Year Conference was held: 2018
Years the Conferences has been held: 4
Disciplines: Immunology
Gender Balance/Diversity Statement: None
Registration Cost (US dollars): $190-$350
Total Attendance Cost (US dollars): 500
Travel Carbon Footprint (tons of CO2): 800
Other Carbon Footprint (tons of CO2): 200
Associated Scientific Society/Organization: Institut Pasteur
Approx number of Society members (as of 2018): Not Applicable
Approximate Number of Conference Attendees (Exhibitors included): 400
Geographic Location(s): Milan, Italy, Rehovot, Israel, Paris, France
Years held (Annual, Biannual, Triannual): Biennial
Host, Funders and Sponsors: GCRF Global Challenges Research Fund, EDCTP, University of Oxford, MRC Medical Research Council, BBSRC bioscience for the future, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Digital or Virtual Options: None
Digital Archives (Recorded talks & slides): None
Electronic program dissemination:
On-site Maternity Facilities: None
On-site Childcare Facilities/Services: None
Caregiver Grant: None
Career Development Events and Workshops: Yes (VALIDATE "Post-docing for Success 2" Early Career Researchers Workshop:This workshop aims to help VALIDATE Early Career Researchers (Associate and post-graduate student Affiliate members) widen and improve non-technical skills necessary to progress their careers. This is a small, informal workshop, which will provide lots of opportunity to get to know fellow VALIDATE post-docs/post-grads from around the world. The workshop will be run as part of the VALIDATE Network 2019 Annual Meeting and is a follow-on workshop to our 2018 ECR workshop, and so will contain different information to 2018. Agenda: This one day workshop will include sessions about career planning for success, how to communicate your research effectively, grant writing, and leadership, as well as our highly successful career panel Q&A of senior members of VALIDAT. This session will discuss how to plan effectively for career success, and guide you through some exercises and questions to get you thinking and planning your next career steps. Managing yourself: great leadership, As you step up in your career into roles requiring management, particularly as a Group Leader, how can you be a Leader who inspires, motivates and supports your team to success? How to communicate well around vaccine research, With extensive experience in communications around vaccines, particularly the Ebola vaccine trials in Africa, we will discuss best practice in communicating your research, the risks and pitfalls that can occur with vaccines, and how to deal well with these.Career planning for success , Senior members of VALIDATE from different walks of the post post-doc career trajectory will give short talks about their careers, tips and advice for our ECRs, and then answer questions from our audience about having a successful career in science. Planning and writing a great grant application. As a senior and successful academic researcher, will talk us through how to plan and write a great grant application – from finding your initial scientific idea and finding collaborators, through to what funders are looking for, how to write well, tips for success, and insights from the various review panels she’s sat on.)
ECR Promotion Events: None
Travel Awards for ECRs: Yes (VALIDATE provides around seven travel scholarships each year to enable LMIC Investigator and Associate Network members to attend the Annual Meeting (including the ECR workshop and VALIDATE-BSI Conference in 2019,Up to £3000 per person is available via competitive application to the Network Management Board (NMB). We particularly welcome applications from Early Career Researcher Associate VALIDATE members who do not have their own funding available. If you have received a VALIDATE travel scholarship previously, you are still eligible to apply in 2019.)
Code of Conduct: None
Safety Instructions/Apps: None
Keynote Speaker Gender Balance: Not Applicable to this meeting.
Speaker Gender Balance: Not Applicable to this meeting.
Invited Speakers Gender Balance: 25 Men: 9 Women (Male 70percent/Female 30percent)
Session Chair Gender Balance: 5 Men: 2 Women (Male 60percent/Female 40percent)
Conference Chair Gender Balance: Conference Chairs: 1 Man: 1 Women
Enviromental Sustainability efforts: None
Public Engagement Events Outreach: None
Sustainability Initiatives/Considerations/Green Strategies/Policies: None
Conference URL: https://www.validate-network.org/event/imaging-the-immune-system-2018
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