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Register now for the September 25th AIRR Community Seminar Series

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Registration for the September 25th (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.

Duane Wesemann, Harvard University, USA will present “The evolutionary reach of antibody somatic hypermutation.” Next, Joakim Nøddeskov Clifford, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark will present “Predicting antibody-specific targets with Structural Modelling and Predicted Epitope-Guided Spatial Restraints.”

REGISTER NOW!

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

Watch Now – Zooming into the Community III Recordings

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Missed the AIRR Community’s Zooming into the Community III 10th Anniversary virtual meeting? The full session recordings are now available on our AIRR Community YouTube Channel.

Enjoy two days of presentations, discussions, and anniversary celebrations, including updates from our Working Groups and Sub-Committees, scientific sessions on immune receptor specificity, and keynote talks from leading experts in the field.

Save the Date: AIRR Community Meeting VIII: June 8–11, 2026 at Yale!

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We are thrilled to announce that the AIRR Community Meeting VIII will be held at Yale University from June 8 to 11, 2026!

Theme: Decoding and Recoding Immunity
Join us for four days of cutting-edge talks, discussions, and community-building centered on immune receptor research.

📍 Yale University, Connecticut
📅  June 8–11, 2026

Stay tuned — more details on registration, abstract submissions, and program highlights coming soon!

New episode of the On AIRR podcast is here!

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In this episode of On AIRR, we welcome Dr. Paul Thomas, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Dr. Thomas shares his journey from immunoparasitology to pioneering TCR repertoire sequencing. The discussion covers the evolution from single-chain TCR sequencing to the development of high-throughput paired sequencing methods, culminating in the TIRTL-seq approach. Dr. Thomas explains the technical and computational challenges in TCR pairing, the innovations that made large-scale studies possible, and the importance of data quality and curation in the field. The episode highlights the impact of these advances on understanding immune responses and the future of AIRR-based diagnostics.

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

Zooming into the Community III — A Milestone Virtual Gathering!

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On May 21–22, 2025, the AIRR Community came together for our third “Zooming into the Community” virtual meeting, celebrating 10 years of collaborative science and innovation in immune receptor research.

📊 Attendance Highlights:

  • Day 1: 106 registered / 68 attendees
  • Day 2: 131 registered / 82 attendees

This year’s mid-cycle event, themed “Specificity”, sparked critical discussion on defining, measuring, and curating immune receptor specificity. A big thanks to the organizers of the event, the joint Meetings & Communications Sub-Committee, who were building on the success of our past events (Special Event “Response to COVID-19” and Zooming II).

🧠 Event Highlights:

  • Presentations from AIRR Working Groups, Review-Committees, and Sub-Committees on key developments and future directions
  • A special General Assembly celebrating our 10-year anniversary
  • Outstanding invited speakers:
    • Antonio Lanzavecchia (INGM, Italy)
    • Victor Greiff (University of Oslo, Norway)
    • Maria Rodriguez Martinez (Yale University, USA)
    • David Klatzmann (Sorbonne Université, France)

🎥 Missed it? Sessions were recorded and will be available soon on the AIRR Community YouTube Channel.

📖 Want to read more? See the event page here.

Thanks to all who participated and contributed to this vibrant community event! Here’s to another decade of discovery. 💡