Weekly round-up #125
Weekly Round-up #125
In Weekly Round-up #125 we welcome 9 new members to VALIDATE and keep you up to date with the usual news and career opportunities.
Welcome New Members
We have a lot of new members to welcome to the VALIDATE community. Check out their profiles and consider getting in touch and forming a new collaboration.
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Wilfred Aniagyei is a Student Research Assistant at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
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Kenneth Akwue is an MSc Student at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and the College of Medicine, Malawi
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Itziar Chapartegui-Gonzalez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
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Ranita Ghosh Dastidar is an Assistant Professor at Kasturba Medical College, India
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Patrick Lennard is a Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh, UK
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Guesh Mulaw Weldesiet is a Researcher and Lecturer at Aksum University, Ethiopia
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Shilpa Sengupta is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, India
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Raju Sunagar is an Assistant Professor at the Ella Foundation, India
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Joseph Thiriot is a PhD Student at the University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
We are always keen to grow our community, so please let your colleagues know about the benefits of VALIDATE membership and encourage them to join.
Funding still seems to be negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but we are expecting more opportunities as the lock-down is lifted and we will keep you up-to-date on our funding page.
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Newton International Fellowships - This scheme provides early-career international researchers with an opportunity to build links and undertake a research project - deadline 3 September 2020
Training Opportunities and Events:
As the lock-down is slowly lifted, keep an eye on our Training Opportunities and Events pages.
- Vaccine confidence in the context of trials, Vaccine Confidence Project, Online, 30 July 2020
- M1 Vaccine Biomanufacturing, Transvac, Oxford UK, 22 - 25 September 2020
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TB Europe Coalition Officer - TB Europe Coalition, UK, deadline 8 July 2020
Our jobs page is updated regularly.
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Liposomal formulation of chimeraT, a Multiple t-cell epitope-containing recombinant protein, is a candidate Vaccine for human visceral leishmaniasis, Lag DP et al including VALIDATE Members Vivian Tamietti Martins, Eduardo Coelho and Myron Christodoulides, in MDPI
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A new Leishmania hypothetical protein can be used for accurate serodiagnosis of canine and human visceral leishmaniasis and as a potential prognostic marker for human disease, Machado AS et al including VALIDATE Member Eduardo Coelho, in Experimental Parasitology
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Double deletion of PknI/DacB2 leads to attenuation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for growth and virulence, Kandasamy S et al, in Tuberculosis
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Leishmania infantum pyridoxal kinase evaluated in a recombinant protein and DNA vaccine to protects against visceral leishmaniasis, João A. Oliveira-da-Silva JA et al including VALIDATE Member Eduardo Coelho, in Molecular Immunology
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have something you would like to add.
Highlights on Twitter this week
This week we shared Nature Career' guide on How to play at being a scientist before you get back into the lab, shared Prof Peter Hotez's comparison of COVID-19 Deaths with HIV and TB, and helped UKRI promote an event on using digital technologies in healthcare. Validate member Alfredo G Torres shared his interview on the Meet the Microbiologist podcast, IVVN Celebrated World Zoonoses Day, EDCTP reminded us of an upcoming deadline for their Career Development Fellowships and the MicroBio Society held a Coffee and Chat via Zoom. We helped the BSI promote their Diversity and Inclusion in Stem seminar and GHCT reminded us that TB is the biggest killer of people living with HIV. Follow us on Twitter @NetworkValidate.
Published: 08 July 2020
