Weekly round-up #217
Welcome New VALIDATE Members
We are very pleased to welcome 14 new members to the growing VALIDATE Community. We are always happy to welcome new members, so please let your colleagues know about the benefits of membership and how to join.
Associates
Ms María García Bengoa is a VALIDATE Network Associate at the University of Hannover and LIONEX, Germany.
Affiliates
- Dr Marcia Ashmi is based at the ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
- Miss Alberta Ateere is based at the University of Oxford, UK
- Ms Silvia Calvo García is based at the University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Assoc Prof Joconiah Chirenda is based at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
- Dr Deb Dutta is based at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India
- Dr Tim Fredsgaard-Jones is based at the University of Oxford, UK
- Ms Claudia Guerrero Perales is based at the University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Dr Meera Madhavan is based at the University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Elton Rogozi is based at the Institute of Public Health, Albania
- Dr Hiroyuki Saiga is based at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Japan
- Ms Himani Tripathi is based at the Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), India
- Mr Sujeet Singh is based at the Central University of Rajasthan, India
- Mrs Lindsey Waddell is based at the Roslin Institute, UK
Seminar Today - A Vaccine for Melioidosis? - 13:00 BST
Today, Prof Mukhopadhyay and Dr Dastidar will discuss the prospects for a vaccine for Melioidosis, the disease caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found across tropical and semi-tropical regions worldwide and causes up to 89,000 deaths a year. If you want to join the seminar, email Blakeley - blakeley.nixon@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
- MCR Biomedical Catalyst 2022 - Supporting the pre-clinical development and early clinical testing of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including "re-purposing" of existing therapies - deadline: 25 May 2022
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) accelerate business innovation by supporting knowledge exchange with academic institutions - deadline 15 June 2022
- Innovate UK Smart Grants, 2022 -Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver disruptive R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy - deadline 27 July 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:
- Hospital for Tropical Diseases Monthly Centenary Lecture - Leishmaniasis, Online, 19 May 2022
- flowcytometryUK 2022, Training Conference, Birmingham, UK, 20 - 22 July 2022
Find more training and events opportunities on our Training and Events pages.
- PhD Students in Vaccine Development and Immunology, University of Tübingen Germany, deadline 31 May 2022
- Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Gutierrez lab, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, deadline 28 June 2022
More relevant career opportunities on our jobs page.
- Human infection studies: Key considerations for challenge agent development and production, Balasingam S et al, in Welcome Open Research
- Potential implementation strategies, acceptability, and feasibility of new and repurposed TB vaccines, Pelzer P et al, in PLOS Public Health
- Global epidemiology of leprosy from 2010 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the proportion of sex, Yang J et al, in Pathogens and Global Health
- Defining the Role of Cellular Immune Signatures in Diagnostic Evaluation of Suspected Tuberculosis, Halliday A et al, in The Journal of Infectious Disease
- Whole-genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Cambodia, Edokimov K et al, in Nature Scientific Reports
- T cell transcription factor expression evolves over time in granulomas from Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected cynomolgus macaques, Grant NL et al, in Cell Reports
- Identification of Immunodominant Antigens From the First-Generation Vaccine Against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Germano J et al, in Frontiers in Immunology
- Non-volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath particles correspond to active tuberculosis, Chen D et al, in Nature Scientific Reports
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:
Gulf News reported on the need for childhood vaccinations (including BCG), we congratulated the new president of the BSI (VALIDATE member) Prof Tracey Hussell, and we promoted our upcoming "A Vaccine for Leprosy?" seminar. Nature Careers reported on the challenges women face when building science collaborations and shared a guide for coping when a PhD supervisor leaves. Nature reported on TB as the oldest pandemic in history, the rise of drug-resistant TB, and the methods to decode the biology of TB. VALIDATE member Siobhan McLean was presenting at the European Melioidosis Congress. Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter.
Published: 18 May 2022