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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'll be honest, I wish I wrote this paper on the interface of microbiome and TCR seq 🫣 linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii... On the positive, note: it features ImmuneWatch DETECT, so can't complain 😀 cc @pmeysman.bsky.social

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I thought I'd never publish again when transitioning from postdoc to startup founder. Today we proved that wrong as I am happy to share our latest @immunewatch.bsky.social paper on applying TCR-epitope models for TIL-therapy together with Harari and Coukos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Modern cancer immunotherapies are highly personal, tuned to a specific individual. Highly effective and extremely cool, but how do we do quality control on something that is unique? What if we combined ever cheaper NGS with state-of-the art annotation tools? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Applications of T-cell receptor specificity annotation models for quality control and immunomonitoring in adoptive T-cell therapies

Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) is a powerful candidate immunotherapy. However, the personalized production proc…

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We're testing something new: access ImmuneWatch DETECT through an MCP integration with Claude. Let me know if you'd like to try it out: xvx5k3zru3y.typeform.com/to/Wq7egCwo

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

For the latest episode of The Repertoire Room Podcast, I sat down with Samra Turajlic after her talk at The Festival of Genomics and Biodata. "We could only understand this because we were able to track the clones through TCR sequencing." Check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRd...

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Multiomics and TCR Sequencing in Immunotherapy | Repertoire Room Ep. 5

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Is it possible that in the newest update of Spotify, I can not switch from VIDEO mode to AUDIO only mode anymore? I used to be able to switch very easily and now it seems some button disappeared as I just can't figure it out. Super annoying

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'll be in London at the festival of Genomics later this week. Hit me up if you want to connect!

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One of my favourite pics of Peer. Took this one on a summer day in 2021 during a lab get-to-together at his place. Cheer to you too Peer. #PeerBork

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

For many years, Peer Bork organised Bio-IT retreats to bring together the bioinformaticians across EMBL, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and later Feldberg. Days out on the mountain followed by forward-looking and meta-science oriented sessions in the hut that fueled many projects and careers.

Peer Bork on top of Zugspitze, ready to race down

Peer Bork, Jan Korbel, others at Sonnenkar ski lift at Zugspitze

Après-Ski scientific sessions from 16:00 till very late.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I can not believe this news. The EMBL community, microbiome field and bioinformatics in general loses a legend 😢 www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

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In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'll bee in London at the end of the month for the Festival of Genomics. Who can I run into?

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Enjoy this festive season on LinkedIn!

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Any TCR-seq folk attending Festival of Genomics in London? festivalofgenomics.com/london

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Zou dat in Galatasaray zijn gebeurd die stuntzege?

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Finding the putative target of a TCR is hard! But I am really excited to see that innovative cancer therapy companies like Obsidian Therapeutics are getting some real value out of using our database + machine learning algorithm.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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 :)

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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...

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Podcast: The Repertoire Room - Episode 2 featuring Stanislav Poslavsky (MiLaboratories)

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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 😂

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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.

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Edwin Mermans @edwinmermans.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/07/2025

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...

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AlphaFold - A practical guide

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Elisa Rosati Scalchi @elisarosix.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

#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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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

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ImmuneWatch @immunewatch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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...

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Webinar: Annotate the specificity of your TCRs on Platforma

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

** meme of guy that rubs his face **

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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! 👇

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Damon May @the-dee-em.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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.

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Disease diagnostics using machine learning of B cell and T cell receptor sequences

Clinical diagnosis typically incorporates physical examination, patient history, various laboratory tests, and imaging studies but makes limited use of the human immune system’s own record of antigen ...

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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.

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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 05/03/2025

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

Blue square graphic, with black and white text which reads, ‘Breaking news: Announcing seven new Cancer Grand Challenges’

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Biomedical Primate Research Centre @bprc-eu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🎥 #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...

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We wrapped up our CAPTIVATE Annual Meeting in Barcelona

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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 😀

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 26/02/2025

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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...

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Webinar: Annotating the antigen specificity of a TCR repertoire

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 we’re pleased to invite you to an u...

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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

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ImmuneWatch @immunewatch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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?...

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