Best Airr Community Podcasts (2025)

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Our Why: Ashley and Emma’s Journey to International Education 38:00

6h ago38:00

38:00

Hosts Ashley and Emma sit down to share their personal journeys, discussing how studying abroad transformed their lives and careers. They delve into their early ambitions, the challenges they faced in their educational paths, and how these experiences led them to create a podcast focused on international education. Send us a text Don't forget to fo…

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On AIRR 16: Deciphering the grammar of immune repertoires with Thierry Mora and Aleksandra Walczak 56:45

1M ago56:45

56:45

Dr. Thierry Mora and Dr. Aleksandra Walczak co-lead the Statistical biophysics group within Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS (LPENS) at the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris, France). Physicists by training, Dr. Mora and Dr. Walczak entered the field of the analysis of the immune system in a time when the first AIRR-seq datasets were becoming availab…

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Student Stories: Molly’s Journey to the University of St. Andrews 34:04

4M ago34:04

34:04

Molly Keane, a current student at the University of St. Andrews, shares her journey from attending a California high school to studying biochemistry in Scotland. She helps break down her experience with the application process, cultural differences, and her own journey of becoming an international student. Learn more about: - University of St. Andr…

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Meeting Students Where They Are: Championing Access in International Education with Southampton’s Mubarik Ibrahim 35:53

4M ago35:53

35:53

Mubarak ‘Mubzy’ Ibrahim, the International Regional Manager for the University of Southampton, shares his journey from the UK to the US and discusses the challenges and opportunities in international student recruitment. He emphasizes the importance of widening participation in education, the barriers faced by some North American students, and the …

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New Zealand Awaits with UoA's Ashley Monaghan 26:12

5M ago26:12

26:12

Ashley Monaghan, regional manager for North America at the University of Auckland, shares her insights on studying abroad in New Zealand. She reflects on her journey in international education, her own experiences studying abroad, and what makes New Zealand a distinctive destination for students. Monaghan also discusses the recruitment strategies s…

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'Paris Is Always a Good Idea' with AUP’s Amanda Carroll 23:22

5M ago23:22

23:22

Amanda Carroll, Associate Director of Admissions at American University, Paris (AUP), shares her journey into international education and the unique offerings of AUP. She covers the application process for North American students, the familiarity of the liberal arts education model abroad, and vibrant student life in the heart of the City of Light.…

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Helping Students Take the Leap: A Conversation with Cosplay Counselor Irene Yu 35:20

5M ago35:20

35:20

Have you ever imagined combining the worlds of cosplay and international education counseling? Meet Irene Yu, a vibrant college and career specialist from Orange County, CA who does just that! Irene shares her journey into international education, her unique approach to counseling students, and the importance of studying abroad. She discusses the b…

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Less Barriers More Reef: Making Studying Abroad Easy with JCU Alumna Kaysha Kenney 35:18

5M ago35:18

35:18

Emma and Ashley sit down with Kaysha Kenney, a recent graduate of James Cook University in Australia, to unveil her inspiring journey in the field of marine biology amidst the vibrant backdrop of the Great Barrier Reef. Raised in Southern California with a passion for the ocean, Kaysha shares how this love drove her to pursue both a BSc in Biology …

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‘Rising Tides Raise All Ships’ with AIRR-NA Co-Founder Jim Pierson 28:05

5M ago28:05

28:05

In the inaugural episode, hosts Emma and Ashley welcome Jim Pierson, Senior Manager at University College Dublin and co-founder of the Association of International Regional Representatives in North America (AIRR-NA). Together, they delve into the evolving role of international representatives and the pivotal mission of AIRR-NA while emphasizing the…

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Introducing The Go Abroad Pod! 2:44

6M ago2:44

2:44

See you soon! Send us a text Don't forget to follow us on our socials! IG - @thegoabroadpod TikTok - thegoabroadpodBy The Go Abroad Pod

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On AIRR 15: Germline databases or adventures into the allelic underworld with Dr. Corey Watson and Dr. William Lees 1:02:26

1+ y ago1:02:26

1:02:26

Dr. Corey Watson is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. His work focuses on characterising and cataloguing antibody genetic diversity in human and mouse to better understand disease susceptibility and clinical health outcomes. Dr. William Lees is a researcher at University of London. His work focuses on developing Adaptive Immun…

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On AIRR 14: Data protection and data sharing with Alexander Bernier 51:16

1+ y ago51:16

51:16

Alexander Bernier BCL, JD, LLM, SJD (Candidate) is a Montreal-based lawyer, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His work aims to give scientists a range of compliant data sharing designs that scientists can implement in different situations. In this episode, we discuss the risk of identifying individuals in a biolo…

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On AIRR 13: Disease diagnostics using machine learning with Maxim Zaslavsky and Dr. Scott D. Boyd 34:15

1+ y ago34:15

34:15

Maxim Zaslavsky is a computer scientist using machine learning to address problems in immunology. He is currently PhD student at Stanford University. Scott D. Boyd is a physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and of Food Allergy and Immunology at Stanford University. His group is focused on using high-throughput DNA sequencing and single-cel…

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On AIRR 12: T-cell receptor-mimetic antibodies and immunoinformatics with Prof. Dr. Charlotte Deane 39:31

