development. We want to encourage people to attend who already have specific plans to study immunometabolism in their upcoming research projects. To find out more, including how to register, visit the workshop webpage. The deadline for applications is 18 March 2020.

The first ever World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day is coming up on 30 January, so keep an eye on our website and Twitter to stay updated. It would be great if our members could help spread the message; just visit the World NTD Day website for more information and ideas on how you can do so.

Thank you to everyone who applied to the fourth and final VALIDATE Mentoring Scheme call. This call is now closed and successful candidates will be informed in late February.

There is still one month left to apply for the current round of VALIDATE Training Grants. This call is open to Associate members, and can include (but is not limited to): attendance at courses or workshops, laboratory exchanges and work shadowing, as well as attendance at international conferences for LMIC members. For more information, or to apply, visit our call webpage - the application deadline is 4pm (UK) on 24 February 2020.

Funding:

ERC Consolidator Grants - To support researchers who wish to establish an independent research team and continue to develop a successful career in Europe, or for those who have recently created an independent research team and wish to strengthen it - deadline 4 Feb 2020
MRC Joint Global Health Trials - Call 10 Trial Development - To provide funding for the best proposals to generate new knowledge about interventions that will contribute to the improvement of health in low and middle income countries - deadline 5 Feb 2020
MRC CASE Doctoral Training Partnership scheme - One-year full-time Master of Research (MRes) in Global Health at Lancaster University followed by a three-year full-time PhD programme at LSTM - deadline 13 Feb 2020
Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships - Three Fellowship schemes (Early Career, Intermediate, and Senior Fellowships) for researchers wanting to establish an independent research career in India - deadline 18 Feb 2020
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships - To support independent researchers who are emerging as global leaders in their field and want to tackle the most important questions in science - deadline 27 Feb 2020
Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards in Science - To enable independent researchers with a compelling research vision to tackle the most important questions in science - deadline 27 Feb 2020
The Newton International Fellowship - For non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK - deadline 26 Mar 2020

There are plenty more funding opportunities to look through on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

Global Tuberculosis Community Advisory Board - call for new members - Deadline 11 Feb 2020

Our training opportunities page has previously spotted opportunities to help your career development.

Events:

VIB Science Translational Immunology Conference - Ghent, Belgium, 26-27 Mar 2020
BSI Symposium 'Fundamental Mechanisms of Immune Responses' - Birmingham, UK, 9 Jul 2020

Take a look at our events page to see other upcoming events.

Job Opportunities:

MRC CASE Doctoral Training Partnership scheme - Lancaster University/LSTM, UK, deadline 13 Feb 2020
Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships - Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, deadline 18 Feb 2020
Research Associate - University of Cambridge, UK, deadline 23 Feb 2020
Senior Research Fellowships - Wellcome Trust, deadline 27 Feb 2020
The Newton International Fellowship - At an agreed UK host organisation, deadline 26 Mar 2020

Go to our job webpage to see other vacancies we have listed.

Publications:

The future of vaccines for tuberculosis in Clinics in Chest Medicine, by VALIDATE members Lisa Stockdale and Helen Fletcher
Evaluating the sensitivity of the bovine BCG challenge model using a prime boost Ad85A vaccine regimen in Vaccine, by VALIDATE members Lucia Biffar, Helen McShane, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos and collaborators
A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region in bioRxiv

Our publications page has a list of papers that are relevant to our focus pathogens. Don't forget to let us know when you publish a paper and we will add it to our website.

Highlights on Twitter this week: A toolkit has been released to help you spread the world about World Neglected Tropical Disease Day; the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute has obtained the license for continued development of the M72/AS01E tuberculosis vaccine candidate from GSK; Tatyana Dubich gives networking advice for postdoctoral researchers/scientists; and how to write a scientific paper using Kipling's special formula: 'what, why, when, how, where and who'. We post relevant news and other developments of interest to our members on our Twitter account, so do check it out: @NetworkVALIDATE.

Published: 29 January 2020