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Nick Borcherding

@thehumanborch.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @wusm_pathology | TCRs 🤝 HLA | MD/PhD Pathologist using computers and ML for immunology and oncology | Former Marine Corp Sgt

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Gregor Sturm @grst.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Happy to announce the release of IggyTop, a metadatabase for immune receptor–epitope interactions. It's integrated with scirpy v0.24 so you can readily use it to annotate your single-cell TCR datasets. iggytop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Gabriel Victora @victora.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Renewing my yearly bet on Cooper/Miller for the Nobels. One might think that I would learn after being wrong so many times, but one would be mistaken. laskerfoundation.org/winners/b-an...
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B and T cells—the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system - Lasker Foundation
For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Excited to present at the ASHI Annual Meeting next week on Predicting TCR Specificity in the Age of Single-Cell Sequencing. See you on Monday! ashiannualmeeting2025.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?p...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excited to announce ImmReferent - A one stop shop for getting and handling IMGT immune receptor and HLA sequences in R. github.com/BorchLab/imm...
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GitHub - BorchLab/immReferent: An Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene IMGT Reference Data
An Interface for Immune Receptor and HLA Gene IMGT Reference Data - BorchLab/immReferent
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Anyone interested in medical/laboratory information systems and language models - Check out the 2025 ADLM Data Science Challenge: github.com/myADLM/ADLM-...
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GitHub - myADLM/ADLM-2025-Data-Challenge: Build an AI Tool for Extracting Information from Laboratory Documentation
Build an AI Tool for Extracting Information from Laboratory Documentation - myADLM/ADLM-2025-Data-Challenge
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Researching at the intersection of HLA and viral infections - check out the special issue from Viruses. www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
scRepertoire now supports exporting clones directly into the immunarch workflow. Removing barriers like it's an anti-PD1. vignette: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre...
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Kelvin (Zewen) Tuong @kelvintuong.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
dandelionR: Single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis in R is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Checkout our package at github.com/tuonglab/dan... and on Bioconductor 3.21 onwards! Thanks to everyone involved! @thehumanborch.bsky.social
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dandelionR: Single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis in R
Integration of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and adaptive immune receptor (AIR) sequencing (scVDJ-seq) is extremely powerful in studying lymp…
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Terkild Brink Buus @terkild.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
❗How can a cancer exploit its environment and still resist treatment? ✅The answer: co-existing malignant subclones. Let me walk you through our latest study investigating how divergent evolution drives adaptability, aggressiveness, and drug resistance of T cell cancer. 1/🧵 doi.org/10.1158/2159...
Schematic figure showing divergent evolution of malignant subclones and how they migrate to different tissue compartments (blood vs skin), respond differently to extrinsic stimuli such as Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins, and how subclones differ in their intrinsic resistance to anti-cancer drugs.
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Just resubmited the scRepertoire manuscript. Favorite part of the reviewer suggestions was benchmarking - scRepertoire v2 (yellow) can assign > 1 million TCR clonotypes in 30 seconds! Let's not talk about scRepertoire v1 (green line). Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Ibex update! Our single-cell BCR deep learning package just got a major overhaul! ✅ Now supports CDR3 & full CDR1/2/3 embeddings ✅ Human & mouse models available ✅ Trained on 2–10M unique sequences for high accuracy Check it out! github.com/BorchLab/Ibex
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GitHub - BorchLab/Ibex: Using BCR and expression for sequence embedding
Using BCR and expression for sequence embedding . Contribute to BorchLab/Ibex development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you are interested in HLA, adaptive immunity, or viral infections, please see the special issue I am guest editor for: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...
