Workshop details
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7-Day Workshop on Immunoinformatics
About the Workshop
This workshop covers computational approaches to study immune system components, epitope prediction, vaccine design, and immune repertoire analysis using bioinformatics tools.
Who Can Join
Life science students, immunologists, bioinformaticians, and researchers in vaccine development.
Prerequisites
Basic immunology and molecular biology knowledge.
Day 1: Introduction to Immunoinformatics and Immune System Basics
- Overview of immunoinformatics and applications
- Immune system components and molecular basis
- Biological databases relevant to immunology (IEDB, VDJdb)
- Concepts of linear and conformational B-cell epitopes
- Tools: BepiPred, ABCpred
- MHC class I and II pathways and T-cell epitope basics
- Tools: NetMHCpan, IEDB MHC binding prediction
- Principles of vaccine design using epitopes
- Designing multi-epitope vaccines and linkers
- Tools: VaxiJen, IFNepitope, AllerTOP
- Modeling of epitopes and immune receptors
- Protein-protein docking basics (epitope-MHC, antibody-antigen)
- Tools: SWISS-MODEL, ClusPro
- Analyzing immune repertoire sequencing data
- Tools and databases: IMGT, MiXCR
- Review of immunoinformatics applications in recent research
- Participant presentations of mini-projects
- Discussion on future directions and career paths