Weekly round-up #203

Welcome new members

It has been a busy 2022 so far and we are happy to welcome 24 new members to VALIDATE.

Dr Nancy Hilda is a Scientist at the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India.
Ms Jemima Chase is a student at the University of Oxford, UK.
Ms Rebecca Perez is a student at the University of Oxford, UK.
Dr Lahari Das is a Microbiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA.
Dr Hedwin Kitdorlang Dkhar is an Assistant Scientist at Emory University, USA.
Ms Hannah Scott is a Junior Project Manager at the University of Oxford, UK.
Mr Robert Mitchell is a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, UK.
Dr Samia Rourou is a Scientist at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia.
Prof Makram Essafi is a Professor of Immunology at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia.
Asst Prof Chaouki Benabdessalem is an Assistant Professor at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia.
Dr Alya Soudani holds a PhD in Biology and Molecular Biology and is based at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia.
Ms Magdalena Godkowicz is a PhD student at the University of Łódź, Poland.
Ms Imke Hinrichs is a student at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr Margaret Nolan is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Dr Naomi Daniels is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Dr Yumiko Tsukamoto is a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan.
Assoc Prof Simone Joosten is an Immunologist at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
Ms Naima Nur is a Research Assistant at North South University, Bangladesh.
Asst Prof Nargis Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Dr Paula Niewold is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
Dr Zaynab Mousavian is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Ms Gillian Singh is a Scientist at Antibody Analytics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Ms Rebecca Clark is a Doctoral Student at LSHTM, UK.
Mr Peter Jensen is a Director of Norvax UK Ltd.

Check out their profile, get in touch, and form your next research collaboration. If a member has not shared their contact details, email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk, and we can pass on your details.

Funding:

TWAS Awards - The World Academy of Scienecs provides nine awards to individual scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years. The cycle of the TWAS Awards is now every two years - deadline 30 March 2021
Infections and Immunity New Investigator - The new investigator research grant is aimed at researchers who are capable of becoming independent principal investigators and who are now ready to take the next step towards that goal - deadline 11 May 2022
MRC Infections and Immunity Programme - Apply for funding for research projects focused on infections and immunity - deadline 11 May 2022
NRF DAAD Scholarship and Fellowships - scholarships for postgraduate studies at public South African universities - deadline 30 June 2022

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:

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

ALIVE 2022, Meliá Costa del Sol, Málaga, Spain,31 March - 2 April 2022
13th Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Immunology, Varadero, Cuba, 6 - 10 June 2022
European Melioidosis Congress, Graz, Austria, 16 -18 May 2022

Job Opportunities:

Research Fellow: Computational Modelling in Immunology of Tuberculosis, University of Michigan, USA, deadline 19 March 2022

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

Publications:

TN strain proteome mediated therapeutic target mapping and multi-epitopic peptide-based vaccine development for Mycobacterium leprae, Bhattacharya M et al, in Infection, Genetics and Evolution
Potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis chorismate mutase (Rv1885c) as a novel TLR4-mediated adjuvant for dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy, Jeong H et al, in Oncoimmunology

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:

The LSE Impact blog had an interesting article on the effect of the pandemic on ECRs, ScienceNorway had information on a new TB vaccine that could also act as a treatment, and the Microbiology Society open up nominations for their 2022 Lecture Prize. Know Your Vaccines had some engagement information about vaccine ingredients, and write that PhD had 10 simple rules to improve writing productivity. We celebrated as VALIDATE member Dr Maria Elena Bottazzi was nominated for a Nobel Prize by a US congresswoman and fellow nominee Peter Hotez spoke about NTDs on the New England Biolabs Podcast. United Against NTDs shared infographics on the economic impact of and lack of funding for Neglected tropical diseases. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

Published: 9 February 2022