Weekly round-up #78
We are excited to announce that all the Keynote speakers for our VALIDATE-BSI conference " Vaccine Development for Neglected Intracellular Pathogens" in October are now confirmed:
- Prof Clare Lloyd (Imperial College London) and Prof Tracy Hussell (University of Manchester) will be speaking in the "Tissue-specific immunity, host-pathogen interactions, macrophages and the microenvironment" session
- Dr January Weiner (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology) and Prof Stephen Gordon (University College Dublin) will be speaking on "Biomarkers (including omics & big data)"
- Assoc Prof Paul Brett (University of Nevada) and Prof Mark Hatherill (University of Cape Town) will be speaking in the final session "Latest vaccine developments"
A big thank you to our Keynote speakers for agreeing to give these talks, which we're greatly looking forward to.
For further details about the meeting (and to register), visit the Events webpage. Abstract submissions do close in just two weeks' time on the 17th July, so get yours submitted to us asap!
A reminder that there is also just two weeks left for LMIC members to apply for a Travel Scholarship to cover your costs of attending the VALIDATE Annual Meeting and VALIDATE-BSI Conference (plus the ECR workshop if relevant to you). The travel scholarship call closes on 17th of July, 9am UK time. For further details, visit our Annual Meeting webpage.