Events Calendar

The 2025 HCA General Meeting focused on sharing updates on assembling HCA Atlases of specific tissues, planning for the release of the first draft Human Cell Atlas, with additional discussions on integrating AI and spatial genomics technologies, to expand the Human Cell Atlas beyond the first draft.

The 2024 HCA Asia Meeting updated the community on HCA progress and achievements, and shared HCA initiatives and the latest research insights, highlighting the exceptional research and innovations emerging in Asia.

Please join us if you want to actively contribute to building the next phase of the Human Cell Atlas. To maximize audience participation and accessibility, sessions will be live-streamed and made available for on-demand viewing for registered participants on our event site.

This Symposium will enhance knowledge sharing within the Latin America Community and encourage local researchers to participate and collaborate with the global HCA. Registration will open in late May.

This Single Cell RNA-Seq workshop is aimed at participants in Asia and will cater to both experimental and computational researchers. We will have two tracks, each with curricula tailored toward the two cohorts, although both will learn crossover techniques. Participants should have a baseline proficiency in the track to which they apply.

Please join HCA Co-Chairs Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann online, discussing our progress towards the assembly of the Human Cell Atlas and previewing the HCA General Meeting.

Join us for the HCA-wide December Town Hall meeting to hear HCA updates and plans for 2024. The online meeting will include an atlas assembly progress report and priorities for future expansion, plus audience Q&A with the panel.

The HCA Asia Meeting aims to enhance the capabilities of data generation and analysis, uptake of technologies, and trans-national collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region. It will include plenary sessions for “recent findings on cell atlases”, “newly-introduced technologies”, “computational approaches for large-scale studies”, and “diseases relevant to the Asian population”, followed by panel and breakout discussions for the Asia-centric projects. 

The virtual HCA Middle East 2023 Symposium aims to connect researchers and create opportunities for the formation of new groups and collaborations working on single-cell and spatial genomics, computational techniques, and other methods. 

This Single Cell RNA-Seq workshop is aimed at participants in Latin America and will cater to both experimental and computational researchers. We will have two tracks, each with curricula tailored toward the two cohorts, although both will learn crossover techniques. Participants should have a baseline proficiency in the track to which they apply. 

The General Meeting will include an update on progress towards the first draft of the Human Cell Atlas, followed by plenary talks, lightning sessions and breakout discussions exploring the future expansion of the Atlas. As well as integrating and querying the atlas, topics will include machine learning, spatial transcriptomics and multi-omics. To maximize audience participation and accessibility, sessions will be live-streamed and made available for on-demand viewing on our event site

Please join us for the HCA-wide Town Hall meeting on 27 April, to hear HCA updates, plans for the General Meeting 2023, and participate in an audience Q&A with the panel.

Join us for the HCA-wide December Town Hall meeting to hear HCA updates and plans for 2023. The online meeting will include Atlas Integration and Cell Annotation updates, and audience Q&A with the panel.

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) will hold its 10th annual Plenary Meeting on September 22-23 2022. Co-hosted by Bioinformatics Barcelona, the meeting unites the genomics and health community for two days of conversation on data sharing. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about GA4GH’s technical standards, policy frameworks, and implementations.

The aims of the 5th Human Cell Atlas Asia Meeting are 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. 

This HCA meeting will focus on creating maps of healthy human development and pediatric tissues. The goal is to energise and bring together multiple communities to develop the human development and pediatric atlas projects.

To virtually convene the HCA community to share insights to date from HCA and kick-start new initiatives and collaborations.

Please join us for a 1 hour lunchtime workshop that collaboratively explores Stacey Pitsillides and Holly Standing’s commission entitled "Embodying Normality: Donate my Body, Bequeath my Data".

The How to Build a Human: Design a Card Game Challenge is designed to stretch your students’ imagination and develop their creativity skills by learning all about the Human Cell Atlas.

The How to Build a Human: Design a Card Game Challenge is designed to stretch your students’ imagination and develop their creativity skills by learning all about the Human Cell Atlas (HCA).

(Seed Networks Computational Investigators)

Online symposium, jointly organised by Tel Aviv University, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

This meeting was by invitation only.

This meeting was by invitation only.

Hosted by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This meeting will focus on the work of the networks to build atlases of key organs including lung, gut, brain, immune, heart, vasculature, kidney and liver. We will hear updates on progress in data collection and analysis, discuss plans for organ-wide mapping, provide updates on the activities of the HCA Working Groups and hear about the Data Coordination Platform.

Hosted by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and supported by the Kavli Foundation and Wellcome. As we have now launched the generation of the first draft of the Atlas, this meeting will aim to report and discuss the progress of projects working towards this goal.

Hosted by the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC). Jointly organised by Nikolaus Rajewsky and Ido Amit.

Hosted by the Weizmann Institute of Science, this meeting will discuss the progress that the Human Cell Atlas has made in a year since the Launch Meeting and will make plans to ensure further success in the future.

Hosted by the Karolinska Institute and kindly supported by The Kavli Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Broad Institute, and an anonymous donor.

This Human Cell Atlas meeting was held at Stanford University on 23–24 February 2017, hosted by The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Chan Zuckerberg Science.

The International Human Cell Atlas Initiative was launched at a meeting at The Wellcome Trust in London on Oct 13-14 2016. Here, experts from around the world – convened by Wellcome, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard – met to discuss how to shape the Human Cell Atlas.