Welcome to the eleventh Human Cell Atlas newsletter
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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
Table of Contents
* Human Cell Atlas General Meeting - June 27-29th, 2022
* Inaugural Human Cell Atlas Africa Symposium Highlights
* HCA Website Updates
* HCA Data Portals
* HCA Data Coordination Platform
* Careers in Science: A Panel Discussion
* Second European Commission H2020 - HCA Cluster Newsletter
* Save the Dates
* Upcoming Events
* New Member of the HCA Executive Office
* Useful Contacts
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** Human Cell Atlas General Meeting - June 27-29th, 2022
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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
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** Inaugural Human Cell Atlas Africa Symposium Highlights
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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
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) and Bilibili
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) .
** HCA Website Updates
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We are continuing to add and update pages on the HCA website.
* Equity Working Group: The HCA Equity Working Group page at
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reveals steps taken to increase global representation within the HCA and includes the
recent letter to Nature
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) about HCA’s commitment to Humanity
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) .
* Ethics Working Group: The Ethics Working Group have created some new Ethics Toolkits,
which are available at
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.
** HCA Data Portals
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The new Data Portals webpage
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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
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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
(mailto:wrangler-team@data.humancellatlas.org) 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
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) 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
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) 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(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:data-help@humancellatlas.org) to
connect.
** Careers in Science: A Panel Discussion
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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
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) .
A second panel is being planned for the early fall.
** Second European Commission H2020 - HCA Cluster Newsletter
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Read the second H2020 – HCA Cluster newsletter
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) to get the latest news about the six HCA pilot actions
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) funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework
Programme (H2020).
** Save the Dates
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** Second HCA Latin America Symposium (virtual): 6 - 7 October, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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) roadmap strategies.
** Upcoming Events
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* 09 June 2022
+ Biological Network Seminar, featuring the HCA Kidney
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) Biological Network.
* 23 June 2022
+ HUTER training session
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* 27-29 June 2022
+ HCA General Meeting 2022
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) - Vienna, Austria (Hybrid)
* 06-07 October 2022
+ HCA Latin America Symposium 2022
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) (Virtual)
* 03-04 November 2022
+ HCA Asia 2022 Meeting
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) - Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid)
* 20-22 November 2022
+ HCA Development and Pediatric Meeting 2022
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) - Paris, France (Hybrid)
HCA events
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) 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.
** New Member of the HCA Executive Office
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** HCA Web Developer - Pedro Martins
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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.
We hope you will find the content informative and useful. If you have any suggestions or
comments for the newsletter, please send them to newsletter(a)humancellatlas.org
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** Useful Contacts
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General Enquires - hca(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:hca@humancellatlas.org)
Meeting Enquiry - meetings(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:meetings@humancellatlas.org) or
asia-meetings(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:asia-meetings@humancellatlas.org)
Ethics Help Desk - ethics-help(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:ethics-help@humancellatlas.org)
DCP Help Desk - data-help(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:data-help@humancellatlas.org)
HCA Executive Office Team - team(a)humancellatlas.org (mailto:team@humancellatlas.org)
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