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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!
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.
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.
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).
🎥 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. 💡
Registration for the June 26th (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.
Rohit Singh, Duke University, USA will present “Deciphering Structure-Function Convergence in B-Cell Receptor Repertoires with AbMAP.” Next, Joshua J.C. McGrath, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA will present “Mutability and hypermutation antagonize immunoglobulin codon optimality.”
Visit the AIRR Community Seminar Series website to learn more about this monthly series and access the recordings of past sessions.
Join us tomorrow for our 10th Anniversary AIRR-C online event!
📢 This virtual two-day meeting marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the AIRR Community. Join us for a celebration of the AIRR Community and two scientific sessions on “Specificity.”
⚠️ Service announcement: Each registration day is independent, with its own unique Zoom link! If you’d like to attend both days, make sure to register for each day separately to receive both Zoom links. Just joining for one day? No problem – simply register for your chosen day to get the correct link!
Register here: May 21 Link and May 22 Link
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