Weekly round-up #124

Weekly Round-up #124

In this week's round-up of news, information and opportunities, we celebrate holding our first online seminar of 2020.

First VALIDATE Online Summer Seminar

Yesterday, VALIDATE Members from 14 countries connected via Zoom for the first VALIDATE Online Seminar. Prof Siobhán McClean and Dr Julen Tomás Cortázar from University College Dublin, Ireland, talked about their work probing the protective immune response and developing a vaccine for melioidosis. The recording will be uploaded soon and VALIDATE members will be able to watch the talks and Q&A by first logging on to WebLearn and then clicking here.

Our next seminars will take place towards the end of July:

Melioidosis and Glanders with Associate Professor Mary Burtnick from University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, USA (23 July)
Nonspecific factors in the immunopathogenesis of leishmaniasis with Associate Professor Hiro Goto and Dr Eduardo Milton Ramos Sanchez from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (29 July)

Funding:

There's not much new in the way of funding, but the following deadlines are imminent:

Ethics and regulatory capacities - This call for proposals aims to support sub-Saharan African countries to establish and/or develop robust national medicines regulatory systems - deadline 16 July 2020
MRC Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS) outline, 2020 - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “re-purposing” of existing therapies - deadline 22 July 2020
Editing Press - Laura Bassi Scholarship (Summer), 2020 - Aims to provide editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study - deadline 25 July

Training Opportunities and Events:

The Training Opportunities and Events pages are regularly updated with the latest events that VALIDATE members will find interesting.

Summer School on Vaccinology, University of Antwerp, 6 July
LSHTM Course - Health Policy & Systems, Online, 20 July

Job Opportunities:

Call for nominations - WHO Diagnostics and Technical Advisory Group, Switzerland, deadline15 July 2020
Research Fellow in Bioinformatician - UCL, UK, deadline 15 July 2020

Our jobs page has an up to date list of roles relevant to our members.

Publications:

Comparative assessment of DNA targets and amplification methods for leishmania (viannia) detection in human samples, Rosales-Chilama M et al, in TopMed
Identification of gene fusion events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis that encode chimeric proteins, VALIDATE Member Dr Jomien Mouton et al, in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
Recent developments in the application of flow cytometry to advance our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and pathogenesis, VALIDATE Member Dr Jomien Mouton et al, in Cytometry
CD11cHi monocyte-derived macrophages are a major cellular compartment infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Lee J et al, in Plos Pathogens

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

We retweeted TB News Daily who shared a study on the impact of COVID-19 on TB Deaths and shared Nature Careers advice on what to do when your research comes under fire. We helped the IVA celebrate the elimination of polio in Nigeria, promoted Transvac training and celebrated our first Summer Seminar.

Published: 01 July 2020