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Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) in Viral Infections
Special Issue in journal Viruses: Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) in Viral Infections
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mheming.bsky.social @mheming.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
1/2 Every #rstats user, interested in #reproducible analysis should try the new version of #rix. It's much more robust than just using renv. With this update rix allows to use date specific versions and improves using github packages. bsky.app/profile/brod...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
scRepertoire 2: Enhanced and Efficient Toolkit for Single-Cell Immune Profiling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
There's a really interesting new paper out in Science for people who care about immunity to flu (which should be everyone because flu is a VERY big problem): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's my thread explaining this work🧵
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Coupling antigens from multiple subtypes of influenza can broaden antibody and T cell responses
The seasonal influenza vaccine contains strains of viruses from distinct subtypes that are grown independently and then combined. However, most individuals exhibit a more robust response to one of the...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 19/12/2024
Exciting news from Palleon Pharma. Engineered sialidases remove glyco-immune checkpoint ligands from B cells, thereby potentiating antibody-mediated B cell depletion for treatment of autoimmune disease. Clinical studies gearing up in partnership with Henlius Biotech #glycotime
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Palleon Pharmaceuticals and Henlius Collaborate to Advance Glycan Editing as a Treatment for Autoimmune Diseases
Palleon Pharmaceuticals, a company pioneering glyco-immunology drug development to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced a collaborati
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Jasmine Rowell, PhD @jasminerowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our paper has now been published @elife.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Check it out, especially if you are interested in the TCR repertoire and T cell development in the thymus doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Distinct T-cell receptor (TCR) gene segment usage and MHC-restriction between foetal and adult thymus
The foetal thymic T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is distinct from adult, and it is less governed by MHC-restriction, more closely encoded by genomic sequence with distinct gene-segment usage includi...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our massive effort to recontextualize #single #T-cell data is now out in Science Advances! We developed a new system, STEGO, to do a TCR-first analysis, and reanalyzed 12 studies and more than 500 000 individual T-cells. Supported by @cziscience.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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T cell receptor–centric perspective to multimodal single-cell data analysis
T cell receptor–centric perspective improves single-cell analysis.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Rather than immune suppression, CD206+ TAMs recruit a tumor-reactive network of CD8 T cells, cDC1s, and NK cells doi.org/10.1084/jem.... @maxkrummel.bsky.social @jexpmed.bsky.social
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 26/11/2024
I had zero luck with grants. People really didn’t get why what I did was important and never figured out how to explain it to them.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 27/11/2024
Cool preprint by ⁦Dustin and coworkers on how various T cell engager formats, w/varying geometries/rigidities, impact synapse structure and potency www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Solution structure and synaptic analyses reveal determinants of bispecific T cell engager potency
Bispecific T-cell engagers (TcEs) link T cell receptors to tumor-associated antigens on cancer cells, forming cytotoxic immunological synapses (IS). Close membrane-to-membrane contact (≤13 nm) has bee...
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Paul Thomas @pgtimmune.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We keep improving TIRTL-seq, see the updated preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! New additions include: a manual 96-well protocol, code and raw data now available, and successful in vitro validation of EBV and SARS-CoV-2 TCRs.
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TIRTL-seq: Deep, quantitative, and affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencing
α/β T cells are key players in adaptive immunity. The specificity of T cells is determined by the sequences of the hypervariable T cell receptor (TCR) α and β chains. Although bulk TCR sequencing offe...
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/11/2024
This #glycotime work by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social is intriguing; terminal GlcNAc is a viral epitope recognized by Abs that keep endogenous retroviruses at bay. Must be something about the context of that GlcNAc, would love to see some followup structural biology. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A B cell screen against endogenous retroviruses identifies glycan-reactive IgM that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses
Profiling of ERV-reactive B-1 cells in mice reveals natural antibodies against terminal N-acetylglucosamine on multiple viral envelope proteins.
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
VDJ space-based trajectory analysis for single-cell immune profiling is coming to R! Check the dandelionR package (in progress): github.com/tuonglab/dan... Original Publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dhuvi Karthikeyan @dkarthikey1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My first Skeetorial! 💻🧬TCR-TRANSLATE - A new framework for thinking about the TCR:pMHC specificity problem. TLDR: We pretrained LLMs on ~8M TCR & pMHC seqs Finetuned on sparse pMHC->TCR pair data Validated CDR3b sequences to unseen antigens >> random performance on IMMREP2023 "private" antigens
meme paper summary showing a fork in the road for the tcr:pmhc specificity problem: 1. pointing to binary classification 2. pointing towards gen AI
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Congrats to Qile and the R package: APackOfTheClones to visualize single-cell immune profiling! Fully compatible with scRepertoire too!
