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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 Starts Tomorrow!

May 20, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

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! […]

New episode of the On AIRR podcast is here!

March 25, 2025 By Lorissa Corrie

In this episode of On AIRR, we welcome Dr. Bjoern Peters, Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, to discuss the crucial role of high-quality data in AI-driven immunological predictions and diagnostics. Dr. Peters shares his journey from theoretical physics to MHC-binding prediction, leading to his work on the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) — […]

AIRR Community WG Calls

All times are in ET (Americas/New York)

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Webinar - Zooming into the AIRR Community III
11:00
Wed, May 21, 2025
Webinar - Zooming into the AIRR Community III
11:00
Thu, May 22, 2025
Call - ComRepo WG
11:00
Thu, June 5, 2025
Call - Standards WG
12:00
Thu, June 12, 2025
Call - Standards WG
14:00
Mon, June 16, 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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