Weekly round-up #98

If you would like a mentor in 2020, you will be glad to hear that our mentoring call is now open for all post-doc and early-stage principal investigator members to apply! Find out how a mentor could benefit your career and research, details on how to apply, and a list of our available mentors, on our website. The deadline for applications is the 27th of January 2020 with the mentoring relationship running from March 2020 to February 2021.

We've also added some fantastic videos from our 2019 events, including the 2nd Early Career Researcher Workshop, 3rd Annual Meeting and VALIDATE-BSI Conference, to the VALIDATE YouTube Channel. Do take a look and see what we got up to this year (and whether we managed to snap you if you were at these events!). A big thank you to the network members who gallantly allowed us to interview them about VALIDATE and include these clips in our videos - you all did a brilliant job!

Funding:

Wellcome Biomedical Resource Grants - For researchers who want to establish new biomedical resources or substantially enhance existing ones - deadline 9 Jan 2020
Hamied Foundation UK-India AMR Visiting Professorships - To support the travel and subsistence costs of UK researchers wishing to visit India to develop collaborations in the field of biomedical research - deadline 14 Jan 2020
Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health - Recruits six students a year for a four year programme providing interdisciplinary training in all aspects of infectious disease research - deadline 14 Jan 2020

Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

Nothing new this week, but take a look at our training opportunities page for ideas for your career development.

Events:

The Early Career Microbiologists' Forum (ECM) Summer Conference - Glasgow, UK, 25-26 Jun 2020

Visit our events page for all the other upcoming events in our field.

Job Opportunities:

Early Stage Researcher (PhD) Positions in Vaccine Research - BactiVax, across eight different European countries, deadline 31 Dec 2019
Research Fellow & Assistant Professor in TB Vaccine Modelling - LSHTM, UK, deadline 5 Jan 2020
Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health - University of Edinburgh, UK, deadline 14 Jan 2020

To view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.

Publications:

Development of a diagnostic compatible BCG vaccine against Bovine tuberculosis in Scientific Reports, by VALIDATE members Simon Clark, Ann Rawkins (Williams), Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos and Johnjoe McFadden
New vaccines against tuberculosis in Federal Health Gazette Health Research Health Protection [in German]
Peptide-based vaccine successfully induces protective immunity against canine visceral leishmaniasis in npj Vaccines

Take a look at our publications page for papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.

Highlights on Twitter this week: The EU Commissioner for Health, Vytenis Andriukaitis, explains why he will always be a vaccine advocate; The Lancet Infectious Diseases' December issue is now online; a Q&A with Prof Heidi Larson on vaccine hesitancy; advice on writing the methods chapter of your PhD and tips for writing the discussion and conclusion of your PhD; Nature discusses correctly using statistical significance in scientific research; Chris Smith at LSE shares six academic writing habits that will boost productivity; the Daily Mail picks up the bovine TB paper above and discusses this as a solution to the UK badger cull; and W. Henry Boom and a USA/Uganda team receive a $30-million NIH grant to accelerate TB vaccine development. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE where you can easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.

Published: 4 December 2019