Crazy excited about Jack White being on tour again! He was just announced headlining Best Kept Secret festival in the NL 🥳

Episode 3 of “The Repertoire Room” has just been released! After 2 episodes with technology providers in the TCR sequencing space, I now wanted to have a conversation with someone that was really using these technologies to push innovative therapies to patients. Enter: @armanaksoy.bsky.social

This might end up in the void, but is ESMO IO worth attending?

If you asked me 10 years ago, I wouldn't have guessed that I would ever give a guest lecture on "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Talks about microbiology, sequencing technologies, gene editing technologies, fermentation or bioinformatics: yes. But Entrepreneurship, nah :)

Tonight at a public meeting I clapped when everyone else was murmuring in fear and worry about the idea of reducing the number of lanes on a road in order to accommodate wider sidewalks and bike lanes. Definitely an outlier.

Always curious whether this new update will bring new insights for you!

Episode 2 of my podcast, the Repertoire Room is live! In this podcast I hope to have insightful conversations with people working on TCR sequencing and analysis. Now I sat down with the developer of one of the most used tools in the field: MiXCR www.immunewatch.com/news/podcast...

Never thought I was going to post something like this on our Slack but after submitting some EU-grants it felt like the right thing to do 😂

From now on, my reading stats and recaps will be incorrect for eternity.

We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome. We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated. Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.

Het aantal verkeersdoden in een land en stad is een politieke keuze. Geen technische. Dit is oud nieuws en al heel lang bekend. Doe wat Helsinki en Oslo doen die al jarenlang nul verkeersdoden hebben. Bange politici weigeren de automobilist aan te pakken.

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good! There are also little quizzes and interactives. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

First day of #ATCR25 in Antwerp: done ☑️ 🤩 Picture of Antwerp city station #immunology #TCRrepertoire #Tcells #research

Benson Ogunjimi opening the #ATCR25 with the history of the meeting and the AUDACIS consortium.

Ready to start the #ATCR25 meeting celebrating 10 years of the AUDACIS consortium with this amazing line-up of speakers!

#Abstract submission deadline for #ATCR2025 is this Friday! We are again very grateful to have such a strong lineup of #Tcell-receptor experts joining us in Antwerp. Currently at 80% capacity so do not wait to register. www.uantwerpen.be/atcr2025

Extremely excited to see a glimpse of my previous career in microbiome research here at #AACR25 with a talk from the great @cibiocm.bsky.social! Reminds me of my great research stay I did in his lab in Trento.

After a windy bike ride next to the lake, I am completely ready for week 2 of my US trip. Reach out if you want to talk bikes, I mean TCR repertoires, coming days here in Chicago at #AACR25

Analysing and annotating the specificity of TCR repertoires just became a lot easier. Check out our joint webinar with @milaboratories.bsky.social on how to use ImmuneWatch DETECT within Platforma m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECpA...

Washington I am here! 🇺🇸 Happy to connect here at The World Vaccine Congress and American Association for Cancer Research (Chicago) newt week.

** meme of guy that rubs his face **

Are you attending ATCR 2025 (Antwerp TCR meeting)? Already in town on Monday evening, 26 May? Looking for a fun way to connect with fellow attendees? Ever wanted to try a (non-alcoholic) Belgian beer in a real Belgian bar, but felt overwhelmed by the choices? Then read on! 👇

The recent "Mal-ID" paper in Science diagnoses diseases from immune repertoires. But a powerful model like Mal-ID can learn differences between groups of immune repertoires that are unrelated to the diseases of interest. We explore these pitfalls in our eLetter response.

I typed "ls" in my google search bar. Good morning!

Happy to be Jake Baum's 🇦🇺 personal tour guide in Antwerp 🇧🇪 . Enjoyed discussions on TCR-epitope predictions for malaria vaccine development in our CAPTIVATE EU Horizon project. We're using TCR sequencing to try & identify liver-stage T-cell antigens for a next-gen T-cell based malaria vaccine.

Just announced! Seven new Cancer Grand Challenges – with awards of up to £20m – available for research teams around the world to tackle the biggest questions in cancer research. Read more: cruk.ink/4ha3LgZ 1/2

The IMMREP25 TCR specificity prediction challenge is now live on Kaggle! Get involved: kaggle.com/competitions... Huge thanks to: Matthew Noakes, @the-dee-em.bsky.social, @everichardson.bsky.social, @bjoernpeters.bsky.social , @adaptivebiotech.bsky.social , IEDB, @airr-community.bsky.social

🎥 #CaptivateEu scientists Youlia Serikova and Erica Pasini share key takeaways and ambitions for the #EUFunded #CaptivateMalariaVaccine project to move forward: youtu.be/qOx0IYqH6IQ 📢 More on #BPRC ’s website: www.bprc.nl/en/blog/proj...

