Weekly round-up #147
Weekly Round-up #147
Weekly Round-up #147 has all the usual updates about job vacancies, new funding calls and recent publications relevant to VALIDATE members - and this week is Outreach Week at VALIDATE and you can still get involved by telling us about any interesting public engagement you have carried out recently.
VALIDATE for Schools!
Earlier today, over 200 students in schools around the UK joined VALIDATE members Prof Helen McShane and Dr Rachel Tanner on Microsoft Teams for the first VALIDATE for Schools event. Helen and Rachel talked about their careers, TB, animal testing and sweaty t-shirts. They also responded to some fantastic questions from the students on subjects that ranged from scientist salaries to CRISPR. The video will be available on YouTube very soon.
This will be the first of many VALIDATE for Schools talks. If you wish to host a similar event for schools near you, whether face to face or via the internet, VALIDATE can help so get in touch - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
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Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 6 - £900 million fund that is helping to establish the careers of world-class research and innovation leaders across UK business and academia - deadline 3 February 2021
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GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST Research Collaborations in South-East Asia - Apply for funding to connect current and recently funded projects focused on sustainable development in south-east Asia - deadline 21 February 2021
Training Opportunities and Events:
- 4th International Conference on Vaccines, Immunization and Clinical Trials - Online 10-11 March 2021
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International Veterinary Immunology Symposium, Kruger National Park South Africa, 8-12 August 2022
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Research Associate in Respiratory Virus & Vaccine Immunology, Imperial College, London UK, deadline 3 January 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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Immunoregulatory and antimicrobial activity of bovine neutrophil β-defensin-5-loaded PLGA nanoparticles against Mycobacterium bovis, Liang Z et al, in Pharmaceutics
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Fusion cytokines il-7-linker-il-15 promote Mycobacterium tuberculosis subunit vaccine to induce central memory like T cell-mediated immunity, Bai C et al, in Vaccines
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Taking the next-gen step: Comprehensive antimicrobial resistance detection from Burkholderia pseudomallei, Madden DE et al, in EbioMedicine
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A scalable and reproducible manufacturing process for Phlebotomus papatasi salivary protein PpSP15, a vaccine candidate for leishmaniasis, Liu Z et al including VALIDATE member Maria Elena Bottazzi, in Protein Expression and Purification
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Key recent advances in TB vaccine development and understanding of protective immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Scriba TJ et al, in Immunology
Highlights on Twitter this week:
BactiVac held a Project Management Training course and Nature published an article arguing that mentors do not need to be old and wise like Yoda. We launched Outreach Week and highlighted Prof Siobhán McClean’s work with Science Soapbox and her interviews on RTE News about COVID. Member Dr Rachel Tanner also got excited about Outreach Week and The Female Lead celebrated the co-inventor of the Mueller-Hinton agar solution, Jane Hinton. We tweeted about our Outreach Guide which made the BSI very happy, and Julen Tomás-Cortázar shared his new VALIDATE videos about T-cell immunity which he recorded in English, Spanish and Basque. Outreach Week continues, so you can use the hashtag #OutreachWeek on Twitter and follow @NetworkVALIDATE for all the latest info.
Published: 09 December 2020
