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“Building Scientific Communities – Lessons Learned with AIRR”

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AIRR-C Executive Sub-committee member Christian Busse gave a talk at the deRSE2019 (Konferenz für ForschungssoftwareentwicklerInnen in Deutschland – Conference for software engineers in Germany) on building scientific communities using the AIRR-C as an example.

Check out his talk here: https://doi.org/10.5446/42486.

Successful AIRR Community Meeting IV

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The fourth AIRR Community meeting (#AIRRC4) took place at the University of Genoa, May 11–15, 2019, in an unusual and gorgeous location. All talks were held in a 17th century church that has been repurposed for conference settings. The overarching theme of this meeting was “Bridging the Gaps” which aimed to address technological gaps between the amounts of accumulated data and our ability to process them, and the need for more involvement of stakeholder communities (industry, clinicians, patient communities) for the dissemination and implementation of the standards developed by the AIRR Community. 

AIRR Community meetings are the premier event for research on adaptive immune-receptor repertoires. They are also the primary location where the AIRR-Community’s Working Groups and Sub-committees come together in one location to discuss how to push standardization in AIRR-sequencing (AIRR-seq) data and analysis forward.  All meeting documents, slides, and video recordings can be found here:
https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/meetings/communityiv/

Just like the biology of immune repertoires is high-dimensional, this meeting’s success was as well!  We gathered some of the numbers that best describe the success of the AIRR C IV meeting.

  • 2 Keynote speakers: Sai T. Reddy (ETH, Zürich, CH), Antonio Lanzavecchia (Instituto di Ricerca in Biomedicina, Bellinzona, CH)
  • 154 attendees from 5 continents and 22 countries
  • 18 invited speakers
  • 15 sponsors
  • This was the first time a twitter hashtag was used for an AIRR Community Meeting
  • Two pre-meeting workshops were held, teaching the basics of immunology, and of AIRR-seq data analysis 
  • AIRR-seq Tool demonstrations and Pipeline and Data Repository tutorial sessions were held

 

 

AIRR Community Meeting IV at the University of Genoa – Save the date!

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AIRR Community Meeting IV: Bridging the Gaps
11-15 May 2019, University of Genoa, Italy

Invitation and Meeting Agenda

Information on past AIRR meetings

The theme of this meeting, “Bridging the Gaps” addresses technological gaps between the amounts of accumulated data and our ability to process them, and the need for more involvement of stakeholder communities (industry, clinicians, patent communities) for uptake of the standards developed by the AIRR Community. We have confirmed two outstanding Keynote speakers – Dr. Sai Reddy from ETH Zurich and Dr. Antonio Lanzavecchia from IRB Bellinzona. Two planned panel discussions will include representatives from other institutions and companies that work with AIRR-seq data. In addition, two “challenge” sessions are planned to address the above-mentioned gaps. Two pre-meeting workshops will be available to teach the basics of immunology, and of AIRR-seq data analysis for beginners. Also planned are two poster sessions; and two tool and software demos sessions.

 

Stay tuned for more information!