Weekly round-up #95
We've been busy at VALIDATE this week reviewing all the pump-priming and training grant applications submitted to our latest rounds - news on these awards will be published shortly so keep your eye on our website!
- PhD studentship - based at the Roslin Institute (UK) in 'Modelling bovine TB infection in stem cell-derived macrophages' - deadline 5 Jan 2020
- MRC Confidence in Concept - flexible institutional awards for preliminary translational work - deadline 5 Feb 2020
- EDCTP-TDR Clinical Research and Development Fellowships - funds fellows employed by a sub-Saharan African home organization to be placed in European-based host organizations for training and development - deadline 28 Feb 2020
Find all other funding opportunities on our external funding page.
- International Melioidosis Network Committee nominations sought - deadline 30 Nov 2019
Visit our training opportunities page for further ideas to develop your career.
- BSI/VVN Frontiers in Immunology series: T cell biology meeting - Edinburgh, 2-3 Apr 2020
Visit our events page for all the other events coming up in our field.
- Science Communications & Media Relations Officer - NC3Rs, deadline 26 Nov 2019
- Programme Manager Reporting of Animal Research - NC3Rs, deadline 27 Nov 2019
- Asst Prof in Immunology - Harvard Medical School, USA, deadline 30 Nov 2019
- Lecturer positions - SGUL, UK, deadline 3 Dec 2019
- PhD studentship - The Roslin Institute, UK in 'Modelling bovine TB infection in stem cell-derived macrophages', deadline 5 Jan 2020
To view any previously spotted vacancies, visit our job webpage.
- Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies - in EJI with authors including VALIDATE members Andrea Cooper and Robert Wilkinson
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Incomplete genetic reconstitution of B cell pools contributes to prolonged immunosuppression after measles in Science Immunology
Our publications page highlights papers of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens. If you publish a relevant paper, let us know so that we can highlight it to our members.
Highlights on Twitter this week: an article on human infection challenge studies; IJTLD special TB and lung health content has been made open-access to mark the Union Conference; a CNN article discusses how France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated; DFID announces an international vaccination conference on 3-4 June 2020 to raise funds for immunisations; learn how the MRC grant peer review process works; coverage by the BBC and The Guardian discussing new research that shows how measles wipes out immune system memory (paper above); a BSI video illustrating how vaccines work; a practical 9-point checklist to prepare journal submissions; and further coverage of the M72/AS01 trial results in The Hindu, Telegraph and Daily Mail. Follow us on Twitter @NetworkVALIDATE to easily stay up to date.
Published: 6 November 2019