Weekly round-up #198
Happy New Year from VALIDATE!
We hope all of our members are looking forward to a productive and enjoyable 2022! We have some exciting plans for the year and we will be in touch as we finalise them.
VALIDATE Mentoring Scheme 2022
Our mentoring scheme 2022 call is now open - and open to all VALIDATE Associates and early PI Investigators. As part of VALIDATE’s aim to encourage Continued Professional Development and career progression amongst members, we have a mentoring scheme in which we partner post-doctoral researchers / early PIs with Senior Scientist mentors from within VALIDATE. Requesting a mentor is open to scientists from all regions but we particularly welcome applications from LMIC scientists.
To be eligible to apply, you must be a VALIDATE Associate or Investigator. Each mentoring relationship will run for 12 months from May 2022. Please note this is our final planned mentoring call. For information about mentoring, how having a mentor can help your career, and how the VALIDATE mentoring scheme works - and to apply to the scheme - please visit our mentoring website.
- MRC Clinical research training fellowship - Apply for funding to undertake a PhD or to reacquire research skills. Your research can focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health - deadline: 12 January 2022
- NIH Mechanisms of Mycobacterial-Induced Immunity 2022 - To support innovative studies to identify and understand the immune responses that mediate protection from Mtb infection or progression to active TB disease - deadline for applications: 14 Jan 2022
- MRC Experimental Medicine Funding Call - Addressing gaps in our understanding of the causes, progression and treatment of human disease through experimental intervention, or challenge, in humans - deadline: 19 January 2022
- TWAS-COMSTECH Science in Exile PhD Fellowship Programme for Displaced and Refugee Scientists - The Programme aims to provide displaced and refugee scholars and scientists who have not yet found a safe and long-term host country to pursue doctoral studies in Pakistan - deadline: 28 January 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:
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- Head of Theme for Data Science, MRC, London, UK, deadline 30 January 2022
- World Vaccine Congress 2022, Washington DC, USA, 18 April 2022UK Cellular Microbiology Network: Exploring The Host-Pathogen Interface, University of Warwick, 21-22 April 2022
- European Melioidosis Congress 2022, Graz, Austria, 16 May 2022
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, United States, deadline: 17 January 2022
- Adult Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM), University of Oxford, UK, deadline 19 January 2022
- Improving the vaccine-induced immune response in elderly: exploration of the mechanisms at play and routes to translational solutions, University of Surrey, deadline 26 January 2022
- High Dimensional Immune Profiling Reveals Different Response Patterns in Active and Latent Tuberculosis Following Stimulation With Mycobacterial Glycolipids, Silva CS, Frontiers in Immunology
- Sociological variety and the transmission efficiency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from 15 communities in Zambia, Murray EJ et al, in BMJ Open
- High throughput single-cell genome sequencing gives insights into the generation and evolution of mosaic aneuploidy in Leishmania donovani, Negreira GH et al, in Nuclear Acids Research
- Protection against tuberculosis by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination: A historical perspective, Setiabudiawan TP et al, in Med
- Immunoinformatics Approach to Design a Novel Subunit Vaccine Against Visceral Leishmaniasis, Lari A et al, in International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics
- Induction of Functional Specific Antibodies, IgG-Secreting Plasmablasts and Memory B Cells Following BCG Vaccination, authors include VALIDATE members Julia Bitencourt, Marco Polo Peralta-Álvarez, Shuailin Li1, Stephanie A. Harris, Steven Smith, Andrew D. White, Iman Satti1 Sally S. Sharpe6, Matthew K. O’Shea, Helen McShane and Rachel Tanner, in Frontiers in Immunology
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 promoted the CISM Website, Laura Portwood-Stacer shared the key components of a scholarly book proposal and we congratulated our former Network Co-Director Helen Fletcher as she takes up her new role with Johnson and Johnson Global health. WriteThatPhD had some advice for writing your first research proposal, the basics of research, finding momentum to start writing, writing strong journal and conference abstracts, and shared 6 virtues to guide researchers. Nature careers had some recruitment advice for institutions, shared a story about anxiety and stress becoming the norm for PhD Students, a guide for developing industry links, and advice for communicating with your PhD Advisor. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 5 January 2022
