On AIRR - Immune receptors in the clinic

On AIRR 10: Characterising B Cell Lymphomas or Profiting from a Focus on B Cells in Health and in Disease with Dr. Ralf Küppers

Prof. Dr. Ralf Küppers is the director of Institute of Cell Biology (Tumor Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The work of Prof. Küppers revolves around B cell differentiation and function together with pathogenesis of human B cell lymphomas - both Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
We discuss how micro-dissection and Sanger sequencing is still the method of choice when analysing Hodgkin lymphoma and the V-gene usage and mutations in CLL as prognostic indicators before talking about tracking pathogenic clones when surveying for relapse during clinical follow up. 
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the tag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast. 

On AIRR 9: The ImmunoMind or wielding an AI for repertoire insights with Vadim Nazarov

Vadim Nazarov is Co-Founder & CEO of the startup ImmunoMind. The company focuses on improving the design of adoptive T-cell therapies using multi-omics technologies. Vadim's career began at Dr. Dmitry Chudakov’s Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity, where he developed the now discontinued R-package TcR. The replacement package ‘immunarch’ is continuously developed by ImmunoMind.  
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 8: Engineering B cells or Giving the immune System an Optimal Starting Point with Dr. Adi Barzel

Dr. Adi Barzel is an associate professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Adi is President at Israeli Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
Following Adi’s long standing interest in gene editing, we discuss the therapeutic potential based on Adi’s recent paper “In vivo engineered B cells secrete high titers of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies in mice” (Nat Biotechnol.; 2022; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01328-9). We also briefly touch on a second paper on some of the problems with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing (“Frequent aneuploidy in primary human T cells after CRISPR-Cas9 cleavage”;  Nat Biotechnol.; 2022; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01377-0)
iReceptor Plus Seminar Series - Nur-Taz Rahman from 10x Genomics and Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Laboratory for Human Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan will present on October 27th (https://www.ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-events/seminars/)
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 7: Quality Controls in AIRR-Seq Assays or Handling the Catastrophe with Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz

Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz is associate professor in Immunology at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. Encarnita is Chair-Elect of the AIRR-Community.
The discussion focuses on sample quality and how to assess this. We draw on two papers during the discussion: “Benchmarking of T cell receptor repertoire profiling methods reveals large systematic biases” (Nature Biotechnology; 2021; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0656-3) and “Biological controls for standardisation and interpretation of adaptive immune receptor repertoire profiling” (eLife; 2021;  https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66274).
iReceptor Plus Seminar Series - Xiaole Shirley Liu from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Jeff Ruffolo from Johns Hopkins University will present on September 22, 2022: https://www.ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-events/seminars 
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 6: Data Sharing or Finding Glory, Fame and a Big Pile of Gold with Dr. Brian Corrie and Dr. Scott Christley

Dr. Brian Corrie is a computer scientist from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Brian is the Technical Director for the iReceptor Plus Project, and architect behind the iReceptor repository (https://www.ireceptor-plus.com).
Dr. Scott Christley‬ is a computational biologist from UT Southwestern, Texas, USA. Scott is the software development manager for VDJServer (https://vdjserver.org).
In this episode we discuss possibilities for sharing AIRR-Seq data - repositories and metadata standards describing the samples and experimental process. We discuss AIRR Standards (https://docs.airr-community.org/en/stable) which includes MiAIRR Standard for dataset metadata and AIRR Data Commons, which is an API to query and download data from AIRR-Seq repositories. Complete and proper data annotation will bring fame and glory.
iReceptor Plus Seminar Series - Ning Jiang from University of Pennsylvania, USA presents on July 28th: https://www.ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-events/seminars
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 5: Machine learning and AIRR or Looking for the needle in a needle stack with Dr. Lindsay Cowell and Dr. Victor Greiff

Today we discuss machine learning with Dr. Lindsay Cowell and Dr. Victor Greiff. Machine learning is about pattern recognition and in AIRR-seq the patterns link to diseases and antigen binding. AIRR is nearly a perfect machine learning problem because the underlying patterns are unclear and complex - it is essentially looking for the needle in a needle stack.
Dr. Cowell is from the Biomedical Informatics Division in the Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern, USA and Dr. Greiff heads  the Laboratory for Computational and Systems Immunology at the Department of Immunology of University of Oslo, Norway.
The episode is hosted by Dr. Ulrik Stervbo and Dr. Zhaoqing Ding.
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org  or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 4: Understanding and engineering immune repertoires with Dr. Jacob Glanville

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.
AIRR Community Meeting VI: “Exploring New Frontiers”: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/meetings/airr-community-meeting-vi-exploring-new-frontiers
iReceptor+ Seminar Series: http://www.ireceptor-plus.com/news-and-events/seminars
Comments are welcome to the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 3: Outlining chronic lymphocytic leukemia with Dr. Anton Langerak

Anton Langerak is Professor and head of Laboratory Medical Immunology at the Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, Netherlands and chair of coordination of the EuroClonality-NGS working group (https://euroclonality.org/ngs/about and https://euroclonality.org). 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.
AIRR Community Meeting VI: “Exploring New Frontiers”: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/meetings/airr-community-meeting-vi-exploring-new-frontiers
Comments are welcome at the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast

On AIRR 2: Establishing an AIRR-Seq framework with Dr. Lindsay Cowell

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.
Comments are welcome at the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast/

On AIRR 1: MRD with Dr. Luning Prak

Today's guest is Nina Luning Prak from the University of Pennsylvania. We talk a bit about the AIRR-Community but mostly about diagnosis of B or T cell malignancies and minimal residual disease evaluation and tracking of B cell clones in autoimmunity.
Comments are welcome at the inbox of onairr@airr-community.org or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/the-airr-community/airr-c-podcast/