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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬

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Helping scientists find the epitope specificity of their T-cell receptors at @immunewatch.bsky.social (www.immunewatch.com) Scientist on an entrepreneurial journey PhD in bioinformatics and microbiology Ex-Bork (EMBL) and Lebeer lab

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · Nov 7

Why did I trade academia for a startup environment?

Because several scientist I worked with during my PhD convinced me of their mission:

They want to fully decode the T-cell repertoire.

I recently found an old slide that visualises this goal beautifully.

#ImmunoSky
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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 5d

Vooral dus een anekdotische les gebaseerd op eigen ervaring:)

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 5d

www.linkedin.com/posts/sander...

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 5d

2) Solving a scientific problem does not equal market opportunities.
Bv. ImmuneWatch. Sterke tech maar lang zoeken naar product-market fit. Na eerst diagnostiek te exploreren lijken we die gevonden te hebben met software/service model.
3) Lijst van frameworks die mij goed hebben geholpen

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 5d

Is het not done om hier naar Linkedin te linken?🤔

Heb daar even drie take aways uitgeschreven:
1) Stay Flexible
Bv. Kultured: Succesvolle Krautfunding en initiele B2C verkoop maar verdere groei viel tegen. Pivot naar B2B lijkt way to go.

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

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.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.

I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.

Car dependence isn’t freedom.

Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency

Cartoon worm, man accuses women of being “anti-Car “…

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 7d

OMG 😭 How could I have missed this

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 13d

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

ImmuneWatch @immunewatch.bsky.social · 13d

We committed ourselves to push new TCR-epitope data to our database every quarter.

Last week we published a new version of ImmuneWatch DETECT with TCRs for 75 different epitopes, of which 49 were not yet in our database.

Many new HPV epitopes!

immunewatch.gitlab.io/detect-docs/...

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 21d

Lol, indeed not something everyone can say 😃

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 21d

Cool!

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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

www.immunewatch.com

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 22d

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 😂

Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 26d

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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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · Aug 19

First PhD students graduating... What a milestone for the lab!

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Edwin Mermans @edwinmermans.bsky.social · Aug 5

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 · Jul 21

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...

AlphaFold - A practical guide

www.ebi.ac.uk

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Elisa Rosati Scalchi @elisarosix.bsky.social · May 27

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 · May 27

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

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Sander Wuyts, PhD 🧬 @swuyts.bsky.social · Apr 29

Out of curiosity: how long was the run and how many Kms did you do in the huge venue?😁

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Pieter Meysman @pmeysman.bsky.social · Apr 14

#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 · Apr 26

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 · Apr 26

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 · Apr 25

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...

Webinar: Annotate the specificity of your TCRs on Platforma

YouTube video by ImmuneWatch

m.youtube.com

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