Weekly round-up #83
Less than 2 months to go now until our 2019 ECR workshop, Annual Meeting and BSI co-hosted Scientific Conference! Places at all three events are filling up, so register sooner rather than later to avoid missing out! Follow the link here to our annual meeting webpage in order to register.
We've had some new members joining this week, so welcome to:
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Investigators: Prof Samantha Sampson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), and Dr Christine Petersen (University of Iowa, USA).
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Associates: Asst Prof Kiran Afshan (Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan), and Dr Ismail Tukur (Zamfara State Primary Health Care Board, Nigeria).
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Affiliates: Dr Yerbanga Serge (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Burkina Faso), Dr Olubukola Adelakun (Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Nigeria), Dr Mohammad Ali (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh), and Mr Joshua Labadah (University of Ghana, Ghana).
- Keystone Symposia Travel Scholarships - To support students and postdoctoral fellows with the expenses associated with conference attendance - closes 8 Aug 2019
- FICCI Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists - To provide opportunity to young researchers in LMICs to improve their capacity building in science and technology - closes 30 Sep 2019
- EDCTP New Drugs and vaccines for priority pathogens in antimicrobial resistance - To provide funding for clinical trials to be conducted in sub-Saharan Africa in order to develop new medicinal products (drugs and vaccines) - closes 7 Nov 2019
- EDCTP Career Development Fellowships To support early-mid career researchers by providing the opportunity for them to train in their clinical research skills - closes 27 Nov 2019
- EDCTP Preparatory Fellowships - in collaboration with the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) - To support sub-Saharan African scientists in receiving fellowships or grants - closes 27 Nov 2019
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
No new training opportunities spotted this week, but take a look at our training opportunities page for further ideas for your career development.
- AMS Winter Science Meeting - London, UK, 31 Oct 2019
- ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics - Kumasi, Ghana, 11-15 Nov 2019
- ACTC 2nd All Africa Clinical Trial Summit - Cape Town, South Africa, 16-18 Aug 2019
And, of course, the VALIDATE 3rd Annual Meeting and open Science Conference in London 1-3 Oct 2019.
Visit our events page for all the other upcoming events in our field.
- Research Group Leaders - Max Plank Institute for Infection Biology - closes 2 Sep 2019
To view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.
- Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate early protective immunity against tuberculosis in Nature
- Crafting Papers for Publication: Novelty and Convention in Academic Writing in Journal of Management Studies
- The current state of animal models and genomic approaches towards identifying and validating molecular determinants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease in Pathogens and Disease
Take a look at our publications page for papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.
Highlights on Twitter this fortnight: Read an article addressing the barriers in obtaining a visa for LMIC members attending global health events; take a look at an open access journal that's publishing articles on lung health and tuberculosis; a PowerPoint guide on how to write abstracts that capture your audience; USAID announced a 5 year, $300 million commitment to the fight against TB; an interesting image of a sand fly infected with Leishmania from a Gnatwork-funded transformative science project; Madhukar Pai's suggestions on future TB conferences; an article on how counsellors gently engage new parents before their doubts on vaccines harden into certainty; and a graphic showing what % of each country disagrees that vaccines are safe. All this and more @NetworkVALIDATE where you can easily keep up to date on news and opinions in our field.
Published: 7 August 2019