22145 Immunological Bioinformatics Course Programme January 2021
COURSE PLAN FOR 2021
EXAM
The pdf with the exam will be uploaded here on Friday January 22nd, 13 - 15hs
Guidelines
- The exam will be made available at the wiki at 13.00hs. Upload a pdf with your answers no later than 15.00hs on DTU inside written exam assignment.
- You must connect at Zoom 5 minutes before the exam, and have the camera turned ON during the whole exam. Failing to meet this requirement will invalidate the exam.
- This is an individual exam. Remember sharing or copying answers is not allowed and will be severely punished according to DTU rules and code-of-honor.
Information for Course Participants
Course Format
- NEWS! Due to new restrictions on Covid19 this course will be completely conducted online and all classes will be recorded and uploaded
- Due to group work on some classes, it will be mandatory that you are connected and work online on the allocated time for those
- This will be needed for the entire first day, the question and answer sessions, and the final exam
- Classes will be a mixture of lectures, group work and individual exercises
- Most of the group work will consist of computer exercises, where students are required to use their laptops
- General Question and Answer will be live and uploaded after the session
- Specif Question and Answers for exercise-lectures will be held on Piazza, where you need to create an user
- All learning resources will be available through DTU inside or this site
- Expected time usage: 1 ECTS point equals approx. 28 hours, this translates to an expected time usage of ~10 hours/day for a 5 ECTS 3-week course
Course Resources
- Official course website
- Official course description
- ZOOM link for live classes(registration with DTU mail needed)
- Piazza link for Q&A on exercises
- IMPORTANT: Please note, that the below course programme can be subject to changes or updates. Make sure to reload the page, to get the newest version of the programme.
Course Teachers
- [CB] Carolina Barra
- [PM] Paolo Marcatili
- [MN] Morten Nielsen
- [BR] Birkir Reynisson
- [HP] Helle Rus Povlsen
- [MV] Milena Vujovic
- [AM] Alessandro Montemurro
General Daily Schedule
- 09.00 - 12.00 Lectures
- 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
- 13.00 - 13.30 Live sessions Q&A
- 13.30 - 17.00 Exercises
Location
- NOTE: This edition of the course will be completely online
Profiles of Invited Speakers for Mini Symposium
- Clinical perspective: MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor Marco Donia, Center for Cancer Immune Therapy (CCIT) and Unit for Experimental Cancer Treatment (EFEK), Herlev-Gentofte Hospital and University of Copenhagen
- Molecular Biology perspective: PhD, Adjunkt Professor Sunil Kumar Saini, Section for Experimental and Translational Immunology, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark
- Biomedical Industry perspective: upon confirmation.
- Bioinformatics Industry perspective: PhD, Head of Bioinformatics Monika Sekelja, Vaccibody A/S
2021 Course Schedule Overview
Monday Jan. 4th | Tuesday Jan. 5th | Wednesday Jan. 6th | Thursday Jan. 7th | Friday Jan. 8th | Monday Jan. 11th | Tuesday Jan. 12th | Wednesday Jan. 13th | |
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Topic | Introduction and Basic Immunology | T-Cell Epitopes | Antigen Processing and Presentation, HLA Clustering, and Vaccine Design | Protein Structure of B-/T-Cell Receptors and B-Cell Epitopes | Immunopeptidomics, T-Cell Repertoires and the IEDB | Antibody Humanization and T-Cell Interaction Models | De-Immunization and Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Immunotherapy | Mini-symposium on Immunoinformatics by Invited Speakers |
09.00 - 09.30 | Course Introduction Live on Zoom Recording: MP4 [CB] | Lecture: Prediction of MHC peptide binding Part 1 [MN]. Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4], Logo handout: [PDF], Answer Logo handout Logo handout Recording [MP4]. | Lecture: MHC motif deconvolution - Identifying sequence motifs in large scale ligand data sets [MN]. Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4]. | Lecture: TCR and BCR structure. Recording: Antibody Modelling [PM] | Lecture: Immunopeptidomics Live on Zoom Recording: MP4 [CB] | Lecture: Antibody Humanization Video [PM] | Lecture: Protein Drug Deimmunization Live on Zoom pdf mp4 [BR] | Talk 1: Cancer immunotherapy in the clinic. Marco Donia Live! video |
