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New episode of the On AIRR podcast is here!

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In this episode of On AIRR, we welcome Dr. Bjoern Peters, Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, to discuss the crucial role of high-quality data in AI-driven immunological predictions and diagnostics.

Dr. Peters shares his journey from theoretical physics to MHC-binding prediction, leading to his work on the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) — the world’s largest resource for immune epitope data. He highlights how good data often outcompete algorithmic improvements and discusses the challenges of data standardization in immunology. The conversation also delves into epitope prediction, AIRR sequencing for diagnostics, and the need for rigorous model validation in clinical applications.

Listen now via your favorite podcast platform or here: http://onairr.airr-community.org. New episodes will be released monthly.

 

Register now for Zooming into the Community III – A 10th Anniversary AIRR-C Event

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Register Now: May 21 Link and May 22 Link

This virtual two-day meeting marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the AIRR Community. Please join us for a celebration of the AIRR Community and a dive into “Specificity” and what that means via our two scientific sessions and roundtable event.

Event outline:  

  • May 21 (8:00-10:30 PDT/11:00-13:30 EST/17:00-19:30 CEST) will include a celebration of 10 years since the first official AIRR-C meeting and highlight achievements, ongoing projects, and future plans from our Working Groups, Sub-Committees, and Review Committees.
  • May 22 (8:00-11:00 PDT/11:00-14:00 EST/17:00-20:00 CEST) will highlight four speakers in two scientific talk sessions and a round table discussion, focusing on “Specificity,” including how to define it, how to measure it, why does it matter, and how to curate and share data on immune receptor specificity in a FAIR manner!

To find out more information, please visit the event page.

Industrial partners who want to support the AIRR Community meeting please contact Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz (encarnita.mariotti@sorbonne-universite.fr).

Register now for the March 27th AIRR Community Seminar Series

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Registration for the March 27th (4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CET, 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST) AIRR-C Seminar Series session is open. Following the usual format of the series, an established and an early career scientist will discuss their AIRR-seq related research. Note that this is a DST anomaly date so the time is one hour later for North America until the change.

Erick Matsen, Fred Hutch, USA will present “Inviting Darwin into antibody foundation models.” Next, Lena Erlach, ETH Zurich, Switzerland will present “Antibody affinity engineering using antibody repertoire data and machine learning.”

REGISTER NOW!

Visit the AIRR Community Seminar Series website to learn more about this monthly series and access the recordings of past sessions.

Register now for the Feb 27th AIRR Community Seminar Series

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Registration for the February 27th (4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CET) AIRR-C Seminar Series session is open. Following the usual format of the series, an established and an early career scientist will discuss their AIRR-seq related research.

Steven E. Bosinger, Emory University, USA will present “A Broad Survey and Functional Analysis of Immunoglobulin Loci Variation in Rhesus Macaques.” Next, Maria F. Abbate, École Normale Supérieure, France will present “Computational detection of antigen specific BCRs for antibody discovery.”

REGISTER NOW!

Visit the AIRR Community Seminar Series website to learn more about this monthly series and access the recordings of past sessions.

Season 3 of On AIRR is here!

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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Season 3 of On AIRR, the official podcast of the AIRR Community. This season kicks off with an insightful discussion featuring Dr. Thierry Mora and Dr. Aleksandra Walczak —  co-leaders of the Statistical Biophysics Group at Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS (LPENS) in Paris, France.

Dr. Mora and Dr. Walczak, physicists by training, have been pioneers in applying biophysics, neuroscience, and information theory methods to the analysis of the adaptive immune system, particularly in the context of V(D)J recombination. In this episode, they discuss the challenges of quantifying diversity within the immune repertoire and provide an overview of the powerful software tools developed by their group.

Listen now via your favorite podcast platform or here: http://onairr.airr-community.org. New episodes will be released monthly.