Weekly round-up #128
VALIDATE Members taking part in Melioidosis and Glanders
Weekly Round-up #128
Another week and another VALIDATE Weekly Round-up. We have two summer seminars recorded and ready for you to watch and the usual updates of job, training and funding opportunities.
VALIDATE Summer Seminars
THIS AFTERNOON!
Nonspecific factors in the immunopathogenesis of leishmaniasis
Professor Hiro Goto and Dr Eduardo Milton Ramos Sanchez from the Universidade de Sao Paulo will be online via MS Teams to answer questions about their talks on Leishmaniasis.
You should watch the talks first by logging on to WebLearn and watching the seminar on Panopto. We can also send you a link to the video if you register for the Q&A.
You can register for the live Q&A which will take place this afternoon at 14:30 BST.
If you are having trouble with Panopto or wish to submit a question before the seminar, email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Last Thursday 23 July - Melioidosis and Glanders
On Thursday, VALIDATE Members gathered once again on Zoom for the second VALIDATE Summer Seminars to hear Associate Professor Mary Burtnick talk about Melioidosis and Glanders. Members can watch the talk and the fascinating Q&A by first logging on to WebLearn and then opening the Panopto folder.
Future Seminars
If you would like to hold your own Online VALIDATE Seminar, get in touch and pitch an idea- validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Not much in the way of funding this week but there are some imminent deadlines approaching. Keep up-to-date on our funding page.
- EDCTP Career Development Fellowships in poverty-related diseases and child and adolescent health, 2020 - To support early- to mid-career researchers ("fellows") by providing them with opportunities to train and develop their clinical research skills - deadline 5 August 2020
- EDCTP Innovative approaches to enhance poverty-related diseases research, 2020 - To fund small to medium scale clinical trials and/or clinical research studies that deliver proof of concept or validation of smart, highly innovative technologies or concepts to prevent, treat or diagnose PRDs in sub-Saharan Africa - deadline 13 August
Training Opportunities and Events:
Our Training Opportunities and Events pages are updated regularly.
- 51st World Conference on Lung Health, The Union, Online, 21 to 24 October 2020
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Various Roles (including MSc, PhD and Postdocs), University of Geneva, no stated deadline
Our jobs page is updated regularly.
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Designing of precise vaccine construct against visceral leishmaniasis through predicted epitope ensemble: A contemporary approach, Singh G et al, in Computational Biology and Chemistry
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Accuracy of tuberculosis diagnostic tests in small ruminants: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Roy A et al in Preventative Veterinary Medicine
Published recently? Let us know and we will add it to our Publications Page. Email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Highlights on Twitter this week
TB News daily tweeted a study that showed Vitamin D supplementation may not lower the risk of TB infection and BactiVac tweeted a study about the delivery costs of immunization. Our friends at the Vaccine Confidence Project were promoting the book "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start — and Why They Don’t Go Away" by VALIDATE Network Investigator Heidi Larson. The Union announced its 51st World Conference on Lung Health will be free for people who have survived lung diseases. Lepra encouraged members to take part in the Virtual Ride London in support of their important work and the Fogarty International Centre announce $58M for new Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery & Innovation in Africa. We celebrated the birthday of Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, the Norwegian who first identified Mycobacterium leprae and helped promote the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme's TB talk show.
Published: 29 July 2020
