New lab member - Valentin
Valentin has recently started as a new lab member. We welcome him warmly !
Meet us at the AIRR Community Meeting III
The next AIRR community meeting will be held on December 3-6, 2017, at the NIH Fishers Lane Conference Centre, Rockville, Maryland. More information can be found here: http://airr.irmacs.sfu.ca/meetings/communityIII Johannes and Jake will both be attending this meeting. Johannes will be giving a talk on the Tuesday, and Jake will be presenting a poster.
Talks added
We have added slides of previous presentations - mainly clinical as most presented research is unpublished. We have added pdf versions of previous talks given by members of the team and will update this site continuously.
Website now live
Our new website is now live! We decided to go with hugo for creating the site - this is a static website generating engine which simplifies the process of creating a stable website. There is also an R package called blogdown which can be used to run hugo, and incorporates compatibility for Rmd files, enabling R code and figures to be nicely displayed. There are a few default themes already created for hugo which can be used to speed up the development process.
Paper on autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) published in Blood Advances
Read it here: Lymphadenopathy driven by TCR-Vγ8Vδ1 T-cell expansion in FAS-related autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome Key Points: FAS-dependent apoptosis in Vδ1 T cells makes the latter possible culprits for the lymphadenopathy observed in patients with FAS mutations. Rapamycin and methylprednisolone resistance should prompt clinicians to look for Vδ1 T cell proliferation in ALPS-FAS patients.