Welcome to the ninth Human Cell Atlas newsletter! We hope that you are keeping well.
The virtual 2021 HCA General Meeting in June was a great success with the largest attendance to date. This and other recent meetings show the value of collaboration and bringing people together to achieve our goals. We are looking forward to the upcoming HCA Asia meeting next month, which will continue to enhance scientific excellence and collaboration across the globe.
We hope you will enjoy the news from our community, highlighting the collaborative spirit and fabulous science of HCA members.
November 15 - 16 2021
We’re looking forward to the fifth HCA Asia Meeting, which will take place virtually on November 15 – 16th, 2021. The meeting aims to synergize on common goals with shared interests, to broaden representation of communities across Asia, and to enhance scientific impact in the region and across the globe. Main sessions will take place 9.30-5.30 CST / AWST.
HCA General Meeting 2021 (Virtual)
The 10th HCA General Meeting was held virtually June 28 – 30th, 2021. More than 1200 people from 43 countries joined us to hear updates on cross-cutting HCA technologies and computational advancements.
The event website here [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] will be live until June 2022. You can log on to view the
program and recordings and learn more about the speakers and panellists.
Latin America Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis Workshop 2021 (Virtual)
The HCA Latin America Network is gaining momentum after the second HCA Latin America Workshop, 26th April - 7th May. This workshop taught participants how to design single-cell RNA-seq experiments, and manage and analyze data. The two-week program included a week-long, hands-on workshop where participants analyzed single-cell RNA-seq datasets from different cancer types. HCA is grateful to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for their support for this activity.
Human Cell Atlas – Data Governance Landscape. Anticipated for publication Fall 2021.
Human Cell Atlas – Consent Clauses and Assent Form: Pediatric Research. Developed in collaboration with GA4GH, and to be shared on the GA4GH and HCA websites in Fall 2021.
Human Cell Atlas – Legal and Ethical Cartography - National Implementation of the United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989-2021). First draft anticipated December 2021.
HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting 2021 (Virtual)
The first HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting occurred virtually on August 28 – 30th, 2021. With more than 600 participants and 41 speakers and breakout session leaders across 31 countries, it successfully brought members of different communities and disciplines together to help build the human development and pediatric atlas projects. This community plans to meet again in Autumn 2022 in Paris, France. Stay tuned for more information.
Log into the event site here [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] to view the program and recordings, as well as to learn more about speakers and panelists. The website will be available until August 2022.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $33 million in grants to support 17 collaborative groups of researchers and pediatricians to contribute healthy pediatric single-cell reference data to the HCA, to better understand, prevent, and treat childhood diseases.
These groups of researchers represent 15 different countries, and the reference data will be a foundational resource for providing insight into the cellular origins of disease onset in children.
HCA Data Coordination Platform
The Data Coordination Platform (DCP) [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] now hosts data from nearly 20 million cells, with the number of contributions growing each month. You can explore the new projects, uniform analyses and cell-by-gene matrices and follow the latest updates on the DCP website.
Since the last newsletter, we are pleased to announce that Analytical BioScience has been added to the list of companies that provide discounts to HCA Collaborating Members.
Human Cell Atlas Meeting 2022 (Hybrid)
The next HCA General Meeting will take place June 27 – 29th 2022, in Vienna, Austria. We are currently exploring ways to maximize capacity, as well as add a virtual component to the meeting. More information will be available soon.
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