Weekly round-up #225

VALIDATE Workshop - Storytelling for Scientists

One of VALIDATE’s key aims is to 'help interested people in the general public find out more about our research and the diseases we’re tackling in an accessible format'. With this in mind, we have asked First Create The Media to provide our members with training on how to best communicate their scientific research to the general public.

In Storytelling for Scientists, 30 VALIDATE members joined Dr Kat Arney as she discussed the techniques of narrative structure and storytelling to to help researchers communicate research in a clear, compelling way.

Future Workshops

So far in 2022 VALIDATE has provided training on Flow Cytometry, Writing Research Grant Proposals and Science communications. We are always keen to hear about what training we can provide our members, so let us know what skills we can help you develop – validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Funding:

The British Academy: Researchers at Risk Fellowships - The British Academy with Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics) is establishing a Researchers at Risk Fellowships Programme - deadline 29 July 2022
Bioinformatics Trainers Fellowship - This is a 2-year fixed-term full-time training fellowship with compensation including a monthly stipend to cover living expenses and support for international travel for training purposes - deadline 1 August 2022
TWAS-CUI Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - For Postdoctoral Research offers fellowships to young scientists from developing countries (other than Pakistan) who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in natural or social sciences - deadline 31 August 2022
Partner with researchers in Canada on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - Apply for funding to establish new partnerships or develop pre-existing collaborations with researchers in Canada on a project relating to combating antimicrobial resistance - Deadline 6 September 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:

WorldLeish7 - Leishmaniasis and conflict, Cartagena, Colombia, 1 - 6 August 2022
16th Vaccine Congress, Lake Garda, Italy, 12 - 14 September 2022
Molecular Parasitology Meeting XXXIII, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, 3 October 2022
Immune surveillance in the ageing microenvironment, 2022, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3 October 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

Communications Science Manager, NC3Rs, London UK, deadline 25 July 2022
Associate/Full Professor - Mycobacterial Research, Colorado State University, CO, USA, deadline 9 July 2022
MSc Course Director (Immunology), University of Oxford, UK, deadline 8 August 2022
Head of the human challenge trial unit, University of Antwerp, Belgium, deadline 11 August 2022

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Combined immunotherapeutic effect of Leishmania-derived recombinant Aldolase and Ambisome against experimental visceral leishmaniasis, Keerti NK et al, in Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
Immunogenicity of a third dose of inactivated COVID-19 vaccine in people living with HIV-1, HBV, and tuberculosis during the Omicron variant epidemic: a cross-sectional study, Yan Y et al, in Journal of Infection
Activation of TLR-pathway to induce host Th1 immune response against visceral leishmaniasis: Involvement of galactosylated-flavonoids, Pradhan S et al, in HELIYON

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:

The ONE Campaign had a guide for spotting misinformation about TB, The BSI had some time management tips for researchers and called for abstracts for their 2022 conference. The University of Cape Town celebrated 100 years of their Faculty of Health Sciences with their “Women of the Future” talk, CreatePhD and LSHTM are developing a programme for African PhD students, EDCTP launched their knowledge Hub, and VALIDATE member Susana Flores was impressed with our “Storytelling for Scientists” workshop. Nature Careers had some advice for organising researcher papers, The Print in India wrote about the impact of BCG in reducing Covid deaths, the India Times reported on why TB still kills millions, and Kenya News reported on a plan to end TB by 2030. IVVN Fellows got together online to discuss women in science, and the Francis Crick Institute has received £1 billion in funding. The WHO released a report on the pipeline of vaccines in development, Alfredo G Tores celebrated a successful collaborated a successful collaboration with fellow VALIDATE members Mary Burtnick and Paul Brett, and the Lancet reported on the Association between women's authorship and women's editorship in infectious diseases journals. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 13 July 2022