The Antibody Society

the official website of the antibody society

An international non-profit supporting antibody-related research and development.

Exciting news – The AIRR Community is turning 10! 🎂

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Join us for “Zooming into the Community III,” a virtual event featuring scientific sessions and roundtables focused on ‘Specificity’.

Register here: May 21 Link and May 22 Link

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!

The Antibody Society (TAbS): Win a FREE Attendance Pass to AET Basel & Present A Poster: Call For Abstracts!

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Are you a student, post-doc, or early career scientist within academia or the biotech/pharmaceutical industry? Do you have a specific research focus related to antibodies? If so, we invite you to submit an abstract related to your research by April 25, 2025!

The abstracts will be reviewed by our judges, and 10 participants will be selected to present posters connected to their abstracts at The Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference in Basel, Switzerland in June 2025. Each selected participant will receive 1 FREE attendance pass to AET Basel!  In addition, some selected participants will be given the opportunity to give a short 5–10-minute oral presentation of their poster (space available).

Abstract Requirements: Provide an abstract below that includes the conference title (i.e., AET Basel),  the title of your research topic, name(s) of author(s), and relevant industry/academic affiliations. Limit the abstract to half a page.

Note: Transportation and accommodation costs are not included in the free attendance pass prize; participants will need to arrange their own transportation and accommodation. This opportunity is not available to those who are currently registered attendees of the conference.

Use the link here to submit your abstract today!

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.