Weekly round-up #235

We opened registration for VALIDATE Annual Meeting and we are already full to capacity! The VALIDATE Team is looking to see if we can make some extra space. If you still want to join us in London, please join the waiting list by completing the form on the Annual Meeting page - www.validate-network.org/annual-meeting-2023

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

Funding:

BBSRC Develop solutions for endemic livestock disease - Apply for funding to develop research ideas for addressing endemic diseases in livestock - deadline 6 October 2022
20 Oct
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 – deadline 20 October 2022
ERC Starting Gran ts - Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader - deadline 22 October 2022
UK-US research: ecology and evolution of infectious diseases 2022 - Apply to research the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases - deadline 16 November 2022
MRC - Clinical Academic Research Partnerships, 2022 - Offered support for clinical staff to participate in collaborative high-quality research partnerships with established leading biomedical researchers - deadline 17 November 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:

London Infections & Immunity Symposium 2022, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, 31 October - 1 November 2022
HIC-Vac Annual Meeting, East Horsley, UK, 3 - 4 November 2022
The Union Conference - World Conference On Lung Health 2022, Virtual Event, 8 - 11 November 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

Postdoctoral position, infection immunology, University of Basel, Switzerland, No stated deadline.
TB Scientist, The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, No stated deadline.
Technician, Infection Immunology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland, No stated deadline.

Other relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

A subtractive proteomics and immunoinformatics approach towards designing a potential multi-epitope vaccine against pathogenic Listeriamonocytogenes, Shakilur Rahman S et al, in Microbial Pathogenesis
Cytokine patterns in cystic fibrosis patients with different microbial infections in oropharyngeal samples, Mahtab Ghorban Movahed MH et al, in Cytokine

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:

Science Magazine reported on a study that showed that research activities worsen symptoms of depression for graduate students, India Today reported on a potential new TB vaccine as did The Asian Times and Pharmabiz), and the WHO reported that over 1 million children were diagnosed with TB in 2020. BSI promoted their Enhancing Career Grants and celebrated Peer Review Week. Nature reported that women hold fewer science roles and earn less in the US government, discussed what science should do it improve diversity and had advice for what Labs can do to avoid data and information loss. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 21 September 2022