Weekly round-up #93

Our 7th round of training grants and 4th round of pump-priming grants are now closed! Thank you to everyone who applied - we wish you the best of luck. The outcomes from these calls will be announced in late November.

We'd like to wish a warm welcome to the newest members joining VALIDATE this week:

Associates: Sabine Wagner-Lichtenegger (Medical University of Graz, Austria).

Affiliates: Isaac Golan (APHA, UK).

Funding:

Daphne Jackson Fellowships - University of York - To support STEM professionals who have taken a 2 year break or longer from their research - deadline 28 Oct 2019
PHE / NIHR Clinical Research Network Award - A chance for ECRs / public health professionals to receive a complimentary conference pass to the Public Health Research and Scientific Conference in 2020 - deadline 8 Dec 2019
BSI Communicating Immunology Grants - To stimulate interest of immunology to a wider audience and support further learning - deadline 15 Jan 2020

Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

The Role of Vaccines in Diagnostics in the Antimicrobial Resistance Response - Online course to understand how diagnostics can be used in both the prevention and treatment of AMR - starts 4 Nov 2019

Visit our training opportunities page for further ideas to develop your career.

Events:

The Acid Fast Club Winter Meeting - London, UK, 8 Jan 2020
2nd International Caparica Conference on Leishmaniasis - Caparica, Portugal, 26-28 Oct 2020

Visit our events page for all the other events coming up in our field.

Job Opportunities:

Daphne Jackson Fellowships - University of York, UK, deadline 28 Oct 2019
Lecturer in Innate Immunology (Ser Cymru) - Aberystwyth University, UK, deadline 18 Nov 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Immunology - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, deadline 30 Nov 2019

To view any previously spotted vacancies, visit our job webpage.

Publications:

Clinical, microbiologic, and immunologic determinants of mortality in hospitalised patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis: A prospective cohort study in PLOS Medicine by VALIDATE members Katalin Wilkinson, Robert Wilkinson and collaborators
Architecture of the mycobacterial type VII secretion system in Nature

Our publications page highlights papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens. If you publish a relevant paper, let us know so that we can highlight it to our members.

Highlights on Twitter this week: Following a detection programme, over 300 new cases of leprosy were identified in the Ganjam district of India; practical tips for PhD students on how to write a doctoral dissertation; the Chennai-based BCG vaccine lab has gained permission to restart mass production of anti tuberculosis vaccines for commercial use; during the last week, the 9th World Melioidosis Congress took place in Hanoi, Vietnam; TBVI and IAVI announce important new updates to the TB vaccine development pathway; Madhu Pai reviews the WHO 2019 Global TB Report and FIND discuss how the report shows that we are closing the gap on missing people with TB; how Brexit uncertainty has adversely affected the UK science funding and workforce; an animation made by Robert Rohde explaining herd immunity; scientists from the University of St Andrews have been awarded £1.1m to help tackle food security and health challenges in East Africa, with part of the focus being directed towards the accuracy of TB diagnostics; advice on how to prepare for & present at your PhD viva; 1/3 of France believes vaccines are unsafe so Alex Whiting discusses how France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated; Wiley has curated a collected of the top papers showcasing recent research in immunology & disease; and Devex discuss how a TB funding gap persists despite new treatment and diagnostic technologies. Follow our Twitter feed @NetworkVALIDATE to easily stay up to date.

Published: 23 October 2019