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Jamie Heather @jamieheather.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Inspired by @rodrahimi.bsky.social 's noble efforts linking immunologists together over here, let's try and get more specifically TCR/BCR/AIRR/repertoire chat going with this starter park go.bsky.app/Gi2dcGd Drop me a beep to get added or suggest others!
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Dillon Corvino @eomesodermin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am excited to share our latest paper. We profiled CD8+ TILs from HPV- HNSCC patients using scRNA/TCRseq. In addition, we performed an ex vivo stimulation of cells to capture their transcriptional response. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Type I Interferon Drives a Cellular State Inert to TCR‐Stimulation and Could Impede Effective T‐Cell Differentiation in Cancer
Multimodal single-cell RNA sequencing identified a population of CD8+ T cells elevated in tumor tissue enriched for interferon-stimulated genes (ISG). These ISG cells are clonally related to a popula...
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Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ 🧑🏾‍🔬 @carmonation.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
in case this is useful to someone in this massive platform migration: a starting pack for single-cell omics computational methods go.bsky.app/GmS1cH
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The one science tweet that I still think about regularly, posting here for posterity.
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Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New de-novo TCR design preprint from @dkarthikey1.bsky.social just dropped: TCR-TRANSLATE: Conditional Generation of Real Antigen Specific T-cell Receptor Sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
New TCR + Expression multimodal integration approach for single-cell sequencing. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Identifying T-cell clubs by embracing the local harmony between TCR and gene expressions | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimageTCRclub integrates scRNA-seq and scTCR-seq data by local harmony to identify functionally similar T cell groups, termed ‘clubs’, enhancing the understanding of T cell diversity. TCRclub mod...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
New R package immApex for deep learning with immune receptor sequences: repo: github.com/ncborcherdin... vignette: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
scRepertoire v2 beta is out and stable, Rccp integration from means its 30x faster. Please check it out, kick the tires, find the edge cases: GitHub: github.com/ncborcherdin... website: www.borch.dev/uploads/scre...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
scRepertoire v2 is coming - reach out if you have a feature request and even better, if you want to contribute (and authorship!!). New feature - clonal-based rarefaction analysis. Find out more at: github.com/ncborcherdin...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Trex now has 16 total CNN models for single-cell TRA and TRB chains + geometric transformations. Next stop, dual chains!
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Sri Krishna (Krish) @tellkrish.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
🧪🔬🦠🩺Pls share. We are evaluating postdoc candidates with interests computational or experimental immunology, or tumor biology, immunotherapy, T cell immunology, or genome engineering. ccr.cancer.gov/careers/post...
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Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
#HiSciSky I work on machine learning x genomics x immunology for personalized cancer vaccine design. Background: CS PhD (ML + GPU compilers), pivoted to biomedicine, helped start 3 neoantigen vaccine trials. Now at UNC (pirl.unc.edu) trying to improve basic design of neoantigen therapies. 🧪🧬🖥️⚕️
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Personalized Immunotherapy Research Lab
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Preprint for Trex is up, check out a framework for combining sc-GEX and TCR data - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3.... Like Ibex, the CNN encoders for TCR sequences are up and integrated into the Seurat/Bioconductor pipeline at github.com/ncborcherdin...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
New version of Ibex up later today for single-cell GEX and BCR sequencing. Now at 16 convolutional neural network-based autoencoders trained on over 1.5 million heavy and light chain sequences with more to come: github.com/ncborcherdin...
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Coder life hack - loop testing parameters now auto-idents the step it is on and emails me the top 10 iterations when it is done:
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Nick Borcherding @thehumanborch.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
First few day on bsky - I am Nick a MD/PhD working on developing computational frameworks to bring TCR sequencing into the clinic at Omniscope. My free time is mostly spent running after my daughter and writing open-source R packages for single-cell sequencing. Excited to meet new people here!
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