2y ago39:31

39:31

Dr. Charlotte Deane is Professor of Structural Bioinformatics in the Department of Statistics in University of Oxford (UK) and heads the Oxford Protein Informatics Group. Prof. Deane’s research merges statistics, immunoinformatics, protein structure and small molecule drug discovery. Her group has published several databases that are widely used by…

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On AIRR 11: Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) with Dr. Xenophon Papademetris 40:10

2y ago40:10

40:10

Dr. Xenophon Papademetris is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, USA. The research of Prof. Papademetris is in the area of medical image analysis with a focus in the development of medical software. Dr. Papademetris provides an overview of the typical regulatory process for software classifi…

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On AIRR 10: Characterising B Cell Lymphomas or Profiting from a Focus on B Cells in Health and in Disease with Dr. Ralf Küppers 46:46

2y ago46:46

46:46

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…

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On AIRR 9: The ImmunoMind or wielding an AI for repertoire insights with Vadim Nazarov 47:36

2+ y ago47:36

47:36

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 continuousl…

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On AIRR 8: Engineering B cells or Giving the immune System an Optimal Starting Point with Dr. Adi Barzel 39:03

2+ y ago39:03

39:03

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 se…

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On AIRR 7: Quality Controls in AIRR-Seq Assays or Handling the Catastrophe with Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

41:44

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 systema…

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On AIRR 6: Data Sharing or Finding Glory, Fame and a Big Pile of Gold with Dr. Brian Corrie and Dr. Scott Christley 50:14

2+ y ago50:14

50:14

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 de…

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On AIRR 5: Machine learning and AIRR or Looking for the needle in a needle stack with Dr. Lindsay Cowell and Dr. Victor Greiff 41:54

3y ago41:54

41:54

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 ne…

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On AIRR 4: Understanding and engineering immune repertoires with Dr. Jacob Glanville 50:35

3y ago50:35

50:35

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 an…

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On AIRR 3: Outlining chronic lymphocytic leukemia with Dr. Anton Langerak 38:14

3y ago38:14

38:14

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…

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On AIRR 2: Establishing an AIRR-Seq framework with Dr. Lindsay Cowell 41:46

3y ago41:46

41:46

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 [email protected] or on social media under the hashtag #onAIRR. Further information can be found here: https://www.antibodysociety.org/…

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On AIRR 1: MRD with Dr. Luning Prak 55:10

3y ago55:10

55:10

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 [email protected] or on social media under the hashta…

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Our Why: Ashley and Emma’s Journey to International Education 38:00

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On AIRR 16: Deciphering the grammar of immune repertoires with Thierry Mora and Aleksandra Walczak 56:45

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Student Stories: Molly’s Journey to the University of St. Andrews 34:04

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Meeting Students Where They Are: Championing Access in International Education with Southampton’s Mubarik Ibrahim 35:53

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New Zealand Awaits with UoA's Ashley Monaghan 26:12

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'Paris Is Always a Good Idea' with AUP’s Amanda Carroll 23:22

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Helping Students Take the Leap: A Conversation with Cosplay Counselor Irene Yu 35:20

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Less Barriers More Reef: Making Studying Abroad Easy with JCU Alumna Kaysha Kenney 35:18

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‘Rising Tides Raise All Ships’ with AIRR-NA Co-Founder Jim Pierson 28:05

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Introducing The Go Abroad Pod! 2:44

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On AIRR 15: Germline databases or adventures into the allelic underworld with Dr. Corey Watson and Dr. William Lees 1:02:26

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On AIRR 14: Data protection and data sharing with Alexander Bernier 51:16

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On AIRR 13: Disease diagnostics using machine learning with Maxim Zaslavsky and Dr. Scott D. Boyd 34:15

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On AIRR 12: T-cell receptor-mimetic antibodies and immunoinformatics with Prof. Dr. Charlotte Deane 39:31

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On AIRR 11: Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) with Dr. Xenophon Papademetris 40:10

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On AIRR 10: Characterising B Cell Lymphomas or Profiting from a Focus on B Cells in Health and in Disease with Dr. Ralf Küppers 46:46

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On AIRR 9: The ImmunoMind or wielding an AI for repertoire insights with Vadim Nazarov 47:36

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On AIRR 8: Engineering B cells or Giving the immune System an Optimal Starting Point with Dr. Adi Barzel 39:03

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On AIRR 7: Quality Controls in AIRR-Seq Assays or Handling the Catastrophe with Dr. Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz 41:44

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On AIRR 6: Data Sharing or Finding Glory, Fame and a Big Pile of Gold with Dr. Brian Corrie and Dr. Scott Christley 50:14

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On AIRR 5: Machine learning and AIRR or Looking for the needle in a needle stack with Dr. Lindsay Cowell and Dr. Victor Greiff 41:54

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On AIRR 4: Understanding and engineering immune repertoires with Dr. Jacob Glanville 50:35

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On AIRR 3: Outlining chronic lymphocytic leukemia with Dr. Anton Langerak 38:14

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On AIRR 2: Establishing an AIRR-Seq framework with Dr. Lindsay Cowell 41:46

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On AIRR 1: MRD with Dr. Luning Prak 55:10

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