Weekly round-up #175

A would have seen on VALIDATE's Twitter, we have been sharing a series of 100 infographics about TB and BCG as part of our activities marking the centenary of the vaccine. We recently reached 50 and will be rapidly firing off the remaining 50 we head toward the anniversary of the first use of BCG for humans on 18 July! You can get involved by retweeting the tweets from the #BCG100Facts thread and downloading and sharing the images from our shared folder. You can also let us know if there are any fascinating facts you think our Twitter followers would find interesting - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Funding:

MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership - MRC are looking for research-qualified (PhD or MD) healthcare professionals to take part in collaborative high-quality research partnerships – deadline 18 November 2021
BBSRC Work with US Researchers - The lead agency scheme allows US and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process by the lead agency - deadline - 22 September 2021
ERC Advanced Grants – These grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they have already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements - Deadline 31 August 2021

You can find a list of all relevant external funding we've spotted for our members on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities and Events:

BSI Virtual Summer School, Online, 14-15 July 2021
BCG Centenary Symposium, Online via UCL and AHRI, 19 July 2021
BCG Symposium, Institute Pasteur De Lille, 17-19 November 2021

Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.

Job Opportunities:

Research Assistant - Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children's Hospital USA, deadline 31 July 2021

There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.

Publications:

Synthesis and comparison of in vitro dual anti-infective activities of novel naphthoquinone hybrids and atovaquone, Erasmus C et al, in Bioorganic Chemistry
Burkholderia species in human infections in Mexico: Identification of B. cepacia, B. contaminans, B. multivorans, B. vietnamiensis,B. pseudomallei and a new Burkholderia species, Meza-Radilla G et al, in Plos Neglected Pathogens
A cytokine Network Balance Influences the Fate of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis Infection in a Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Hamster Model, Paiva MB et al, in Frontiers in Immunology
Multicomponent Gold-Linked Glycoconjugate Vaccine Elicits Antigen-Specific Humoral and Mixed T H 1-T H 17 Immunity, Correlated with Increased Protection against Burkholderia pseudomallei, Tapia D et al including Member Alfredo Torres, in m Bio
Antigen-specific antibody and polyfunctional T cells generated by respiratory immunization with protective Burkholderia ΔtonB Δhcp1 live attenuated vaccines, Khakhum N et al, in NJP Vaccines

Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you have a paper you would like us to include.

Highlights on Twitter this week:

Nature Careers published an article on career insecurity for ECRs, UCL’s TB unit celebrated 100 years of BCG, and VALIDATE Fellow Rachel Tanner worked with Frontiers for Young minds on a resource for teaching young people about BCG. We continued our #BCG100Facts with infographics about TB around the world. Member Dr Alfredo Torres highlighted how Burkholderia remains understudied, The Scientist had an excellent infographic on TB Vaccines pipelines and an article on TB being “the forgotten pandemic”. Follow @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter for all this and more - and take part in BCG100 by using the hashtag #BCG100.

Published: 7 July 2021