Weekly round-up #170
TB and the Use of BCG in Animals: Does it matter to people - 18:00 BST, 9 June 2021
Next week, VALIDATE will hold its second public lecture as part of the BCG100 Campaign.It’s been over a century since the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) was first used in cattle. After initial widespread use, the practice was replaced with a test and cull approach halfway through the twentieth century. However, the emergence of wildlife reservoirs of TB and the recognition that test and cull strategies are not possible in many countries has led scientists to re-evaluate the use of BCG in animals. In this talk Prof Michele Miller and Prof Glyn Hewinson will discuss why effective vaccine programmes for animals are essential to the health and wellbeing of humans and the challenges that we still face in making such programmes a reality.
This will not only be a great event for VALIDATE members but will also be suitable for non-scientists, so please help us spread the word by sharing the link with your friends, family, students or anyone interested in science.
The event will take place online on 9 June 2021 at 18:00 BST and you can register now - www.validate-network.org/event/bcg100-animals
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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 – 4 June 2021
- The PASIFIC Fellowship Programme - A unique opportunity for researchers who want to undertake state-of-the-art research in a dynamic scientific environment. It will enable scholars of all nationalities and across all scientific disciplines to establish their scientific independence and con – 15 June 2021
- NIH Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets for Advancing Infectious Disease Research - To support projects that utilise open-access data to address knowledge gaps in basic/clinical research of infectious disease – 16 June 2021
- Wellcome - Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science, 2021 - This scheme supports postdoctoral researchers in health-related humanities and social sciences who do not hold established academic posts – 16 June 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:
- Advanced TB Diagnostics, McGill University, Online Training Course, 7 June 2021
- BSP Parasites Online 2021, Online, 21 June 2021
- Seventh International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis, Galway, Ireland, 7 June 2022
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
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Data Manager in Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), University of Oxford, UK, 3 June 2021
- Research Associate in Immunometabolism, University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine, UK, 3 June 2021
- Regional Programme Manager – Midlands, Medical Research Council, Leicester, UK, Deadline 9 June 2021
- Research Assistant I - Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston USA, No stated deadline
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Multi-antigen Vaccination with LPD Nanoparticles containing rgp63 and rLmaC1N proteins induced effective immune response against leishmaniasis in animal model, Zamani P et al, in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology
- Co-Administration of Anticancer Candidate MK-2206 Enhances the Efficacy of BCG Vaccine Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mice and Guinea Pigs, Bouzeyen R et al, in Frontiers in Immunology
- Flow cytometry method for absolute counting and single-cell phenotyping of mycobacteria, Barr DA et al, in bioRixv
- Sterilizing immunity: New opportunities for rational TB vaccine design, Sher A et al, in the Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Mining the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome for identification of potential T-cell epitope based vaccine candidates, Madan R et al, in Microbial Pathogenesis
- Geographical distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in soil in Myanmar, Maung Swe MM et al, in Plos NTD
- Adjuvant effects of TLR agonist gardiquimod admixed with Leishmania vaccine in mice model of visceral leishmaniasis, Goyal DK et al, in Genetics, Infection and Evolution
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 continued sharing our #BCG100Facts with infographics on Tom Jones and Desmond Tutu. LSE had some advice for using Twitter data for research and the Oxford Vaccine Group shared an article about the importance of well-designed vaccine regimens. Nature Careers reminded us of their webinar on coding, shared 100 memes about defending a PhD thesis and had some helpful advice for crafting presentations. Researcher Anna Pineda shared her experience of getting published in Nature and some of the resources she used. Morteza Mahmoudi shared the outcomes of our global survey on academic bullying and LSHTM talked about the lack of vaccine candidates for TB compared to TB. Write That PhD once again had some great advice, this time on making communication accessible and writing journal introductions, abstracts and results sections. Finally, the Lepra Society has been encouraging those who experience leprosy to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter and part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.
Published: 2 June 2021
