Welcome to the twelfth Human Cell Atlas newsletter
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** Issue 12: October 2022
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Dear HCA Members,
Welcome to the 12^th Human Cell Atlas newsletter.
In June, we were enormously pleased to meet face-to-face for the first hybrid General Meeting in three years; it was wonderful to get the community together in Vienna and online. In addition to seeing old friends and forging new collaborations, the meeting drove forward the creation of roadmaps for the Bionetworks which are helping to map a path towards the first draft of the HCA.
We hope you will enjoy this newsletter which highlights the great community spirit, events and news from HCA members.
The Human Cell Atlas Team
Table of Contents
* HCA community reconvenes at the 2022 General Meeting
* The HCA Latin America network holds second Symposium
* HCA Website Updates
* New information from the Ethics Working Group
* HCA Social Media
* HCA Data Coordination Platform
* Third European Commission H2020 - HCA Cluster Newsletter
* HCA Africa Computational Workshops (virtual)
* HCA Asia Meeting, Bangkok, 3 - 4 November, 2022 (hybrid)
* HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting, 20 - 22 November, 2022 (hybrid)
* Scholars at Risk
* HCA Townhall events
* New Member of the HCA Executive Office
* All Upcoming Events
* Useful Contacts
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** HCA community reconvenes at the 2022 General Meeting
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The Human Cell Atlas community came together for a wonderful three days at the hybrid annual HCA General Meeting in June held in Vienna, Austria and online. The meeting focused on progress to date, the bionetworks and preparing for atlas integration. Attendees from 53 countries included 221 in-person and 654 virtual participants.
You can see recordings of the 2022 HCA General Meeting on our Youtube (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and Bilibili (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) sites.
** The HCA Latin America network holds second Symposium
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The Human Cell Atlas Latin America Symposium was held virtually on 6-7 October 2022. It brought together Latin American scientists and researchers worldwide to discuss and share research on single-cell technologies and expand the network. About 170 participants from 22 countries joined the talks and discussion rooms. Videos will be available soon on HCA YouTube (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and Bilibili (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) .
** HCA Website Updates
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We have added a new Search feature to the HCA website, and are continuing to add and update webpages including the HCA legal entities (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and HCA research on COVID-19 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) pages.
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** New information from the Ethics Working Group
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Ethics toolkits are available at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… . Please check out the recent additions, including:
* Pediatrics Consent templates.
+ Main parental/mature minor consent form (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
+ Assent and information form (7-11 years old) (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
+ Consent form for use of pediatric leftover clinical tissue (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
+ Consent form for pediatric rare disease research (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
+ Consent for research use of newborn blood spots (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
* Ethics and Data Governance document (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) - An overview of HCA and its ethical governance in simple terms, offering useful background documents.
* Material and Data Transfer Agreement template (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… )
* Additional reading – Pediatrics: Thematic background ‘primers’ have been developed to explore issues on Children’s right to Health (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) (Robyn McDougall, Dimitri Patrinos) and Children’s Data Protection (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) (Michael J.S. Beauvais).
** HCA Social Media
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HCA is now on LinkedIn! Please visit and follow the new HCA LinkedIn (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) page.
You can also follow HCA on Twitter (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) , Facebook (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) , Youtube (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and Bilibili (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) .
Join the 2285 HCA members on the Human Cell Atlas Slack channel (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) to engage with the HCA community, including a #Jobs channel.
** HCA Data Coordination Platform
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The Data Coordination Platform (DCP) team is collaborating with atlas builders from the different HCA Biological Networks to bring all the raw data and matrices together into the Data Portal.
Please help the HCA community build an atlas by contacting the DCP wrangler team (mailto:wrangler-team@data.humancellatlas.org) and submitting your data. This can include raw sequencing data, CELLxGENE matrices and cell type annotation. Matrices produced from managed-access datasets are also encouraged.
The wrangler team (mailto:wrangler-team@data.humancellatlas.org) can also help format and standardize metadata and make matrices accessible from other portals like CELLxGENE and UCSC Cell Browser.
