Weekly Round-up #139
It's Collaboration Week! As well as the usual updates, we celebrate a successful VALIDATE Collaboration Workshop.
VALIDATE Collaboration Workshop:
As part of our Collaboration Week, we held a virtual Collaboration Workshop for VALIDATE members on 13th October. Prof Susanna Dunachie gave an interesting talk about her experiences in building research collaborations, following which the 33 delegates split into virtual break-out rooms to discuss possible collaboration opportunities.
We will soon be sharing a Workshop report so we would love to hear feedback from members who attended the event. Do also get in touch if you have any thoughts or ideas about future workshops - validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- Nature - Travel grants for early career researchers - The programme aims to help promising researchers attend a training course or workshop of their choice, that they would otherwise have not been able to attend due to a lack of funds - deadline 26 October 2020
Our funding page is continually updated with any calls we think are relevant to our members.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- Vaccine Confidence Project Webinars:
- COVID-19 and influenza vaccine confidence, Online, 29 October 2020
- COVID-19 and the role of emotions in global health, Online, 12 November 2020
More opportunities are to be found on our Training and Events pages.
Job Opportunities:
- Postdoctoral Training Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute London, UK, deadline 8 November 2020
There are many more relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Predicting toxins found in toxin-antitoxin systems with a role in host-induced Burkholderia pseudomallei persistence, Ross BN et al, including VALIDATE Member Alfredo Torres, in Nature
- Targeting immunometabolism in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Sheedy FJ et al, in Immunology
Highlights on Twitter this week
Write that PhD shared a tool that helps you write a scientific journal article and Oxford Immunotec raised concerns about the drop in attendance at TB centres. We launched Collaboration Week by celebrating some of VALIDATE's collaborative successes including a new consortium that gained funding for the first melioidosis vaccine human clinical trial and our equipment exchange programme. The BSI have opened for submissions for presentations at their virtual conference, while the Crick Institute were promoting their PhD Programme. As part of Hispanic Heritage month in the United States, people were celebrating the work of scientist Jacinto Convit García, who worked on leprosy and leishmaniasis.
All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE.
Published: 14 October 2020