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 27-29th 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.
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 [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com].
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.
The HCA Biological Networks [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] 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 [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] 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 [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] page, which includes guidelines and an FAQ for researchers as well as a new section [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] featuring presentations and benchmarking papers from the Standards and Technology Working Group.
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.
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.
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