[Oral-network] Human Cell Atlas Newsletter - January 2022 [EXT]

Welcome to the tenth Human Cell Atlas newsletter https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ** Issue 10: January 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… Dear HCA Members, Welcome to the tenth Human Cell Atlas newsletter! We hope that you are having a good start to 2022 and are keeping well. Maintaining connections among our global community is essential for the mission of HCA. In November the 2021 HCA Asia (virtual) meeting brought together more than 400 attendees from 24 countries, helping to enhance scientific excellence and collaboration across the world. We’re looking forward to further global events and engagement this year. The HCA Biological Networks are developing roadmaps for building atlases of individual organs and systems. The establishment of these roadmaps is a key milestone for HCA this year and atlas building will be a major focus of the next HCA General Meeting, June 27-29^th 2022. Please save the General Meeting date in your diaries now, to make sure you can attend. We hope you will enjoy this newsletter, which highlights the great community spirit, events and news generated by the HCA membership. Best regards, The Human Cell Atlas Team Table of Contents * Human Cell Atlas General Meeting - June 27-29th, 2022 * Human Cell Atlas Africa 2022 Symposium * Biological Networks and Roadmaps * Website Updates * HCA Publications - Paper Approval Procedure * European Commission H2020-HCA Cluster Newsletter * CZI Ancestry Networks * Data Coordination Platform * HCA 2021 Asia Meeting Highlights * International Training Workshop on Single Cell Transcriptomics (Virtual) * Upcoming Events * Useful Contacts https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ** Human Cell Atlas General Meeting - June 27-29th, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------ Please save the date for the next HCA General Meeting, to be held June 27–29th, 2022, in Vienna, Austria. We are planning for a hybrid meeting with in-person and virtual attendance; however, details will depend on the pandemic situation at the time. The focus of the General Meeting is “Building draft atlases, integrating across communities, and maximizing impact.” Together, we will connect, plan and map a path towards the first draft of the atlas. Registration details and further updates to follow on the HCA Events page (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . ** Human Cell Atlas Africa 2022 Symposium ------------------------------------------------------------ The inaugural HCA Africa Symposium will be held virtually on March 21–22nd 2022. The symposium aims to connect researchers and create opportunities for the formation of new groups and collaborations working on single-cell and spatial genomics, computational techniques, and other methods. More information to follow on the HCA Events page (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . ** Biological Networks and Roadmaps ------------------------------------------------------------ The HCA Biological Networks (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) are drafting individual roadmaps describing how they plan to construct an atlas for their specific organ or system. These comprehensive and community-generated roadmaps will be vital tools as the HCA community continues to make progress toward the first draft of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA 1.0). The ongoing Bionetwork Seminar Series (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) will continue with updates from Biological Networks as well as HCA working groups. The next webinar will be held on February 10th and will focus on Pediatric Cell Atlas research, including work from the HCA Ethics Working Group. The March 10th webinar will feature a discussion on multimodal profiling and spatial and imaging technologies led by members of the HCA Standards and Technology Working Group. ** Website Updates ------------------------------------------------------------ We are continuing to update pages on the HCA website to include new information and improve navigation. Check out our Resources (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) page, which includes guidelines and an FAQ for researchers as well as a new section (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) featuring presentations and benchmarking papers from the Standards and Technology Working Group. ** HCA Publications - Paper Approval Procedure ------------------------------------------------------------ Manuscripts are reviewed by the HCA Publication Committee for approval as HCA publications. We encourage any HCA member to submit their complete draft paper or preprint for review using this form (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . Full details are available here (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . So far, 98 papers have been approved by the HCA Publications Committee. See them here (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . ** European Commission H2020-HCA Cluster Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------ Six HCA pilot actions (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) were started in 2020, funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme (H2020). Read the first H2020 – HCA Cluster newsletter (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) to get the latest news about these projects. Data will be made available through the Data Coordination Platform. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ** CZI Ancestry Networks ------------------------------------------------------------ The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) (CZI) announced $28 million in grants for new Ancestry Networks for the Human Cell Atlas (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) , supporting the inclusion of data from tissue samples from ancestrally diverse donors. The new projects will provide insights into how genetic ancestry influences health and disease at the level of our cells, resulting in a scientific resource that will be more representative of the diversity found in the global human population. For more information on the grants, visit the CZI Ancestry Networks for the Human Cell Atlas website (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ** Data Coordination Platform ------------------------------------------------------------ Data contributions continue to grow, with the Data Coordination Platform (DCP) (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) now hosting data from approximately 20 million cells. Since January 2021, the DCP has added 14.2 million cells; 151 projects (195 total); 2,068 donors (2,500 total) and 8,722 samples (9,800 total). https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… You can explore the new projects, uniform analyses, and cell-by-gene matrices in the DCP’s Data Browser (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and follow the latest platform updates (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) on the Data Portal. Please contact the Wrangler team at wrangler-team(a)data.humancellatlas.org (mailto:wrangler-team@data.humancellatlas.org) for contribution questions, particularly if you have HCA data that you think should be part of the atlas. The DCP data wranglers are also hosting monthly office hours (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . ** HCA 2021 Asia Meeting Highlights ------------------------------------------------------------ The 5th HCA Asia Meeting was held virtually on November 15–16th, 2021. With more than 400 participants and 42 speakers joining us from 24 countries, the meeting brought together the Asia-Pacific research community and fostered cooperation on common goals and interests. You can log onto the event website here (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) until November 2022, to view the program and recordings. You can also watch recordings via 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… ) . Many thanks to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) and Wellcome Trust (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) for the generous support in making this meeting possible. ** International Training Workshop on Single Cell Transcriptomics (Virtual) ------------------------------------------------------------ Organized jointly by the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) in India and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) , USA, the International Training Workshop on Single Cell Transcriptomics took place online January 17th-22nd, 2022. Worldwide, 220 people enrolled with participants from many developing countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. The six-day workshop used videos to teach experimental protocols and included training in data analysis and integration. This workshop was possible due to the generous funding from the Indian Academy of Sciences. (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) ** Upcoming Events ------------------------------------------------------------ * Focus on Pediatrics (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) - Biological Network Seminar + 10 February 2022 * Focus on Technology (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) - Biological Network Seminar + 10 March 2022 * HCA Africa Symposium (Virtual) + 21-22 March 2022 * Reproduction (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) Biological Network Seminar + 14 April 2022 * Immune (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) Biological Network Seminar + 12 May 2022 * Biological Network Seminar, including Kidney (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) + 09 June 2022 * HCA General Meeting 2022 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . Vienna, Austria (Hybrid) + 27-29 June 2022 * HCA Development and Pediatric Meeting 2022 (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . Paris, France (Hybrid) + 20-22 November 2022 HCA events are free and open to all, so please feel free to share this information with anyone in your community that may be interested in attending. Further details about HCA events (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) are available here (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__humancellatlas.us19.li… ) . We hope you will find the content informative and useful. 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