Weekly round-up #229

VALIDATE 2023 Annual Meeting

The 2023 VALIDATE Annual Meeting will be held on the 7th and 8th March 2023, with an Early Career Researcher Workshop held on the 6th March, so please hold these dates in your diaries - more details to follow!

Funding:

NSG/BBSRC Work with US researchers – For US and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process by the lead agency, on behalf of both NSF/BIO and BBSRC - deadline 21 September 2022
AREF Fellowship - A 2-year fixed term full-time training fellowship with compensation including monthly stipend to cover living expenses and support for international travel for training purposes - deadline 22 September 2022
BBSRC-FAPESP: UK-Brazil collaborative projects - For UK-Brazil collaborative projects; research must be within BBSRC remit – deadline 28 September 2022
ERC Proof of Concept Grants - Funding to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects - deadline 29 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:

International Masterclass AMR 2022, Online, 29 September 2022
Immune surveillance in the ageing microenvironment, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3 October 2023
London Infections & Immunity Symposium 2022, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, 31 October - 1 November 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

Ernst Lab Staff Research Associate, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, CA, USA, no stated deadline
Research Assistant - leishmaniasis parasitology, University of Bern, Switzerland, no stated deadline (roles start 15 September 2022)
Research Technician BSL3- Vance Lab, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Berkeley, USA, 13 September 2022

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Host-Mycobacteria conflict: Immune responses of the host vs. the mycobacteria TLR2 and TLR4 ligands and concomitant host-directed therapy, Kali Prasad Pattanaik KP et al, in Microbiological Research
Protective CD4+ Th1 cell-mediated immunity is reliant upon execution of effector function prior to the establishment of the pathogen niche, Hohman LS et al, in Plos Pathogens

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:

Alfredo Torres congratulated the US CDC on detecting Melioidosis in Mississippi, the VPM1002 vaccine for TB passed an initial safety test (also reported by the Max Planck Institute), and DEVEX reported on the fight against TB in war-torn Ukraine. The BSI promoted grants to support attendance at their 2022 conference and Politico reported on the imbalance of spending on vaccines in rich and poor countries. Nature Careers had articles on PhDs working abroad, using Excel sheets for science research and Write that PhD has some advice for writing a thesis proposal including a cheat sheet). Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 10 August 2022