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AIRR Community Meeting VI Event Information – May 17-19, 2022

January 13, 2022 by Pam Borghardt

The AIRR-C Meetings Sub-committee is pleased to share information about the upcoming AIRR-C VI Meeting which will take place in beautiful La Jolla, California, from May 17th to 19th, 2022.

Please save the date (if you haven’t already) and watch for the launch of the registration platform in early March.

This meeting will include many exciting, collaborative and mentoring activities and we are seeking your interest and participation!

We are excited to announce our keynote presenters:

Dennis Burton, Scripps Research
Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, Karolinska Institutet
Shane Crotty, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Atul Butte, University of California, San Francisco

Tool/Software Demos and Tutorial Sessions
These sessions will be a great opportunity for you and your team to promote your tools and software. If you are interested in either giving a brief overview demonstration or a longer tutorial, please complete this form by January 30th, 2022.

Student/Post-doc Mentoring Session and Match-ups
Are you willing to be a mentor and share your insights and exciting research with the future generation of AIRR-researchers? Please send an email indicating your interest to meetings@airrc.antibodysociety.org by February 15th, 2022. We will have a dedicated session for this activity during the meeting and are looking for volunteers.

Travel Award Grants for Student/Post-doc/Junior Faculty Members
The AIRR-C VI Meetings Sub-committee obtained an NIH grant to provide travel support for up to 10 early career faculty and student/post-doc trainees who are planning to attend the meeting. If you are interested in learning more about the criteria and applying for this opportunity contact meetings@airrc.antibodysociety.org for access to the secure application form.
Competition closes on March 31st, 2022.

Poster Sessions & Short Talks
Our fun and informative poster sessions are back. Start thinking about your poster now! Sign-up for this session will be through the meeting registration platform. Additionally, if you are interested in being considered for a short talk based on your poster abstract, be sure to indicate your interest when you register.

Industry Networking Reception and Sponsorship Opportunities
We will be hosting an industry networking reception. If you or your company are interested in participating in this event or in sponsorship opportunities please contact us at meetings@airrc.antibodysociety.org for further details.

Volunteer Opportunities
The Meetings Sub-committee is looking for volunteers to help during the Meeting with various in-person tasks. We promise lots of fun! If you are interested in getting involved please contact us at meetings@airrc.antibodysociety.org.

More detailed information on AIRR-C Meeting VI can be found on the meeting website.

If you are new to the AIRR Community (or even if you’re not) and would like to learn more about adaptive immune receptor repertoire research through in depth workshop and webinar recordings check out the AIRR Community YouTube channel. 

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AIRR Community and Tsinghua University discuss Chinese research using AIRR-seq data to study adaptive immune response in COVID-19 patients

May 13, 2021 by Pam Borghardt

A meeting focusing on Chinese researchers’ use of AIRR-seq data to study the adaptive immune response – especially in COVID-19 patients – was held recently by the AIRR Community and Tsinghua University.

The purpose of this co-organized meeting was to expose AIRR-seq researchers in China to the philosophy and tools developed by the AIRR Community and help integrate researchers from all over the world through the AIRR Community.

Although collaboration and sharing data internationally is complicated and difficult, this successful meeting was an important step in forming the relationships necessary for overcoming many of these challenges.

Tsinghua University is a major research university in Beijing and a member of the C9 League of Chinese universities. Since its establishment exactly 110 years ago, it has produced many notable leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, academia, and culture. The university is ranked as the 15th best university in the world in the QS World University Rankings and No.1 in Asia by the Asia University Rankings and the U.S. News and World Report.

The meeting followed a hybrid format, combining online lectures by AIRR Community members in the US and Europe in conjunction with an in-person meeting in Shenzhen, China that was organized by Professor Xiao Liu of Tsinghua University’s Shenzhen campus.

The in-person, all-day meeting was held on December 6, 2020 in Shenzhen, which corresponded to Saturday evening December 5 in North America.

