Weekly round-up #123
Weekly Round-up #123
Along with our usual collection of news and updates, we have an exciting new Summer Seminar to tell you about and an important survey for our members.
VALIDATE Online Summer Seminar - Nonspecific factors in the immunopathogenesis of leishmaniasis
A couple of weeks ago we launched our Online Summer Seminar Series. We are pleased to announce an addition to the programme from leishmaniasis researchers Assoc Prof Hiro Goto and Dr Eduardo Ramos Sanchez at the University of São Paulo. You can find out more and register online.
You can also still register for other upcoming seminars:
- Developing a vaccine for Melioidosis: Probing the protective immune response with Prof Siobhán McClean and Dr Julen Tomás Cortázar from University College Dublin
- Melioidosis and Glanders with Associate Professor Mary Burtnick from University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
VALIDATE Members' Communications and Resources Survey
We would greatly appreciate it if VALIDATE members would participate in a short survey to give us feedback about how we communicate with you and what you think about the resources we offer our members. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete and will help us identify the best ways to keep you up to date and to make VALIDATE as useful to you as possible.
- The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program - A scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions - deadline 30 June 2020
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TWAS-ICCBS Postgraduate Fellowship Programme - These fellowships are for young scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in chemical and biological sciences - deadline 31 July 2020
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TWAS-CSIR Postgraduate Fellowship Programme - These fellowships for are foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue research toward a PhD in emerging areas of science and technology - deadline 31 July 2020
Training Opportunities and Events:
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7 ways the Research Design Canvas can help you to plan, progress and finish your PhD, Online, 30 June 2020
The Training Opportunities and Events pages are regularly updated with the latest events that VALIDATE members will find interesting.
- Research Associate - University of Bristol, UK, deadline 2 July 2020
- Scientist - Public Health England, UK, deadline 5 July 2020
Our jobs page has an up to date list of roles relevant to our members.
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Melioidosis in Gujarat: a neglected tropical disease, VALIDATE Network Affiliate Tushar Shaw et al, in Tropical Doctor
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Clofazimine enhances the efficacy of BCG revaccination via stem cell-like memory T cells, Ahmad S et al, in Plos Pathogens
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Interactions between helminths and tuberculosis infections: Implications for tuberculosis diagnosis and vaccination in Africa, Cadmus SO et al, in Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Preclinical assessment of a new live attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing based vaccine for tuberculosis, Levillain F et al including VALIDATE Members Ann Rawkins, Greg Bancroft and Olivier Neyrolles, in Vaccine
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Study of TNF-α, IFN-γ, TGF-β, IL-6, and IL-10 gene polymorphism in individuals from the leprosy endemic area in the Brazilian Amazon, Cordeirodos Santos E et al, in Meta Gene
Keep checking our Publications Page for an up to date list of our members' recent publications and email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have published recently so that we can flag your paper to the community.
Highlights on Twitter this week
This week we have retweeted VALIDATE Member Tushar Shaw who published the first case of melioidosis documented in Gujarat, a news article warning dog owners in France about the dangers of canine leishmaniasis, a photo of the Angorichina Hostel in 1925 where the first TB vaccine in Australia was deployed, and we shared the Oxford Vaccine Group’s video on Typhoid. We also retweeted Write That PhD who have arranged an online Webinar on using Research Design Canvas to plan, progress and finish your PhD and shared 40 tips for thesis writing by Prof Tim Leighton.
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Published: 24 June 2020