Weekly round-up #169
VALIDATE Youtube Channel
As you know, VALIDATE has a YouTube Channel where we have uploaded a great selection of videos. The selection includes seminars and workshops suitable for career researchers and talks and info videos suitable for the public. There are no limitations on who can watch these videos so please feel free to share. We have posted a few of the videos below:
Public Lectures
Public Information Videos
- BSI - Equality, Diversity & Inclusion activity grants - The British Society for Immunology believes that bringing together people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will support innovation and research through a diversity of ideas and to solve challenges faced by our world - deadline 4 June 2021
- Multimodal Research Across Scales To Understand Human Disease - Apply for funding to support the development of a new research collaboration to expand understanding of human disease – deadline 6 August 2021
- BBSRC Standard Research Grant (21RM3) - Projects can range in size up to £2 million and last up to five years. Funding can support a range of activities from research projects to technology development, new infrastructure and equipment, use of equipment and facilities, networks, and summer school – deadline 21 September 2021
You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- IVVN Ethics, Experimental Design and the 3Rs in Animal Infectious Disease Research, University of Nottingham, UK 8 June 2021
- Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches, University of Chicago, USA, 11 July 2021
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
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Regional Programme Manager – Midlands, Medical Research Council, Leicester, United Kingdom, deadline 9 June 2021
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Data Manager in Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, University of Oxford, UK, deadline 3 June 2021
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Lung Epithelial Cells Can Produce Antibodies Participating In Adaptive Humoral Immune Responses, Gao E et al, in bioRxiv
- Robust IgM responses following vaccination are associated with prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macaques, Irvine EB et al, in bioRxiv
- Activate-2: a double-blind randomized trial of BCG vaccination against COVID19 in individuals at risk, Tsilika M, in medRxiv
- Balance between Protection and Pathogenic Response to Aerosol Challenge with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in Mice Vaccinated with TriFu64, a Fusion Consisting of Three Mtb Antigens, Mtb Antigens, VALIDATE Member Sadaf Sulman et al, in MDPI
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
We shared our page on Leishmaniasis and our VALID8 Interviews. We also drew attention to an article by New Atlas article about a new TB test for children, details of Western Cape’s new tuberculosis dashboard and continued our #BCG100Facts with infographics on the Brontë Sisters and the high death toll in 18th and 19th century Europe. Write That PhD has some advice for writing introduction, discussion and result sections for journal articles. Nature Careers had some stories about obtaining lottery funding and how better University rewards systems can help tackle bullying. We promoted our upcoming public talk, LSHTM has discovered that dogs can smell COVID-19 and EDCTP tweeted a reminder about the deadline for submission for their upcoming forum. Easily stay up to date by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter, and you can also take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 26 May 2021
