Hi all,
UPDATES: I hope everyone is having a great start to 2021. There are some new members since
we last sent out an update, so welcome to everyone. As a reminder, this email is our
common HCA email address to email the OCBN group. If you need to email the coordinators
specifically, please email Ines and I at
oral@humancellatlas.org<mailto:oral@humancellatlas.org> or use the Slack channel for
any messaging as needed. We will be sending out information soon for a time for us all to
have a virtual meeting to introduce ourselves, our science, and where this group can go in
the future. Stay tuned for more information on that.
CZI RFA: As some of you may know, CZI put a request out for projects focused on
establishing a pediatric cell atlas -- see:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chanzuckerberg.com_rfa…
due March 30th. After discussing internally with HCA and other networks, there is going
to be a very organized response among the well-established networks. With our network
being so young and these grants supporting up to 10 PIs, I am encouraging those interested
to join other network group submissions to better support the CZI RFA and our network in
the long run. To this end, I will be leading a project between the established Lung
Network and our new Oral/Craniofacial Networks. If successful as one part of this larger
initiative, I will make sure that data flows back to the OCBN for further
collaboration/analysis. I know that others are discussing joining other CZI submissions
with the same goal as mine.
If you have ideas about this and want to discuss further, please let me know by either
continuing active conversation within this email chain or by moving to Slack for further
discussion.
Best,
Kevin M. Byrd, DDS, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
Cell Phone: 260-249-4724