AIRR-C seminar on antibody discovery and antibody polyreactivity with Ivelin Georgiev, Ph.D. and Marta T. Borowska! antibodysociety.org/the-airr-commu…. April 25, 1600 CET/ 1000 ET. Registration is open now!

Excited to announce our new review: Beyond the Human Genome Project: The Age of Complete Human Genome Sequences and Pangenome References. w/ @BenedictPaten Rajiv McCoy Karen Miga Eimear Kenny et al. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

The talented Oscar L. Rodriguez will be discussing his work on genetic factors underlying variation in the developing BCR repertoire seqanswers.com/forum/site-new…

Check out our new publication about reproducible analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing data: academic.oup.com/bib/article/25…

I'll be attending the amazing AIRR Community Meeting VII - Learnings and Perspectives. Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can say Hi! 👋 Or register now and join me at the event! whova.com/portal/registr… #airrc7 - via #Whova event app whova.com/portal/registr…

Insightful Keynote presentation by Bill Schief, Scripps Research Institute, Moderna. #AIRRC7 Full agenda and more details on the meeting page: tinyurl.com/airrcmeeting7

“Enhanced IG and TR germline sets can improve signal and reduce noise, providing a clearer picture of mutation levels, clonal structure, and response specificity” William Lees, Bar-Ilan University and University of Louisville #AIRRC7 Full agenda: tinyurl.com/airrcmeeting7

Andreas Lossius (University of Oslo) discusses the importance of considering constant gene polymorphisms and allele-specific responses in the context of autoimmune and infectious diseases. #AIRRC7 Full agenda: tinyurl.com/airrcmeeting7

Yana Safanova (Pennsylvania State University) presents state-of-the-art solutions to annotation and comparative analysis of highly diverged IG loci and discusses open immunogenomics questions. #AIRRC7 Full agenda: tinyurl.com/airrcmeeting7

Easton Ford (University of Louisville) presents recent technology developments for the near full-length resolution of antibody heavy chains (FLAIRR-seq) applied to Acetylcholine Receptor Myasthenia Gravis (AChR MG) #AIRRC7 Full agenda: tinyurl.com/airrcmeeting7

Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic conference so far and an opportunity to talk about our work at Immune Epitope Database La Jolla Institute

Honored to participate in #PRISMBangkok, hosted by PacBio The enthusiasm for inclusive #immunogenomics research was wonderful. Excited to build collaborations around the world! Biscuit felt so welcome.

Great way to end a long week. Thanks to my team and collaborators, particularly Easton E. Ford and Corey Watson who have made the move to University of Louisville four years ago the best decision I've ever made!

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More work from Eric Engelbrecht and Oscar L Rodriguez on the value of long-reads for investigating the regulation of V(D)J recombination doi.org/10.4049/jimmun…

Well there it is. The Louisville Clinical and Translational Research Center (1P20GM155899-01) is up on the NIH Reporter website. We’re 5 days post-NOA and well into hiring staff. Best team I’ve ever worked with. Jiapeng Huang

Our latest study presents open access RNA-seq data from cell lines from 731 people from 26 globally diverse populations, addressing a persistent ancestry bias in our field. We hope this resource enables more equitable advances in personalized medicine. nature.com/articles/s4158…

A 65-year-old drug. An exciting finding that reduces inequity in unrelated blood stem cell transplants. Congratulations to the researchers, clinicians and patients that got us here. #CIBMTR #NMDP #PTCy ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

So excited and proud to congratulate my first student Easton E. Ford on the successful defense of his PhD thesis. Introducing Dr. Ford! BMG@UofL

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