June 3-6, 2024
Welcome to the AIRR Community Meeting VII: Learnings and Perspectives Slide and Presentation Recording space. Below, you will find the presentation slides for each day of Meeting VII. Check out the AIRR Community YouTube Channel for video recordings of the presentations.
June 3, 2024
Welcome
Germline Challenge Session
Introduction to Germline Challenge Session: Using IG and TR germline resources for advancing immunobiology (video)
Keynote:
- Prof. Bill Schief (Scripps Research) – (video) Stepping toward an HIV vaccine
Invited speakers and Contributed Talks:
- Dr. William Lees (University of London) – (video) The rapidly changing world of IG/TR germline gene databases
- Prof. Andreas Lossius (University of Oslo) – (video) Immunoglobulin heavy-chain constant gene polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis
- Dr. Yana Safonova (Penn State University) – (video) Comparative Analyses of Immunoglobulin Loci in Mammalian Genomes
- Contributed talks (video)
June 4, 2024
WG & SC Progress Reports & Governance Updates
- AIRR Community WG / SC Progress Reports Overview (video)
- AIRR Community Governance v23 updates (video)
Early Career Event
- Dr. Chaim Schramm (NIH) – (video) Service as an Early Career Researcher: The rewards of being active in the AIRR Community
Software and Tools:
- Lightning Demos (videos)
June 5, 2024
WG & SC Future Plans
- Working Group & Sub-Committee: Future Plans (video)
Basic Science Session
Keynote:
- Dr. Nicholas Provine (Oxford University) – (video) Leveraging single-cell TCR-sequencing to investigate mucosal T cell biology
Invited speakers:
- Prof. Eline Luning Prak (University of Pennsylvania) – (video) Identification of pathogenic B cells in type 1 diabetes
- Dr. Pedro Rogrigues (University of Porto) – (video) T cell selection in the thymus and implications for immune responses
- Dr. Jasmine Rowell (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) – (video) Investigating the foetal and young adult T Cell Receptor thymic repertoires
- Contributed talks (video)
Tools and Technology
- Lunch & Science, Tools and Technology Gold Sponsor Presentations (video)
Machine Learning Challenge Session
Introduction to AIRR-C Challenge Session: Machine Learning applied to AIRR-seq data (video)
Keynote:
- Prof. Jeff Gray (Johns Hopkins University) – (video) Artificial Intelligence Tools for Antibody Engineering
Invited speakers:
- Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford) – (video) Building the toolkit for computational antibody design
- Dr. Niranjani Prasad (Microsoft Research) – (video) Decoding the adaptive immune system using deep generative models
- Dr. Monica Fernandez-Quintero (University of Innsbruck) – (video) Modelling Conformational Dynamics of Antibodies
- Contributed talks (video)
June 6, 2024
Biomedical Science Session
Keynote:
- Prof. Hedda Wardemann (DKFZ) – (video) Single-cell antigen-receptor gene and function analyses for vaccine design
Invited speakers:
- Prof. Benjamin Larman (Johns Hopkins University) – (video) Antibody reactome profiling via self-assembling libraries of DNA barcoded antigens
- Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz (Sorbonne Université) – (video) TCR Repertoire as Biomarker for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases
- Prof. Dmitry Chudakov (Central European Institute of Technology) – (video) Aging and autoimmunity as accumulated errors of adaptive immunity
- Contributed talks (video)