The full meeting agenda can be found on the meeting web page and the meeting recording has been posted on the AIRR-C YouTube Channel.

 

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Register now for Pre-Meeting “AIRR-seq in the Pandemic!

November 24, 2020 by Pam Borghardt

AIRR-seq in the Pandemic:
AIRR Community/Tsinghua University Joint Meeting
A pre-meeting to AIRR-C Meeting V: Zooming in to the AIRR Community!

We are pleased to announce a meeting co-organized by the AIRR Community and Tsinghua University, which will mainly focus on Chinese researchers using AIRR-seq data to study the adaptive immune response, especially in COVID-19 patients. This event has been scheduled as a pre-meeting for the regular AIRR Community Meeting V: “Zooming in to the AIRR Community” which will be held virtually December 8-10th, 2020.  Professor Xiao Liu of Tsinghua University is organizing an in-person meeting of Chinese researchers in Shenzen, China on Sunday December 6, 2020, and researchers from North America and Europe will join this group virtually.

The Timeline:
The in-person meeting will convene all day Sunday, December 6th, 2020 in Shenzhen, China.  North American researchers will virtually introduce the AIRR-seq Community approach and present research on COVID-19 during the evening of Saturday, December 5th, including a welcome by the Chair of the AIRR Community Executive Sub-committee, Dr. Nina Luning Prak; Saturday evening in North America will correspond to the morning of Sunday, December 6th in Shenzhen.  In addition, on the morning of Sunday, December 6th in Europe, two members of the AIRR Community will join from Europe, including Victor Greiff; this will correspond to the afternoon of December 6th in Shenzhen. See the draft agenda below for further details on this complicated enterprise!  And please join us if you can, in this international effort to integrate this important sector of the immunogenetics community more closely with the AIRR Community

For complete details and agenda visit the Pre-Meeting web page.

This virtual meeting is free but registration is required.

Please register for this groundbreaking event!

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AIRR Community Meeting V Registration is live!

November 3, 2020 by Pam Borghardt

Please register today and don’t forget to sign up to present at one of the live virtual poster sessions or the software tool demonstration. 50% off registration discount codes were sent to all AIRR members on November 2nd – check your email! Be sure to download the event web app to get the latest updates on speakers, posters and demos.  Looking forward to seeing everyone virtually at AIRR Community Meeting V: Zooming in to the AIRR Community, December 8-10, 2020!

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New AIRR-C Diagnostics Working Group initiated

January 18, 2020 by jpburckert

The idea of a Diagnostics WG originated in May at the AIRR-C IV meeting in Genoa, Italy. The three initiators, Florian Rubelt (Roche Sequencing Solutions), Nicolas Schwab (UK Münster) and Christopher Gooley (Microsoft Research), felt that it was time for AIRR-based diagnostics to make their way into the clinic. The transition from an academic environment to a clinical setting creates new challenges, which will be of high interest within the AIRR Community and beyond. The AIRR-Community has a unique advantage to connect people from academia and industry from around the world and provides a great basis to identify and address these new challenges in the AIRR field. 

A group of interested participants held an ad hoc session at the Genoa meeting and at this point the AIRR-C Diagnostics Interim Working Group has held 9 calls with over 30 participants. Early discussions have revolved around identifying the set of tasks and the format of the group. 

A first agreed-upon product is a commentary about AIRR-based diagnostics. This initial commentary manuscript is meant to introduce AIRR-based diagnostics and the potential future opportunities to a clinical audience. The group has also ran a survey to identify the background and interests of the group. One outcome of the survey was to identify bottlenecks and challenges bringing AIRR based diagnostics to the clinic.

Currently, the AIRR-C Diagnostics interim working group is led by Florian Rubelt, Nicholas Schwab and Christopher Gooley and has more than 60 members.

For more information and updates please refer to the AIRR-C Diagnostics Interim Working Group website.

If you are interested in joining, please contact diagnostics@airrc.antibodysociety.org

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