Weekly round-up #121
Weekly Round-up #121
Welcome to VALIDATE's 121st Weekly Round-up. We have an important announcement and the usual collection of news and opportunities for our members!
VALIDATE Summer Seminars 2020
The lock-down has meant that VALIDATE has not been able to organise any face-to-face events. However, we are now excited to announce our 2020 Online Summer Seminars Series! Taking place in June and July 2020, we hope to bring together members from across the world via the power of the internet, and allow researchers to present their findings to the VALIDATE community.
We have scheduled two seminars and hope to add at least one more to the roster soon.
Developing a Vaccine for Melioidosis
Prof Siobhán McClean & Dr Julen Tomás Cortázar
University College Dublin
Melioidosis Subunit Vaccines & Melioidosis and Glanders
Prof Paul Brett & Prof Mary Burtnick
Reno School of Medicine
Host your own seminar
If you would like to share your research through the medium of an online seminar, get in touch and pitch an idea – validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- MRC Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme - The DPFS scheme supports the translation of fundamental discoveries toward benefits to human health - deadline 22 July 2020
- Editing Press - Laura Bassi Scholarship (Summer) - Aims to provide editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study - deadline 25 July 2020
- EDCTP Career Development Fellowships in poverty-related diseases and child and adolescent health - Call for proposals in support of early to mid-career researchers - deadline 5 August 2020
Training Opportunities and Events:
Events are still being cancelled and postponed due to the lockdown so there is not much to report:
- European Bioinformatics Institute: Single cell RNA-seq analysis using R - Cambridge, UK, postponed to 1 - 5 February 2021
We keep the Training Opportunities and Events pages updated regularly.
- Research Associate - University of Bristol, UK, deadline 2 July 2020
Our jobs page has details of all the latest roles you may find interesting.
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LPS restores protective immunity in macrophages against Mycobacterium tuberculosis via autophagy, Frang F et al, in Molecular Immunology
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Effects of Mycobacterium Vaccae vaccine in a mouse model of tuberculosis: protective action and differentially expressed genes, Gong WP et al, in Military Medical Research
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis cords within lymphatic endothelial cells to evade host immunity, Lerner T et al (including VALIDATE member Robert Wilkinson), in JCI Insight
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Granulocytes act as a niche for Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth, Lovewell R et al, in Mucosal Immunology
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Identification of CD4+ T-cell epitope and investigation of HLA distribution for the immunogenic proteins of Burkholderia pseudomallei using in silico approaches – A key vaccine development strategy for melioidosis, Swetha G et al, in Journal of Theoretical Biology
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Vaccinomics strategy to concoct a promising subunit vaccine for visceral leishmaniasis targeting sandfly and leishmania antigens, by VALIDATE Members Rupal Ojha, Rajan Kumar Pandey, and Vijay Prajapati, in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
We update our Publications Page with relevant research papers from our members. If you have any recent publications you'd like to promote, email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Highlights on Twitter this week
We were very busy on Twitter continuing our #HappyBirthdayVALIDATE campaign. On Wednesday, we tweeted our VALID8 interviews with our Network Director Prof Helen McShane and new Affiliate Member Moagi Shaku. On Thursday we highlighted our £800k of pump priming projects and dedicated a thread welcoming some of our newer members including Dr Paramadeep Singh, Shikama Felicien, Olusola Olawale Olaleye, Prof Mario Alberto Flores-Valdez, and Prof Heidi Larson. Also on Thursday, we celebrated our Fellowships by tweeting an infographic about VALIDATE Fellow Dr Rachel Tanner (who then sent a thank you to us). On Friday we shared our new “Why Join VALIDATE” infographic and ended our birthday week by celebrating VALIDATE reaching 800 followers on Twitter! This week we've flagged a Pharma Times interview with Prof Helen McShane and our new pinned tweet includes the "Why Join VALIDATE" infographic. All this and much more @NetworkVALIDATE.
Published: 10 June 2020