09.30 - 10.15 | Micro project group work Live on Zoom [CB] | Lecture: Prediction of MHC peptide binding part 2 [MN]. Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4]. NN handout [PDF]. NN handout Recording [MP4]. | Lecture: What defines a T cell epitope? Is there any thing beyond MHC binding? [MN] Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4]. | Exercise: Antibody Structure Prediction and Analysis Recording: Exercise [PM] | Exercise files: Peptides Alleles_list Answers: AnswersLive on Zoom [CB] | Exercise: Antibody Humanization [PM] | Exercise: Protein Drug Deimmunization [BR] | Talk 2: SARS-CoV-2 full genome profiling for T cell immunity and immunodominance in COVID-19 infection. Sunil Kumar Saini Live! video |
10.15 - 10.30 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
10.30 - 11.15 | Micro project group work Live on Zoom [CB] | Lecture: Prediction of MHC peptide binding part 3 [MN]. Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4]. | Lecture: Selecting the one in a million. Strategies for selecting peptide subsets, and vaccine design [MN]. Session materials: Slides [PDF]. Recording: [MP4]. | Lecture: Linear B-cell epitope prediction. Recording: [1] [PM] | Lecture: T-Cell Receptor Repertoires Live on Zoom Slides Recording: [[MP4] [MV] | Lecture: Single cell technologies for T-cell epitopes Single Cell and NetTCR Project videoLive on Zoom [HP] | Lecture: Humanization and deimmunization for cancer T cell therapy molecules video [PM] | Talk 3: The utilization of bioinformatics to guide drug design. Monika Sekelja Live! video |
11.15 - 12.00 | Micro project group work Live on Zoom [CB] | Lecture: Performance measures [MN]. Recording: [MP4]. | Lecture: Selecting the one in a million. Strategies for selecting peptide subsets, and vaccine design [MN] cont. | Lecture: Conformational B-cell epitope prediction. Recording: [2][PM] | Lecture: The Immune Epitope Database & Tools Live on Zoom PDF mp4 [BR] | Lecture: Modelling TCRpMHC interactions videoLive on Zoom [AM] | Lecture: Humanization and deimmunization for cancer T cell therapy molecules [PM] | Talk 4: TBC Live! |
12.00 - 13.00 | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
13.00 - 13.30 | Live: Q&A Session [CB] | Live: Quiz: MHC binding. Q&A Session [MN]. Recordings: R1 [MP4]. R2 [MP4]. R3 [MP4]. | Live: Exercise recap [MN]. Quiz: MHC processing, epitope discovery and vaccine design. Q&A Session [MN]. Recordings: R1 [MP4]. | Live: Exercise recap [MN] Recordings: R1 [MP4]. | Live: Exercise recap Recordings: [MP4] [PM] | Live: Exercise recap video [CB] and [BR] | Live: Exercise recap video [HP] | Live: Exercise recap [PM] |
13.30 - 17.00 | Micro project group work Live on Zoom Presentations_part1 Presentations_part2 [CB] | Exercise:Prediction of MHC:peptide binding using PSSM and ANN
Answers: Prediction of MHC:peptide binding using PSSM and ANN |
Exercise: Development of vaccines against HCV [MN] Answers | Exercise: B cell epitope predictions [PM] | Exercise: T-Cell Receptor Repertoires [MV] Suggested answers Exercise: IEDB [BR] | Exercise: Single cell technologies for T-cell epitopes [HP] | Exercise: CAR T-cell humanisation and de-immunisation [PM] | Live on Zoom Introduction to project and exam [CB] |
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Project Period and Exam
Project
Wednesday January 13th - Wednesday January 20nd - Project Work
Please note the following (***time has been updated***):
- The deadline for uploading the final project Poster presentation (i.e. not a report) to DTU inside will be Wednesday January 20nd at 11.59AM
- It is a prerequisite for the exam to complete this assignment and as such, failure to meet the deadline will result in a failed exam
- Furthermore and very important - Each group member is responsible for all aspects of the group work and subsequent presentation
Groups and Projects 2021
- Groups will be preset based on educational diversity
Exam Schedule
- General exam format will consist on 2 parts (course learning objectives):
Oral presentation of the poster project ~10 minutes for all group presentation + 5 minutes for questions (15 minutes total) Date: January 21st 2021 (specific times per group to be announced)
Written exam ~20 questions 2hs, all conducted online on DTU Inside Date: January 22st 2021
- Individual grades will be given after the finalization of the course