Weekly round-up #115

WHO World Immunization Week 2020

Weekly round-up #115

We hope you enjoy VALIDATE's Weekly round-up #115. We have some new faces to welcome to the network as well as the usual updates on funding and job opportunities.

Welcome new members: 
Our community is ever expanding and this week we welcome three new Affiliate members to VALIDATE:

  • Bashar Haruna Gulumbe is an Assistant Lecturer at the Federal University Birnin Kebbi in Nigeria. Bashar's research focuses is on the intersection of environmental microbiology, public health microbiology, antimicrobial resistance and bacterial stress response.
  • Akinseye Olanrewaju Roland is a Research Officer Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research. Akinseye's interest is in distribution and control of Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis and Onchocerciasis in Nigeria and global health in general.
  • Moagi Shaku is a PhD Candidate at the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Moagi studies the physiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the aim to identify and validate novel TB drug targets.

New members are always welcome, so if you know any colleagues who might be interested, please direct them to our membership benefits and joining VALIDATE pages.

World Immunization Week 2020:
From Friday, we will be supporting the World Health Organization's World Immunization Week 2020 and hope that many of our members will get involved. As well as using #VaccinesWork on social media, you can support this excellent campaign in two main ways:
 
BSI Instagram Campaign: 

You can also contribute to the British Society for Immunology's "a day in the life of a vaccine immunologist" Instagram campaign. BSI are looking for a picture that encapsulates your typical working day (pictures of your lab, a pathogen, field work etc) along with a description of the image and answers to:

  1. What do you work on as a research studying vaccines? What is the ‘big picture’ of your research?
  2. What does your image show? How does this fit in with your typical day?

You can post your submission directly on Instagram and tag BSI or email with a description to Erika Aquino - e.aquino@immunology.org. 

VALID8 Questions: 

Starting during World Immunization Week, VALIDATE will be asking our members 8 quick questions about their work.

  1. What do you do/what do you research?
  2. What do you tell non-scientists you do?
  3. What drew you to studying vaccines?
  4. Why is your work important and what could your work lead to?
  5. What is the most interesting thing you have learned in your job?
  6. What is the best part of your job?
  7. What is the most challenging part of your job or research?
  8. Why are vaccines important (particularly in your field)?

We will publish these interviews on our website and share on our Social Media. If you would like to take part in VALID8, you can email your answers to the above questions to Blakeley - blakeley.nixon@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

 

Funding: 

  • The Royal Society FLAIR Fellowships - Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowships support independent research careers in a sub-Saharan African institution and to undertake cutting-edge scientific research that will address global challenges facing developing countries - deadline 27 May 2020

The following deadlines are upcoming:

You can find lots of further open grant calls on our funding opportunities page.

 

Training Opportunities:

Bothing new this week but you can find all the training opportunities we’ve spotted on our training opportunities page.

Events:

COVID-19 still means most events have been postponed and cancelled.

  • British Society for Immunology Congress 2020 - the UK's premier immunology event attracting over 1,400 attendees to enjoy our extensive 4-day programme of cutting edge research from leading UK and international researchers. (this event is currently going ahead, though due to the COVID pandemic there is updated guidance) - 30 November to 3 December 2020. .

 

We will tweet about any online seminars or lectures that may be of interest to our members, so be sure to follow @NetworkValidate on Twitter. You can also find information on our Events webpage.

 

Job Opportunities: 

Visit our job webpage for further opportunities that are currently available.

Publications:

 

Highlights on Twitter this week: Tips for how to write a clear & focused research proposal for your PhD or Masters degree, and how to write a PhD literature review chapter; an article by Nature 'From academia to industry: seven tips for scientists making the leap'; the discussion of BCG as a defence against COVID-19 continues with the BBC including the debate in a COVID-19 Fact Checking Article; an announcement that the Centre of Science and Industrial Relations in India are starting a clinical trial to investigate whether the anti-leprosy vaccine Mycobacterium w (Mw) is efficacious against COVID-19, and a free to download book on how to write for publication containing checklists, cheat sheets & other tools. All this and more on our Twitter page @NetworkVALIDATE, where we post regularly to give interesting and useful information to our members.
 

Published: 22 April 2020