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Executive Sub-Committee

The Executive Sub-Committee provides leadership, oversees manuscript endorsements, receives reports from WG’s and other SC’s, manages votes and elections, drafts proposals regarding governance, facilitates dispute resolution, and other services to the WG’s and other SC’s.

Members

The Executive Sub-Committee comprises a Chair (Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz, a Chair-Elect (Christian Busse), a Past Chair (Victor Greiff)), and three elected Members of the AIRR Community (Felix Breden, Corey Watson and Gur Yaari).

Christian Busse, DKFZ
Victor Greiff, UiO
Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz, Sorbonne
Corey Watson, UofL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goals for 2024-2026

  • Hold monthly meetings with occasional special meetings involving leadership of WGs and SCs
  • Facilitate and promote the work of the AIRR-C WGs and SCs
  • Contribute to outreach efforts including commercial and academic partnerships that lead to greater sharing, annotation and standardization of AIRR-seq data
  • Contribute to the AIRR-C Strategic Plan 
  • Contribute to sustainability of AIRR-C efforts (funding, sponsors)
  • Ensure community independence
  • Finalize governance
  • Represent the AIRR-C on the TAbS Board of Directors and Finance & Audit Committee

Contact Us

exec@airrc.antibodysociety.org

AIRR Community Executive Director

As the AIRR Community Executive Director, Pam Borghardt supports the AIRR Community and particularly the Executive Sub-Committee by helping to foster an environment that encourages transparency, good communication and interaction across the Community. She works to ensure governance requirements are met and opportunities are leveraged by maintaining a thorough understanding of WG and SC priorities and their volunteer expertise. Her outreach role includes the development of relationships with sponsors and other potential stakeholders. Pam is an active liaison between the AIRR Community and The Antibody Society and coordinates AIRR-C fundraising activities with the Society Senior Management and the AIRR-C Executive SC.

She can be contacted at executive-director@airr-community.org.

AIRR Community News

Zooming into the Community III — A Milestone Virtual Gathering!

June 3, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

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 […]

Register now for the June 26th AIRR Community Seminar Series

June 3, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

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 […]

AIRR Community WG Calls

All times are in ET (Americas/New York)

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Call - Standards WG
12:00
Thu, June 12, 2025
Call - Standards WG
14:00
Mon, June 16, 2025
AIRR-C Executive Council Meeting
11:00
Thu, June 19, 2025
Call - Comms & Meetings SC
12:00
Fri, June 20, 2025
AIRR Community Seminar Series
10:00
Thu, June 26, 2025

Recent AIRR Publications

Lees W.D. et al. AIRR Community curation and standardised representation for immunoglobulin and T cell receptor germline sets (Immunoinformatics, 2023)

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