Five years after the first HCA White Paper, our international consortium has grown to include 18 Biological Networks and more than 2,600 HCA members from 86 countries. Having sequenced and characterized more than 100 million cells so far, progress from our open global community is accelerating towards the creation of the Human Cell Atlas 1.0 and is expanding the focus on cell annotation and integration.
We all contribute to the HCA community in different ways to help create the Atlas, including contributing data to the HCA, developing methods or technology, attending HCA meetings, and submitting papers for inclusion on the HCA Publications webpage. Everyone’s input is important and we thank you for all your contributions.
We hope you will enjoy this newsletter highlighting the great collaborative spirit, fantastic open community, and wonderful science that we do together.
The 2023 Human Cell Atlas General Meeting will be held on 10-12 July, 2023, in Toronto, Canada, at the MaRS Centre. The GM will focus on integration and continuing progress towards building the first draft of the Human Cell Atlas, including connecting and leveraging diverse communities, reference maps, data assembly and computational efforts. The meeting will also explore machine learning approaches in Atlas construction. More details to follow at https://events.humancellatlas.org/2023gm/home [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com]
New Members of the HCA Organising Committee
The HCA Organising Committee (OC), the multinational governing body of the HCA, is delighted to announce [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] that Christine Wells, Christoph Bock, Fabian Theis, Fabiana Arzuaga, Patricia Severino and Shyam Prabhakar have joined the committee.
Co-chaired by Sarah Teichmann and Aviv Regev, the HCA Organising Committee [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] now has 36 members from around the world. Meeting regularly to set policies for HCA, the OC coordinates the activities of the HCA Biological Networks and Working Groups, and determines the overall scientific direction of the HCA.
The Human Cell Atlas Asia 2022 Meeting was held on 3-4 November 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand and online. This meeting featured many collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region as well as pitches for new flagship projects, and included 194 in-person and 133 virtual participants, from 18 countries.
You can see recordings on HCA YouTube [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] and HCA Bilibili [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] sites.
HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting
The Cell Annotation Platform [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] (CAP) is a community-driven resource and data repository, designed to enable standardized cell nomenclature. CAP is currently being populated for researchers to compare cell annotations across studies to help achieve consensus cell annotations for the Human Cell Atlas. An API will soon be released for users to query cell annotations in a standardized way for downstream access.
Are you interested in hosting an at-risk academic scholar who is facing threats to their lives, liberty, and well-being? HCA is an affiliate member of the Scholars at Risk non-governmental organization, and you can indicate your potential interest here [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com].
HCA Senior Programme Manager - Lucia Robson We are delighted to introduce Lucia Robson, who has just joined the HCA Executive Office as HCA Senior Programme Manager. Based in the UK office, Lucia will provide leadership and senior-level programme management coordination for the Human Cell Atlas, including a focus on coordination of Atlas Integration. Previously at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters, Lucia combines a keen interest in genomics with experience designing and executing complex global initiatives that aim to improve human health.
HCA events are 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 are available here [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com].
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