Weekly round-up #204

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Friday was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science when organisations around the world demonstrated their commitment to gender equality in STEMM. VALIDATE celebrated the day by relaunching our VALID8 interview series, this time focused on four of our amazing women members. We also tweeted highlights of the interviews on Twitter, and you can find the infographic below (click to read the full interview).

 

  

 

 

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Funding:

• Wellcome Discovery Awards - Provides funding for established researchers to pursue bold and creative research ideas that could improve human life, health and wellbeing - deadline 24 March 2022

• TWAS Awards - The World Academy of Scinecs 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 2022

• BBSRC Discovery Fellowships, 2022 - Fellowship to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills - deadline 5 May 2022

• Surveillance and diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance - funding to develop networks to improve diagnostic and surveillance tools for antimicrobial resistance. Your networks must include experts and stakeholders - deadline 14 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:

• Scottish Immunology Groups Network (SIGNET) 2022, Perth, UK, 2 March 2022

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

Job Opportunities:

• Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Gutierrez Lab, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, deadline 8 April 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, Manojit Bhattacharya et al, in Infection, Genetics and Evolution
• The Mycobacterium tuberculosis PhoPR virulence system regulates expression of the universal second messenger c-di-AMP and impacts vaccine safety and efficacy, Pérez, I et al, in Nuclear Acids
• Publication: Progress toward development of vaccines against melioidosis - A review, MitaliSarkar-TysonPhD et al, in  Clinical Therapeutics

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:

Pfizer UK Celebrated Women and Girls in Science Day and we shared some infographics from last year's celebration and this year's special VALID8 interviews with members Sam Sampson, Thao-Thy Pham, Wal Dutra, and Chyntia Diaz. WriteThatPhD shared some tips for writing scientific papers and some help with using images in publications. We shared the WHO's call to genome sequence the M. tuberculosis complex. Stay up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following  @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.

 

Published: 16 February 2022