Weekly round-up #154
Weekly Round-up #154
Welcome to Weekly Round-up #154.
Tomorrow is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. VALIDATE will be joining the global science community to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and technology and to support full and equal access to and participation in science around the world.
Throughout tomorrow, VALIDATE will be celebrating the amazing work of our women members with a series of infographics. We'd love you all to get involved, by emailing us with a short and positive statement about being a woman in science if relevant, and by engaging on social media on Thursday and sharing information and our infographics to celebrate this day.
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MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship - Supports clinicians to transition to research leadership – deadline 21 April 2021
- MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship - Up to 5 years' support for PIs in a challenging research programme – deadline 21 April 2021
- BBSRC Standard Research Grant - Funding to support a range of activities from research projects to technology development, new infrastructure and equipment, use of equipment and facilities, networks, and summer schools – deadline 28 April 2021
- MRC Molecular & Cellular Medicine Board New Investigator Research Grants - To support researchers in becoming PIs - deadline 5 May 2021
- MRC Molecular & Cellular Medicine Board Partnership Grants - Core funds to support partnerships between diverse groupings of researchers for 1-5 years – deadline 5 May 2021
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events
- Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches, University of Chicago, USA - 11 July to 10 August 2021
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Control and Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis, Future Learn, Online Course Available now
More opportunities are to be found on our Training and Events pages.
- Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Tokyo, Japan, deadline 10 April 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
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TNFRp75‐dependent immune regulation of alveolar macrophages and neutrophils during early Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection, Walters A et al, in Immunology
- Immunological characterization of chimeras of high specificity antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, Fatma F et al, in Tuberculosis (Edinb)
- Combinational PRR Agonists in liposomal adjuvant enhances immunogenicity and protective efficacy in a Tuberculosis Subunit Vaccine, Hao L et al, in Frontiers in Immunology
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T Cells specific for a mycobacterial glycolipid expand after intravenous Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination, Layton ED et al, in The Journal of Immunology
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Functional inactivation of pulmonary MAIT cells following 5-OP-RU treatment of non-human primates, Sakai S et al, in bioRxiv
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Human antibodies targeting a Mycobacterium transporter protein mediate protection against tuberculosis, Watson A et al, in Nature Communications
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like to add.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
Jenner Vaccine Trial shared our video “A Vaccine for Leprosy?”, we reminded followers about our upcoming event 'BCG Then and Now', and we shared details of a new TB treatment that reduces the number of pills needed. LSHTM are holding some Doctoral Studies Open Evenings, we shared a National Geographic article about badger TB in the UK as well as a piece from RSHTM discussing ending NTDs in Nigeria, and the Vaccine Confidence Project tweeted a Vox article about talking to vaccine-hesitant family members. On the lead up to Valentines Day The Stop TB Partnership will be interviewing couples who are fighting TB around the world and the 80 year old Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, Dr Anthony Fauci, has stated he won’t retire until he has looked at tackling the COVID, HIV, malaria and TB pandemics. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter and take part in International Women and Girls in Scoence day using the #February11 hashtag.
Published: 10 February 2021
