AII Newsletter March 2022

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Dear AII member, 

In the first version of this newsletter the picture of Klaas van Gisbergen was shown with a text about Alexander Vlaar. 

Hereby you receive our newsletter of March 28th 2022. We especially draw
your attention to the vacancy for a work student who has an affinity for AII
and can help us with our communication.  

Also, please take notice of the following. As a researcher, you are required 
to include the correct affiliation address on scientific publications. In 
consultation with major publishers, the address line of Amsterdam UMC was 
recently adjusted. Please apply this new address line consistently so that 
the research institutes are more visible in large, international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. 
For the new address rules and examples, visit Literature, Publishing and Pure.

In this email: 
Highlights 
Seminar series 2022 
Grants 
PhD defense ceremonies 
Upcoming events, courses and webinars 
AII/CCA mentoring program 
Update your research profile in our AII database

Highlights

Conny van der Laken has been appointed by the VU Executive Board as Professor of Rheumatology, in particular imaging in diseases of the musculoskeletal system, effective April 1, 2022. She was also interviewed by ZonMw about a special imaging technique she wants to use to detect high-risk patients.

Grants for GLORIA progamme. Internist-infectiologist Vanessa Harris has been awarded a substantial sum of money from Health~Holland to study whether rotavirus vaccines can prevent resistance to antibiotics in children in Zambia and Ghana

Jean Julliard Prize for Alexander Vlaar (amsterdamumc.org). Professor of IC Medicine Alexander Vlaar has been awarded the Jean Julliard Prize 2022.

How do head and neck tumors create an immunosuppressive environment? Head and neck cancer cells release small vesicles, packets of information that can suppress attack by immune cells. Dr. Rieneke van de Ven aims to analyze these vesicles.

New way of collecting data helps responsible use of antibiotics. An important question in the fight against resistant bacteria. The A-team of Amsterdam UMC developed together with RIVM a method to find out via the electronic patient file.

Seminar series 2022

Dario Neri, Antibody-Cytokine Fusions: from the bench to the clinic, Cancer Immunnology program. Young investigator in the spotlight: Dennis Gout. April 5, 16.00 hrs, online. Host Marjolein van Egmond.

The 2022 AII seminar series program can be found here on our website.

PhD defense ceremonies

Marloes Hofstee, Staphylococcus aureus abscess communities and osteomyelitis: host-pathogen interactions in vitro and in vivo, March 31, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel

Sanne de Bruin, Transfusion practices and novel blood products |Pre-clinical and clinical studies, March 31, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.

Sergio Kamminga, Polyomaviruses in blood donors |Detection, prevalence and blood safety, April 1, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.

Nora Wolff, Unraveling the role of the gut and lung microbiome in pulmonary infection and inflammation, April 6, 16.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.

Sabela Rodriguez Lorenzo, The choroid plexus in progressive multiple sclerosis, April 21, 11.45 u, VU aula.

Rosalie Linssen, RSV bronchiolitis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit |Searching for a new flow, April 29, 16.00 u, Agnietenkapel.

Sally-Ann Ohene, Assessing components of the TB care cascade in Ghana, April 29, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.

Upcoming events, courses and webinars

Sanquin's Landsteiner Lecture of Prof. Dr. David Williams, Dana–Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School. “Gene therapy for sickle cell disease”, March 28^th, 13.00-14.00 u, online.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships:  Info session for PIs, March 31, 9.00 u, online.

ASAP Pimp my Monitor: Protocol tips & tricks (in Dutch), April 4th, 12.00 - 13.00 u.

Course: Writing a Data Management Plan, April 19, 9.00 u, online.

Erasmus Immunology Lectures: SARS-CoV-2 specific memory B cells after infection or vaccination: immunophenotype, durability and capacity to recognise variants-of concern, April 19, 11.00 u, online.

ASAP Pimp my Monitor: Safety, safety paragraph and SAEs (in Dutch), April 24th, online

Immunomet 2022, May 11th, in the auditorium of the O2 building at VUmc. .

BioBusiness Summer School, 27th of June until the 1st of July 2022, Amsterdam.

5th Annual Symposium of the Amsteram institute for Infection and Immunity 'Getting it just right', June 23st, 12.30 - 22.00 u, OBA Oosterdok, Amsterdam.

Grants

We are very pleased to announce that, now that travel becomes possible again, the following grants of Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity are open:

AII Travel grant for PhD students to attend an international scientific conference. No deadline
AII Work visit grant for PhD students and Postdocs to visit a research facility abroad. Deadline submission May 1st, 2022
AII Technician grant for technicians to visit a research facility abroad. Deadline submission May 1st, 2022

Calls to be expected in 2022 can be found here on our website.

AII/CCA mentoring program

AII and CCA has set up a mentoring program to couple researchers from all levels with more senior people. The ultimate goal of this program is to make sure everybody gets most out of their academic careers. If you want to participate, please fill in this form.

Social meeting of AII/CCA mentoring program around our one year anniversary, June 2nd, 16.00 - 17.00 u, Auditorium of the 02 Building.

Update your research profile in our AII database

In order to stimulate collaboration within our institute we created a database which will make it easier for our researchers to find and connect with each other based on name, research topic, technology, disease etc. The database is only accessible for the researchers of AII. Information how to log in in the database can be found here. Please add your information to this database, so other AII researchers can find you.

Are you a member at AII and not yet registered?
Please register via our website or this form!

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