Blown away by the quantity and quality of questions received yesterday during our webinar for bioinformaticians on “how to annotate the antigen specificity of a TCR repertoire”. I might be biased but this level of engagement is definitely a +1 for bioinformaticians 😀

Going to the 2025 #MIT #European #Career #Fair this weekend, & wondering how to #fund your future #research? Visit the 🇪🇺 European Union's stand to find out all about European Research Council's #grants! Info 👉 europa.eu/!M4MWm8 #EURAXESS #Europe #Science #Grant #Funding @mitofficial.bsky.social

I don't know who needs to hear this but: It's crazy how much people give you in return if you give them trust. Show support for your team members even when they make mistakes. Build trust and you will get more done together.

Are you a bioinformatician working on T-cell Receptor (TCR) repertoires and are you looking for a bioinformatics tool for antigen annotations? We're organising a new scientific webinar on the topic next week: www.immunewatch.com/news/webinar...

Interesting stuff. Again evidence that there is some real potential in using immune repertoires as an all-in-one diagnostic tool

Are you a bioinformatician working on T-cell Receptor (TCR) repertoires and are you looking for a state-of-the-art bioinformatics tool for antigen annotations? Then join us for our webinar: Annotating the antigen specificity of a TCR repertoire. xvx5k3zru3y.typeform.com/to/bvHafjzj?...

🌍🔬 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬🌍 Today, we celebrate the incredible women scientists, group leads, postdocs, engineers, PhD students, and research project managers driving Yellow4FLAVI forward! 🚀💡 www.yellow4flavi.eu/post/interna...

Attending the public PhD defence of Sebastiaan Valkiers on the topic of: "Decoding the TCR landscape in MS" Jury members: @enkrnita.bsky.social @yvansaeys.bsky.social Bart Goethals Promoters: @krislaukens.bsky.social @pmeysman.bsky.social

Mapping the Immune System of different types of autoimmune arthritis with TCR sequencing Features @immunewatch.bsky.social DETECT for finding the antigen specificity of 111 TCR clusters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's gonna be a good Saturday 👍🍕

New goal of 2025: Visit the best pizzeria's in town on every business trip I make. First stop: Barcelona 🇪🇸 Tips welcome and appreciated 🍕

Registration for the Antwerp T-cell Repertoire (ATCR) meeting has opened! It aims to bring together experts, researchers and industry on the study of T-cells through novel high throughput sequencing technologies. Check out the exciting speaker list! www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

Anyone ever took the direct train between Paris and Barcelona? Is it good?

It seems that everyone in the TIL space is doing TCR sequencing? In the last couple of months we had some meaningful interactions on how to get more value out of their TCR data. We'd like to share this knowledge with others through a webinar 👇 xvx5k3zru3y.typeform.com/to/DehFXfX5?...

I started writing with a fountain pen again. Must have been 20 years since I last used one. Never knew I missed this so much 😀

@dom60.bsky.social I don't usually say hi to new followers but your banner is a home made pizza neapolitan pizza, your profile pic features bike packing and you like immune cells. All of the above is also true for me: I feel like we could be friends 😂

Only one week left to apply for Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology! #evolution

I just registered for AACR Annual meeting in Chicago. Super excited to attend my first AACR meeting! But on the other side: the registration process with the online form was horrible. Non-responsive and full of bugs 😬

Life achievement unlocked

When Arcade Fire's "The Lightning II" follows "The Lightning I" in your shuffled playlist.

@swuyts.bsky.social, Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva, and @suguru-nishijima.bsky.social pushed the manuscript over the finish line. For in vitro communities, metatranscriptomics was most versatile in detecting both functional and species abundance change www.embopress.org/do... (2/2)

"Consistency across multi‐omics layers in a drug‐perturbed gut microbial community" (2023) started when @alves-renato.bsky.social wanted to compare metagenomics and metatranscriptomics in a community. The project grew and grew and we added 16S rRNA gene profiling, metaproteomics & metabolomics (1/2)