Events

HCA Town Hall, Virtual

2023 HCA Asia Meeting, Kolkata, India

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. To maximize audience participation and accessibility, sessions will be live-streamed and made available for on-demand viewing on our event site.

HCA Middle East Symposium, Virtual

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. Agenda to come soon.

2023 HCA Latin America Workshop, Santiago, Chile

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. Space will be limited, therefore applications will be considered by the Programme Committee and successful applicants will be notified shortly after the application deadline.

HCA Biological Networks Seminar Series featuring the Adipose Network, Virtual

2023 HCA General Meeting , Toronto, Canada

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

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring: Focus on Technology: Advances in Spatial Omics, Virtual

HCA-wide Town Hall, Virtual

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.

HCA Africa 2023 Computational and Experimental Design Workshop, University of Ghana

AAAS Annual Meeting, USA

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring Atlas Integration and Cell Annotation Platform (CAP), Virtual

HCA-wide Town Hall, Virtual

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.

HCA Developmental and Pediatric Cell Atlas 2022 Meeting, Paris, France, Hybrid

HCA Africa: Introduction to Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis Workshop - RE-RUN, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Series: Focus on Data Submission Guidelines and Ethical Considerations, Virtual

HCA 2022 Asia Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, Hybrid

HCA Africa: Introduction to Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Kidney Network, Virtual

HCA 2022 Latin America Symposium, Virtual

Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) - 10th annual Plenary Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

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 2022 Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) Summer F2F meeting,  Portland, Oregon, USA, Hybrid

HCA 2022 General Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Hybrid

HUTER Project Training, Virtual

Careers in Science: A Panel Discussion, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Immune Network, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Reproduction Network, Virtual

HCA 2022 Africa Symposium, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series: Focus on Technology, Virtual

HCA Biological Seminar Series featuring the Pediatric Cell Atlas, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Eye and Pancreas Networks, Virtual

HCA Asia Meeting 2021, Virtual

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. 

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Nervous System Network, Virtual

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) - 9th annual Plenary Meeting , Virtual

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) will hold its 9th annual Plenary Meeting on September 28 and 29, 2021. As an open, free, and virtual event, 9th Plenary aims to convene the global genomics and health community to advance genomic and related health data sharing across technical, ethical, and regulatory bounds. The meeting will occur over the course of two daily time blocks convenient to different time zones to encourage broad participation. All talks will be available online after the meeting. 

HCA Development and Pediatric Atlas Meeting, Virtual

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.

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Oral/Craniofacial and Skin Networks, Virtual

HCA General Meeting, Virtual

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

Townhall Briefings for HCA General Meeting, Virtual

In advance of the 2021 HCA General Meeting, we have four Townhall Briefing events to welcome new people to the HCA community, reveal recent developments in the HCA and demonstrate the event management platform for the General Meeting.

An Introduction to the Oral & Craniofacial Biological Network, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Heart and Musculoskeletal Networks, Virtual

HCA Latin America Single-Cell RNA-SEQ Data Analysis Workshop, Virtual

HCA Development Preimplantation, Fertility and Gestation Seminar, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Gut and Genetic Diversity Networks, Virtual

HCA Diversity funding call with CZI in Australasia, Virtual

Monday, April 5, 7:00 - 8:00 pm EDT / Tuesday, April 6, 10:00 - 11:00 am AEDT

HCA Patterns and Matching: A way of doing things, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Developmental and Organoids Networks, Virtual

Meet Human Cell Atlas Members - Q&A, Virtual

Importance and Challenges of Increasing Ethnic Diversity in Human Genomics Research, Virtual

Human Cell Atlas Developmental Muscle Development Seminar, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Adipose and Lung Networks, Virtual

HCA Member Lunchtime Post Pack Design Session, Virtual

HCA Developmental Computational Modeling Asia and Australia Seminar, Virtual

HGM 2021, Israel

HCA Developmental Computational Modelling Seminar, Virtual

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Breast and Liver Networks, Virtual

HCA Member Lunchtime Seminar, Virtual

HCA Teacher CPD and School Challenge National Launch, Virtual

HUMAN CELL ATLAS DEVELOPMENTAL CLINICAL AND RARE DISEASE ASIA & AUSTRALIA, Virtual

Human Cell Atlas Developmental Clinical and Rare Disease Applications , Virtual

Medicine by Design 5th Annual Symposium, Virtual

Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci Salons , Virtual

Human Cell Atlas (HCA) UK: One Cell At A Time ArtSci Exchange, Virtual

Wellcome Single Cell Biology, Cambridge, Virtual

HUMAN CELL ATLAS DEVELOPMENT NEURONS ASIA & AUSTRALIA , Virtual

ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Symposium on Bioinformatics 2020, Virtual 

HUMAN CELL ATLAS DEVELOPMENT NEURONS SEMINAR, Virtual

HCA Asia, Virtual

HCA COVID-19 Symposium (part 2), Virtual

HCA COVID-19 Symposium (part 1), Virtual

HCA LATIN AMERICA WORKSHOP, 24-25 SEPTEMBER, 2020, Virtual

From Stem Cells to Human Development, Virtual

HUMAN CELL ATLAS DEVELOPMENTAL STEM CELL, ORGANOID MODELS, AND REGENERATIVE BIOLOGY ASIA & AUSTRALIA SEMINAR, Virtual

HUMAN CELL ATLAS DEVELOPMENTAL STEM CELL, ORGANOID MODELS AND REGENERATIVE BIOLOGY VIRTUAL SEMINAR, Virtual

Human Cell Atlas Developmental Spatial Cell Mapping Asia & Australia , Virtual

HCA Developmental Spatial Cell Mapping Seminar, Virtual

Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci Salon I The New Normal, Virtual Public Event

CZI Seed Networks Computational Biology Meeting, Virtual

(Seed Networks Computational Investigators)

HCA Development Lung Seminar, Virtual

Single Cell Analysis: From Development to Disease, Tel Aviv, Israel

Virtual

HuBMAP Annual Meeting, USA

Human Genome Meeting, Virtual

HCA-NIH collaboration meeting, Virtual

Wellcome-HCA meeting, London

(invitation only)

AAAS Annual Meeting, USA

EU-H2020 kick-off, Brussels

(invitation only)

HCA Asia Meeting, Singapore

HCA Equity Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

HCA General Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

HCA Equity Roadshow, Sao Paolo, Brazil

HCA General Meeting, Tokyo, Japan

HCA Asia Meeting, Jeju, Republic of Korea

HCA General Meeting, Cambridge, MA

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.

HCA Jamboree, Cambridge, MA

HCA General Meeting, Hinxton, UK

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.

HCA Asia Meeting, Okinawa, Japan

Workshop on Model Systems, Organoids and the Human Cell Atlas, Berlin

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.

HCA General Meeting, Rehovot

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.

HCA Jamboree, Cambridge, UK

HCA Computational Methods, Stockholm

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.

HCA Technology Development, Stanford, CA

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.

Human Cell Atlas Launch Meeting, London

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.