Weekly round-up #215

VALIDATE ECR Summer Showcase
One of the core aims of VALIDATE is to help support you in your career progression. To this end we want to host an ECR Summer Showcase series of seminars, so we are looking for VALIDATE Associates who would like to give a 15-minute presentation about their research. We hope that this will be a great opportunity for you to showcase your research to other VALIDATE members worldwide, promoting yourself amongst the network and perhaps even inspiring new collaborations.

Interested? Get in touch! - If you would like to present in the Showcase, get in touch today. Email Blakeley - blakeley.nixon@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Funding:

Surveillance and diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance - Funding to develop networks to improve diagnostic and surveillance tools for antimicrobial resistance - deadline 14 June 2022
NRF DAAD Scholarship and Fellowships - Scholarships for South African citizens and permanent South African residents for postgraduate studies at public South African universities – 30 June 2022
NIH Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program - Encourages joint applications for the Global Infectious Disease (GID) Research Training programs from the US and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions – deadline 3 July 2022

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:

Immunology2022, Portland, OR, USA, 16 May 2022
European Melioidosis Congress 2022, Graz, Austria, 16 -18 May 2022

Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.

Job Opportunities:

Faculty Position in Global and Emerging Bacterial Infections, Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA, deadline 4 May 2022

Many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Proteomic networks associated with tumor-educated macrophage polarization and cytotoxicity potentiated by heat-killed tuberculosis, Putri D U et al, in Nature Scientific Reports
The adjuvant effects of rapamycin, metformin and aspirin on the T-cell immunological memory induced by tuberculosis subunit vaccine, Zhang Y et al, in Nature Scientific Reports (preprint)

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:

A study on granulomas is providing some valuable insight for TB vaccine research was reported by News Science and Science Daily. ILiAD Biotechnologies has received an NIH Grant to develop a novel tuberculosis vaccine and we shared a video Q&A with Lucica Ditui from the Stop TB Partnership. We also shared some excellent videos from the WHO on global immunization and TB vs COVID vaccines. Times Now News India had a special for World Immunization week about the vaccines that eradicated deadly diseases, Nature Careers latest podcast episode was on science in Africa, and Nature Medicine share stories from ECRs from various fields (including immunology). We shared an article from Free Malaysia Today about the status of TB and vaccines in the country and Economic Times India reported a request for the emergency use authorisation of the rBCG tuberculosis vaccine. Science Daily reported on new information about how BCG works and Forbes reported on the impact of COVID on the TB pandemic. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 4 May 2022