Weekly round-up #236

We thought we would remind our members that VALIDATE supports an Equipment Exchange scheme, that connects researchers who have surplus equipment they want to get rid of with members who would be able to use the equipment in their lab or clinic. Priority will be given to researchers based in LMICs to receive equipment.

Current request: Our most recent request comes from member Perparim Kadriaj from the Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania who is seeking a PCR machine or Real-Time PCR for use in their vectors control unit. If you can help, email Perparim - pkadriaj@yahoo.com.

Find out more about our equipment exchange, including current requests and how to make your own, on the Equipment Exchange page - www.validate-network.org/equipment-exchange

Funding:

AfOx Fellowship - The AfOx Fellowship provides fellows with an opportunity to work on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based scholars while benefiting from the resources available at Oxford University for research - ongoing scheme
ERC Synergy Grants 2022- Are you a researcher that wants to address a research problem so ambitious, that can not be dealt with you and your team alone? The Synergy Grants could be for you - deadline 8 November 2022
UK-US research: ecology and evolution of infectious diseases 2022 - Apply to research the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases - 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:

TBnet webinar September 2022, Online via Zoom, 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:

MRC Board and Panel Vacancies, MRC, London, UK, deadline 30 September 2022
Research Associate in Immunology, The Hull York Medical School, University of York, UK, deadline 26 October 2022

Other relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Importance of ventilation and occupancy to Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission rates in congregate settings, Deol AK et al, in BMC Public Health
BCGΔBCG1419c increased memory CD8+ T cell‑associated immunogenicity and mitigated pulmonary inflammation compared with BCG in a model of chronic tuberculosis, Kwon KW et al, including VALIDATE Members Cristian Alfredo Segura‑Cerda and Mario Alberto Flores‑Valdez, in Nature Scientific Reports

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:

Poolbeg has signed a Licence Agreement with Prof Siobhán McClean’s team at University College Dublin for a late preclinical stage vaccine candidate for Melioidosis (also reported by Polaris), Nature Careers shared details of a survival guide for Managing your Mental Health During a PhD, and the BSI released details of their 2022 congress agenda. Nature Careers discussed a new agreement that will see teamwork and contributions to science become part of grant assessments and shared a podcast on why midlevel researchers feel neglected. Academic Chatter asked followers to tweet tips for those starting a PhD, Jean Claud Dujardin discussed a new study showing how aneuploidy benefits leishmania and the Mueller foundation reported on the UNGA event on TB. The UKRI has a new search feature for its Grants Finder, we reported on the use of AI in the detection of TB, and science communicator Tessa Davis shared 7 tips to present your data effectively, Reviews in Molecular Bacterial Pathogenesis are looking for submissions of scholarly review papers. Hugh Kearns shared his 7 tips for PhD Students using the #7PhDSecrets hashtag and shared a photo of a strange custom adopted by PhD students at Lund. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 28 September 2022