Weekly round-up #158
VALIDATE Weekly Round-up #158 is once again chock full details of upcoming events, training, funding, publications and news important to our members.
BCG100 for Schools - 11 May 2021 - Spread the Word
Last week we officially launched BCG100, our programme of events and online activities celebrating the centenary of the BCG vaccine that has protected millions against tuberculosis. A major part of this programme will be our BCG100 for Schools talks, where VALIDATE members talk about their research and careers in STEM to schoolkids. Our first event will be on 11 May, so please do publicise the talk to any children and/or schools that you know who might be interested in learning more about 'Journeys in science: Pathways to becoming wildlife researchers'. Find out more at www.validate-network.org/bcg100-for-schools.
Your own schools event?
We have already had requestions from teachers for us to provide similar events in June and July 2021. Outreach with young people is a valuable part of any researchers' work - we want to inspire the next generation (and get out the correct facts around vaccines) - so please get in touch with the VALIDATE Team (validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk) ASAP if you would like to hold your own VALIDATE event for students.
Discuss BCG100 on the VALIDATE Hub
If you have any thoughts and ideas for BCG100, whether that be schools events or any other activity, join the discussion on the BCG100 channel of the VALIDATE Hub.
- BBSRC Standard Research Grant - Up to £2 million to support a range of activities from research projects to technology development, new infrastructure and equipment, use of equipment and facilities, networks, and schools – 28 April 2021
- MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship - Up to 5 years' support for PIs in a challenging research programme - 5 May 2021
- MRC MCMB: New Investigator Research Grants - To support researchers in becoming PIs – 5 May 2021
- MRC MCMB: Partnership Grants - Core funds to support partnerships between diverse groupings of researchers for 1-5 years – 5 May 2021
- NIHR Global Health Research Groups (research and innovation) - Address unmet global health needs through equitable research partnerships and must have joint UK and LMIC lead applicants – 18 May 2021
- MRC Biomed Catalyst - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “re-purposing” of existing therapies – 24 July
- BactiVac Catalyst Training Awards - Funding is available to support training opportunities and exchanges, prioritising those involving LMIC members and academic/industrial partners – 31 August 2021
You can find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- GHN Scientific Manuscript Writing Workshop, Online, 15 March 2021
- TRANSVAC M3 course: Adjuvants and vaccine formulation, Vaccine Formulation Institute, Switzerland, 25-28 March 2021
- IVVN Making effective oral and poster presentations, Online, 6 April 2021
- IVVN Essential Bioinformatics, Online, 13 April 2021
- IVVN Grant Writing Course, Online, 21 April 2021
- BSP Parasites Conference 2021, Online, 21-25 June 2021
VALIDATE also has an exciting series of upcoming events including seminars and workshops and there are more opportunities that can be found on our Training and Events pages.
- Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Epidemiology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, deadline 18 March 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Super enhancer-mediated transcription of miR146a-5p drives M2 polarization during Leishmania donovani infection, Das S et al, in Plos Pathogens
- Number of people requiring post-exposure prophylaxis to end leprosy: A modelling study, Taal AT et al, in Plos NTDs
- Blood-based host biomarker diagnostics in active case finding for pulmonary tuberculosis: A diagnostic case-control study, Moreira FMF, E Clinical Medicine
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A Mycobacterial systems resource for the research community, Judd JA et al, in mBio
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Spreading of a mycobacterial cell surface lipid into host epithelial membranes promotes infectivity, Cambier CJ et al, in BioRxiv
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:
Nature Careers shared an article discussing the lack of feedback from grant providers, while the Jenner House Museum and the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre both promoted our 'BCG Then and Now' upcoming public talk. For international Women’s Day the “I” had an all-women front page dominated by vaccine researcher Prof Sarah Gilbert, Gigagen celebrated its female team members, and we shared the video of our latest VALIDATE for Schools event. GAVI reported on COVID vaccines being delivered by drones in Ghana, TB World Daily shared a report on the dangerous TB situation in the Western Cape, South Africa, and Medical Xpress highlighted an article explaining how ancient DNA has revealed how TB shaped the human immune system. Following VALIDATE on Twitter is the best way to keep update to date with all this and more: @NetworkVALIDATE.
Published: 10 March 2021
