The AIRR Community Diagnostics Working Group is excited to announce “On AIRR” – a new podcast series.
The series aims to disseminate the goals and values of the Community, with a focus on their application to diagnostics and other clinical applications. We are committed to presenting conversations with a diverse group of experts, and gathering the attention of a broad audience, including students, and researchers from both industry and academia.
If you have questions for our next guest, suggestions for guests that you would like us to invite, or interesting topics to discuss, send us an email at onairr@airr-community.org.
If you share podcast-related content in social media, please use the hashtag #onairr.
Upcoming Podcasts
| Podcast | Date | Description |
Podcast Episodes
| Podcast | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S01e04 | April 2022 | Title: onAIRR 4: Understanding and engineering immune repertoires with Dr. Jacob Glanville Guest: Dr. Jacob Glanville Hosts: Ulrik Stervbo and Zhaoqing Ding Summary: Dr. Jacob Glanville is founder and CEO of Centivax and founder of Distributed Bio, acquired by Charles River in 2021. His work focuses on understanding and engineering the repertoires of T and B cells to improve the response to pathogens. In this episode we discuss how to analyze receptor specificity and use this to create therapeutic antibodies and optimize vaccine response. |
| s01e03 | March 2022 | Title: onAIRR 3: Outlining chronic lymphocytic leukemia with Dr. Anton Langerak Guest: Dr. Anton Langerak Hosts: Ulrik Stervbo and Zhaoqing Ding Summary: Anton Langerak is Professor and head of Laboratory Medical Immunology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, Netherlands and chair of coordination of the EuroClonality-NGS working group. He has been working on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) for many years and in this episode we discuss the signatures of B cell receptors in CLL. |
| s01e02 | February 2022 | Title: onAIRR 2: Establishing an AIRR-Seq framework with Dr. Lindsay Cowell Guest: Dr. Lindsay Cowell, PhD., Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Hosts: Ulrik Stervbo and Nidhi Gupta Summary: In this episode, we discuss the interest of Lindsay Cowell from UT Southwestern in creating a framework to enable deeper understanding of AIRR-Seq in health and disease. |
| s01e01 | January 2022 | Title: onAIRR 1: MRD with Dr. Luning Prak Guest: Dr. Eline T. Luning Prak, MD, PhD. Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Hosts: Ulrik Stervbo and Nidhi Gupta Summary: We talk a bit about the AIRR-Community but mostly we discuss diagnosis of B or T cell malignancies and minimal residual disease evaluation and tracking of B cell clones in autoimmunity. |
