Weekly round-up #35

News we've spotted for you this week includes:

Funding:

• MRC: UK-Indonesia Joint Partnership on Infectious Diseases - for three year collaborative projects focusing on infectious diseases of relevance to Indonesia - 26 June 2018
• Chatham House: African Public Health Leaders Fellowship - developing the skills in leadership and policy analysis via networking and mentoring opportunities - 27 June 2018
• OWSD Fellowship for Early Career Women Scientists - post-doctoral fellowships for women scientists from countries where the capacity for science and technology is lagging - 31 Aug 2018
• Wellcome Trust: International Intermediate Fellowships - for LMIC researchers to lead a research programme - 22 Nov 2018
• Wellcome Trust International Training Fellowships - for postgraduate or post-doctoral research by LMIC researchers - 22 Nov 2018

Events:

• 6th European Veterinary Immunology Workshop - Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5-7 Sept 2018
• 1st International Conference on Microbiology and One Health - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 19-22 Sept 2018
• International Congress on Tropical Veterinary Medicine - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23-28 Sept 2018
• Leveraging Genomic Diversity to Promote Animal and Human Health Symposium - Kampala, Uganda, 25-29 Nov 2018
• Frontiers in Human and Veterinary Antibody Discovery - Pirbright, UK, 26-27 Nov 2018
• UK and International Veterinary Vaccinology Network Conference - London, UK, 9-10 Jan 2019

And, of course, don't forget the VALIDATE 2nd Annual Meeting will be held on 6-7 November 2018, with a one day workshop for our Associate members on the 5th. Keep an eye on our website for more details and put the date in your diaries as registration will open soon!

Job opportunities:

• Post-doc (Burkholderia) - University of Nevada, Reno, USA - no closing date stated 
• VALIDATE Network Assistant - University of Oxford, UK - closes 13 July 2018

Papers:

• Novel epitopes identified from Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen Rv2629 induces cytotoxic T lymphocyte response
• Enhancement of Ag85B DNA vaccine immunogenicity against tuberculosis by dissolving microneedles in mice
• All-trans Retinoic Acid augments autophagy during intracellular bacterial infection

On Twitter, we've flagged: a report on the 2 valleys of death in malaria vaccine development (applicable to NTDs too); help from the MRC on GDPR and your research; VALIDATE Co-Director Prof Helen McShane speaking about the current status of TB vaccine development with OpenAccessGovernment; a video by Bill Gates about a revolutionary invention helping store vaccines at the right temperature; and a blog article stating that the economic impact of immunisation shows investing in vaccines is a good deal. Follow @NetworkValidate to easily keep up to date with all the news in vaccine development for our neglected diseases.

Published: 20 June 2018