Weekly Round-up #133
In VALIDATE Weekly Round up Number 133 we celebrate our final Summer Seminar and you will find the usual updates, events, and opportunities.
VALIDATE Summer Seminar - Efforts to understand the immunology of bovine TB: VALIDATE Member joined Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos and Amanda Gibson from the University of Aberystwyth to ask them detailed questions about their presentations. This rounds up a series of 4 Summer Seminars that started back in July. You can watch all 4 seminars, including Bernardo and Amanda's, by first logging on to WebLearn and then loading the Panopto folder. Members can also request access to the VALIDATE Seminar Google Drive folder (please include your full name and institution on the request note).
We hope to have a series of online events over the summer so if you have anything to present or would like to request a topic, email us - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grants - The awards provide up to £25,000 over one year to support collaborations between developing countries and the UK and to hold networking events aimed at addressing global challenges - deadline 10 September 2020
- MRC Career Development Award - For doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, AHP (& some vets) to establish their own research group - deadline 16 September 2020
- MRC Infection & Immunity Board New Investigator Research Grants, 2020 - for researchers becoming PIs - deadline 16 September 2020
More funding opportunities can be found on our funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- How to win at Twitter, National Institue for Health Research, Online Via Zoom, 10:00 to 12:00 BST 6 October 2020
- Writing for a lay audience, National Institue for Health Research, Online Via Zoom, 10:00 to 12:00 BST 13 October 2020
- How can Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) help reach 2030 targets?, WHO, Online Seminar, 14:00 to 15:30 BST, 2 September 2020
You will find more interesting opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
Job Opportunities:
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Immunology, UCT, South Africa, deadline 15 September 2020
- Assistant/Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA, deadline 26 December 2020
Our jobs page has all the latest vacancies.
- Integrating fish models in tuberculosis vaccine development, Saralahti AK et al, in Disease Modesl & Mechanisms
- Recent advances and new strategies in Leishmaniasis diagnosis, Fortes De Brito RC et al, in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Structural analysis of the N-acetyltransferase Eis1 from Mycobacterium abscessus reveals the molecular determinants of its incapacity to modify aminoglycosides, Ung KL Et al, in Proteins
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv0991c Is a Redox-Regulated Molecular Chaperone, Becker SH et al, in mBio
Highlights on Twitter this week
The RSTH celebrated Togo becoming the first African country to eliminate human African trypanosomiasis, IVVN shared an update of the African Schools Outreach Programme, and Bactivac tweeted a reminder about their Fellowships to support early-career international researchers. The Newton Fund tweeted a reminder about the Newton-Mosharafa PhD Programme, The Union put out a last call for their Online World Conference, and the EDCTP published their August 2020 Update. The Stop TB Partnership welcome USAID's new End TB Campaign Ambassador in the Philippines and Nature Careers asked "Do scientists have a duty to combat fake news?".
Follow VALIDATE on Twitter to keep up to date.
Published: 02 September 2020