To date, the Data Coordination Platform (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) (DCP) hosts data from an estimated 30.6 million cells. Since May 2022, the DCP has added 4.3 million cells (30.6 million total), 27 projects (288 total), 1,200 donors (4,500 total), and 1,900 samples (13,300 total).
Join the #dcp-users (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) slack channel to learn about the latest data in the Data Portal and connect with other data users.
** Third European Commission H2020 - HCA Cluster Newsletter
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Read the third and final newsletter (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) about six HCA pilot actions (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) that were funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme (H2020).
** HCA Africa Computational Workshops (virtual)
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HCA is hosting virtual workshops to introduce Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis tools and techniques to researchers based in Africa, thanks to support by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The first HCA Africa Workshop took place on 17 – 20 October. Due to great demand, the Workshop will be re-run on 14 – 17 November 2022. Both workshops are fully booked with 160 people participating from 16 African countries. Additional workshops are being planned in Africa and elsewhere.
** HCA Asia Meeting, Bangkok, 3 - 4 November, 2022 (hybrid)
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The hybrid HCA Asia Meeting 2022 will be held on 3 - 4 November, in-person in Bangkok, Thailand and online. The meeting will bring researchers together to share updates and insights, to broaden representation of communities across the Asia-Pacific region, and to enhance scientific impact in the region and across the globe.
Register for the HCA Asia meeting at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li…
** HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting, 20 - 22 November, 2022 (hybrid)
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The second HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting will take place on 20 – 22 November in Paris, France and online. Bringing together the Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas community, the meeting will share updates and insights on implementing the proposed strategies outlined in the HCA Developmental roadmap (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) .
Please register at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li…
** Scholars at Risk
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The Human Cell Atlas consortium is an Affiliate Member of Scholars at Risk, a US-based non-governmental organization that protects scholars facing grave threats to their lives, liberty, and well-being, in part by arranging short-term (typically one-year) positions of sanctuary at institutions in its network. HCA members who are potentially interested in hosting an at-risk scholar can register their interest at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . No commitment is necessary to join the registry.
** HCA Townhall events
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Join us for the virtual HCA Townhall events organised for 6 December 2022 and 26 April 2023, where we will be celebrating our progress to date and discuss plans for building Atlas 1.0. Everyone welcome!
** New Member of the HCA Executive Office
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** HCA Archivist - Ayah Al-Rawni
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Ayah has joined the HCA administrative team in the UK as Archivist. She will capture and preserve materials about HCA’s history, collaborative research activities and scientific achievements, to ensure that they are accessible and usable in the future. The archive will be a valuable information resource. Ayah is also working on implementing HCA information governance policies.
To contact Ayah about the Archive, email archive(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:archive@humancellatlas.org)
** All Upcoming Events
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* 17-20 October 2022
+ HCA Africa Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis tools and techniques Workshop
* 03-04 November 2022
+ HCA Asia 2022 Meeting (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid)
* 10 November 2022
+ HCA Bionetworks Seminar: Data Submission Guidelines; Ethics Working Group updates and Q&A
* 14-17 November 2022
+ HCA Africa Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis tools and techniques Workshop
* 20-22 November 2022
+ HCA Development and Pediatric Meeting 2022 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) Paris, France (hybrid)
* 06 December 2022
+ HCA-wide Town Hall meeting
* 09 February 2023
+ HCA Bionetworks seminar focused on Atlas Integration and the HCA Cell Annotation Platform
* 09 March 2023
+ HCA Bionetworks Seminar: Focus on Technology
* 27 April 2023
+ HCA-wide Town Hall meeting
HCA events (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) are open to all, so please feel free to share this information with anyone in your community that may be interested in attending.
We hope you will find the content informative and useful.
Please send any comments or suggestions for the newsletter to newsletter(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:newsletter@humancellatlas.org)
** Useful Contacts
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General Enquires - hca(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:hca@humancellatlas.org)
Meeting Enquiry - meetings(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:meetings@humancellatlas.org) or asia-meetings(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:asia-meetings@humancellatlas.org)
Ethics Help Desk - ethics-help(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:ethics-help@humancellatlas.org)
DCP Help Desk - data-help(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:data-help@humancellatlas.org)
HCA Executive Office Team - team(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:team@humancellatlas.org)
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