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by Edel Aron
The last AIRR-C webinar “Quality Control Pipelines for T cell and B cell AIRR-seq”, by Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz (Sorbonne Universite) and Dr. Nina Luning Prak (University of Pennsylvania) is now available online.
Visit the AIRR Community Webinar Series website to learn more about this series and access the recordings of past sessions.
by Edel Aron
Explore with us the state-of-the-art in TCR-Epitope prediction. T-cells are at the heart of the immune system’s ability to distinguish between self and non-self, playing a critical role in both health and disease. Given the sheer scale of potential TCR-epitope interactions (stemming from both the enormous epitope and TCR repertoire diversity) experimental validation of each TCR interaction is not feasible. This has spurred the development of TCR-epitope prediction models that aim to narrow down the search for immunogenic epitopes, thereby streamlining research and reducing costs. Our webinar “Exploring TCR-Epitope Prediction Tools: Insights and Pitfalls” will delve into these predictive strategies, highlighting their importance in advancing immunological research and applications.
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All three researchers are working under the supervision of Prof. Pieter Meysman, Prof. Kris Laukens, and Prof. Benson Ogunjimi at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
Registration is open. Visit the AIRR Community Webinar Series website to learn more about this series and access the recordings of past sessions.
by Edel Aron
The November AIRR-C seminar is fast approaching! On November 30th at 7:00 PST/10:00 EST/16:00 CET, Aaron Michels of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will be presenting “Temporal Development of T cell receptor Repertoires during Childhood in Health and Type 1 Diabetes” and Julien Limenitakis of the University of Bern will be presenting “Diet and Microbiota effects on the B cell repertoire”.
Register now! The seminar will last approximately 90 minutes.
Visit the AIRR Community Seminar Series website to learn more about this series and access the recordings of past sessions.
by Bojan
Version 22 of the AIRR Community Governance document has passed our internal review and the community feedback process and is now ready for formal ratification by the AIRR Community. A brief summary of the changes to the governance document are outlined in the V20 – V22 comparison document for your reference. AIRR Community Members are invited to login to the Members-only section of the AIRR-C website to access these documents, and then complete the voting survey on the Voting Page. For questions, please contact info@airr-community.org. Please vote today!
by Edel Aron
In the latest episode of the On AIRR – An AIRR-C Podcast Series, Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding speak with Dr. Corey Watson and Dr. William Lees about the recent work by the Germline Database Working Group of the AIRR-Community. We discuss the challenges in creating a database to hold all relevant and potentially relevant germline information, especially in the light of increased discovery rate through technological advances and improved analysis pipelines. We also reflect on the complexity in handling personalized germline reference sets.
You can subscribe and listen in your favorite podcasting app or check out all of the On AIRR episodes here at http://onairr.airr-community.org or on the AIRR YT Channel. If you share podcast-related content in social media, please remember to use the hashtag #onairr!
