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Issue 11: May 2022
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Dear HCA Members,

Welcome to the eleventh Human Cell Atlas newsletter!

We are looking forward to the next HCA General Meeting on June 27-29th 2022! The meeting will focus on integrating communities and atlas building with the Biological Networks, to help map a path towards the first draft of the HCA. We do hope you can join us, either in Vienna or online!

The global HCA community has more than 2,300 members from 83 countries working together to create an open, representative Human Cell Atlas. As part of this effort we are delighted to report on the first HCA Africa Symposium, helping to connect researchers and create further opportunities for collaborative HCA science. We’re looking forward to further global events and engagement this year.

We hope you will enjoy the news from our community, highlighting the great collaborative spirit and the wonderful science that we do together.

Best regards,

The Human Cell Atlas Team
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Human Cell Atlas General Meeting - June 27-29th, 2022

The next HCA General Meeting, June 27 – 29th 2022, will be held in Vienna, Austria as a hybrid meeting with in-person and virtual attendance. The General Meeting will focus on 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. 

You can still register for virtual attendance at https://events.humancellatlas.org/2022gm [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com]

Inaugural Human Cell Atlas Africa Symposium Highlights

The first HCA Africa Symposium took place on 20-22nd March 2022 to raise awareness about HCA in the African scientific community and nucleate groups who can benefit from and contribute to HCA at a regional and global level. More than 135 people from 24 countries joined us virtually for the talks and discussions.

You can watch recordings at YouTube [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] and Bilibili [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com].

HCA Website Updates

We are continuing to add and update pages on the HCA website.

HCA Data Portals

The new Data Portals webpage https://www.humancellatlas.org/portals/ [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] highlights single-cell data analysis portals to facilitate the visualization and analysis of HCA data. Each portal has unique features and utilities. 

Please add your datasets to all of these portals, and alert us to opportunities to create further HCA-specific data collections.
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HCA Data Coordination Platform

Please submit your data to the Data Coordination Platform (DCP). This can include raw sequencing data, or raw and annotated cell-by-gene matrices. The data Wrangler team are available to help.

Submission of managed-access data is also encouraged as matrices can be anonymized even if the raw data is held in managed-access platforms. The DCP team are helping to standardize cell-by-gene matrices so they are accessible by external portals like cellxgene, in order to enable data sharing from live donors.

To date, the Data Coordination Platform [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] hosts data from an estimated 26 million cells. Since January 2022, the DCP has added 5.1 million cells; 42 projects (237 total); 800 donors (3,300 total) and 1,600 samples (11,400 total).



Please join the new #dcp-users [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] Slack channel, to learn when the latest data becomes available in the DCP, and connect with other data users.  You can also talk to the DCP team at the HCA General Meeting, please mail data-help@humancellatlas.org to connect.

Careers in Science: A Panel Discussion

Nearly four dozen early-career scientists joined us on 24th May 2022 to hear experts on scientific publishing, science policy and science philanthropy discuss their career paths and seek advice on preparing for these and other science careers.
The video is available on Youtube - Careers in Science: A Panel Discussion [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com].
A second panel is being planned for the early fall.

Second European Commission H2020 - HCA Cluster Newsletter

Read the second H2020 – HCA Cluster newsletter [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com]  to get the latest news about the six HCA pilot actions [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme (H2020). 

Save the Dates

Second HCA Latin America Symposium (virtual): 6 - 7 October, 2022

Since the first HCA Latin America Meeting in 2020, the interest in single-cell related technologies has grown exponentially in Latin American countries. The second HCA Latin America Meeting will take place virtually 6-7th October 2022.  Jointly organized by a Program Committee from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico with support from the HCA Executive Office, the meeting will introduce and discuss projects addressing single-cell genomics carried out by Latin American researchers, promoting further collaborations.

HCA Asia Meeting: 3 - 4 November, 2022

The HCA Asia 2022 Meeting will take place as a hybrid meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. It 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.

HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas Meeting: 20 - 22 November, 2022

The hybrid meeting will be held in Paris, France, and aims to bring our community of scientists, computational biologists, clinicians, and ethicists together and share updates and insights on implementing the proposed Developmental [humancellatlas.us19.list-manage.com] roadmap strategies.

Upcoming Events


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New Member of the HCA Executive Office

HCA Web Developer - Pedro Martins

We are pleased to introduce Pedro Martins who joined the HCA Executive office in April as the HCA Web Developer. Pedro is a front-end web developer who started freelancing in 2010 and since 2016 worked as a full-time developer for a software company in Cambridge – Imagen.io. He is now responsible for the development and maintenance of the HCA public website.
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Meeting Enquiry - meetings@humancellatlas.org or asia-meetings@humancellatlas.org
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