Due to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for rapid scientific progress, the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) Community of The Antibody Society held a special event focused on AIRR-sequencing data and COVID-19. The virtual meeting provided recent analyses of the B- and T-cell receptor repertoires of COVID-19 patients. In addition, explored a key objective of the AIRR Community in the context of the pandemic: How the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic might be leveraged to promote the implementation of standards for AIRR-seq data.
For complete details download the full program.
Leveraging AIRR-sequencing Data
to Inform the Biology of COVID-19
A 3-day virtual meeting was held:
Tuesday – Thursday, 8-10 Sept 2020. at 8-11AM PDT / 11AM-2 PM EDT / 5-8PM CEST
Event Recordings: Available on our YouTube Channel
Event Synopsis:
Day 1: How T-cell receptor repertoire data inform the pathophysiology of COVID-19, implications for diagnostics, therapeutics, and/or vaccines – 4 presentations followed by a panel discussion.
Session Moderator & Speakers:
- Lindsay Cowell, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (Moderator)
- Aleksandra M. Walczak, Centre National Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
- Donjete Simnica, Martin-Luther University, Germany
- Pandurangan Vijayanand, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, USA
- Jonathan Carlson, Microsoft Research, USA
Day 2: How B-cell receptor repertoire data inform the pathophysiology of COVID-19, implications for diagnostics, therapeutics, and/or vaccines – 4 presentations followed by a panel discussion.
Session Moderator & Speakers:
- Nina Luning Prak, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Moderator & Speaker)
- Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford, UK
- Kenneth Hoehn, Yale University, USA
- Bryan Briney, Scripps Research, USA
Day 3: COVID-19: A catalyst for the implementation of the FAIR guiding principles* for AIRR-seq data
*See the FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship.
Panel 1 Topic: State of FAIR 2020: Achievements, Catalysts, Obstacles and Risks
Panel Moderator & Members:
- Christian Busse, German Cancer Research Center (Moderator)
- Christine Choirat, Swiss Data Science Center
- Rob Hooft, Dutch Techcenter for Life Sciences, Netherlands
- Eva Maria Moar, EURAC Research, Italy
Panel 2 Topic: How are database providers making COVID-19 data FAIR?
Panel Moderator & Members:
- Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, USA (Moderator)
- Felix Breden, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Patrick Dunn, Northrop Grummon Health Solutions, USA
- Erica Ollmann Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, USA
- Darren Natale, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Panel 3 Topic: Implementing policies to support FAIR data
Panel Moderator & Members:
- Jamie Scott, Simon Fraser University, Canada (Moderator)
- Sarah Callaghan, Cell Press, UK
- Luis Eduardo Coelho Andrade, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
- Joe Breen, DAIT/NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Jake Glanville, Distributed Bio & Centivax, USA
Organized by the AIRR-C Meetings Sub-committee: Davide Bagnara, Pam Borghardt (Meeting Manager), Jean-Philippe Bürckert, Ramit Mehr and Jamie Scott.
Thank you to the AIRR-C Communication Sub-committee for their assistance with this event!
For information about future events contact: meetings@AIRRC.antibodysociety.org.
Past AIRR meetings
You can find information, videos and agendas of the past meetings here: Information on past AIRR meetings
