Weekly round-up #234

Annual Meeting - Register Today to Avoid Disapointment

As you know, the 5th VALIDATE Annual Meeting will be taking place on 7 & 8 March 2023 at BMA House, in the iconic Tavistock Square, London, UK. We have very limited spaces and since we opened registration last week, spaces have been filling up fast so register today! - www.validate-network.org/annual-meeting-2023

We have recently added more detail to the agenda and will be updating the Annual Meeting page as we get closer to the event.

Get in touch with VALIDATE if you have any questions - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Funding:

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
AAS - African Postdoctoral Training Initiative Fellowships - Training early career scientists to respond to Africa's challenges in global health - deadline 30 September 2022
BBSRC Develop solutions for endemic livestock disease - Apply for funding to develop research ideas for addressing endemic diseases in livestock - deadline 6 October 2022
COST Open Call, 2022 - Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe – open until 20 October 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:

Ensuring vaccine quality in Africa: the role of the African Union Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre, Online, 28 September 2022
International Masterclass AMR 2022, Online, 29 September 2022
Working Group on TB - Coffee Corner, Online via Zoom, 29 September 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

Tenure Track Faculty, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA, deadline 14 November 2022
RSTMH Student Ambassador, 2020-2022, RSTMH, London, UK. deadline 31 December 2022.

More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Paving the way to a new class of efficient and safe tuberculosis vaccines: The role of c-di-AMP in Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity and virulence, El Zowalaty ME, et al, in Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids
A specific Leishmania infantum polyepitope vaccine triggers Th1-type immune response and protects against experimental visceral leishmaniasis, Paschoale Ostolin TLV et al, Cellular Immunology
Classical- and bioconjugate vaccines: comparison of the structural properties and immunological response, Roman MR et al, in Current Opinion 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:

Buffalo University profiled researcher Jonathan F. Lovell and talked about his work on TB vaccines, the Global TB Caucus reported on their H20 Summit, and Nature reported that Lab Leaders throughout the world are struggling to recruit Post Docs. A research paper suggests that gender-diverse teams produce more papers and higher impact work, Nature reported that just over a quarter of STEM posts are held by Women, and Immunologist Ane Ogbe wrote an article on the challenges of career progression faced by black female researchers. Chair of the Global TB Caucus Lord Hebert discussed his frustration about politicians assuming TB is a disease of the past, Massachusetts General Hospital has been investigating the possibility that BCG can reverse diabetes and the WHO reported on the global state of TB. Nature published advice for researchers facing online bullying, Gavi reported on the essential role of female volunteers in Lesotho’s vaccine programme and TB News Daily share the highlights of the 3rd BCG Symposium. India is expecting the first TB Vaccine for Adults as reported by the Deccan Herald and Business Standard (who also produced a video). Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 14 September 2022