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Upcoming Events
11 Sep 2025
Virtual
9-11 Jun 2025
Singapore (Hybrid)
Registration is now open for the 2025 Human Cell Atlas General Meeting to be held on 9 - 11 June 2025 in Singapore, at SingHealth Academy. The meeting will also be live streamed for those who wish to participate virtually.
Past Events
26 Mar 2025
Virtual
23 Jan 2025
Virtual
3-4 Dec 2024
Hong Kong, China (Hybrid)
Registration for the HCA Asia Meeting on 3-4 December, 2024 is now open! The meeting will be held in Hong Kong SAR, China and will be live streamed for those who wish to participate virtually.
13-14 Nov 2024
Virtual
29-30 Sep 2024
Milan, Italy (Hybrid)
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.
29-30 Jul 2024
Brazil, Chile and Mexico (Hybrid)
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.
24-28 Jun 2024
Bangkok, Thailand
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.
5 Jun 2024
Virtual
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.
13 May 2024
Virtual
11 Apr 2024
Virtual
14 Mar 2024
Virtual
14 Dec 2023
Virtual
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.
27-28 Nov 2023
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.
15-16 Nov 2023
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.
23-27 Oct 2023
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.
12 Oct 2023
Virtual
10-12 Jul 2023
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
11-4 May 2023
Virtual
27 Apr 2023
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.
7-10 Mar 2023
University of Ghana
9 Feb 2023
Virtual
6 Dec 2022
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.
20-22 Nov 2022
Paris, France (Hybrid)
14-16 Nov 2022
Virtual
10 Nov 2022
Virtual
3-4 Nov 2022
Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid)
17-20 Oct 2022
Virtual
13 Oct 2022
Virtual
6-7 Oct 2022
Virtual
22-23 Sep 2022
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.
27-29 Jun 2022
Vienna, Austria (Hybrid)
27-28 Jun 2022
Portland, Oregon
23 Jun 2022
Virtual
24 May 2022
Virtual
12 May 2022
Virtual
14 Apr 2022
Virtual
21-22 Mar 2022
Virtual
10 Mar 2022
Virtual
10 Feb 2022
Virtual
9 Dec 2021
Virtual
15-16 Nov 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.
14 Oct 2021
Virtual
28-29 Sep 2021
Virtual
25-27 Aug 2021
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.
8 Jul 2021
Virtual
28-30 Jun 2021
Virtual
To virtually convene the HCA community to share insights to date from HCA and kick-start new initiatives and collaborations.
15-18 Jun 2021
Virtual
10 Jun 2021
Virtual
13 May 2021
Virtual
26 Apr-7 May 2021
12 Apr 2021
Virtual
8 Apr 2021
Virtual
6 Apr 2021
Virtual
16 Mar 2021
Virtual
11 Mar 2021
Virtual
25 Feb 2021
Virtual
24-25 Feb 2021
Virtual
23 Feb 2021
Virtual
11 Feb 2021
Virtual
9 Feb 2021
Virtual
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".
3 Feb 2021
Virtual
1-3 Feb 2021
Israel
28 Jan 2021
Virtual
21 Jan 2021
Virtual
13 Jan 2021
Virtual
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.
8 Jan 2021
Virtual
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).
16 Dec 2020
Virtual
8 Dec 2020
Virtual
7-8 Dec 2020
Virtual
9-11 Nov 2020
Virtual
5 Nov 2020
Virtual
28-29 Oct 2020
Virtual
27 Oct 2020
Virtual
22-23 Oct 2020
Virtual
9 Oct 2020
Virtual
1 Oct 2020
Virtual
24-25 Sep 2020
Virtual
8-11 Sep 2020
Virtual
4 Sep 2020
Virtual
27 Aug 2020
Virtual
3 Aug 2020
Virtual
24 Jul 2020
Virtual
23-25 Jun 2020
Virtual
(Seed Networks Computational Investigators)
17 Jun 2020
Virtual
31 May-1 Jun 2020
Virtual
Online symposium, jointly organised by Tel Aviv University, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
29 Apr-1 May 2020
Virtual
5-8 Apr 2020
Virtual
30-31 Mar 2020
Virtual
9-10 Mar 2020
London
This meeting was by invitation only.
13-16 Feb 2020
USA
13-14 Jan 2020
Brussels
This meeting was by invitation only.
10-11 Nov 2019
Singapore
30 Oct 2019
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
10-11 Oct 2019
Barcelona, Spain
10 Sep 2019
Sao Paolo, Brazil
23-24 May 2019
Tokyo, Japan
11-13 Nov 2018
Jeju, Republic of Korea
1-2 Nov 2018
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.
9-11 Apr 2018
Cambridge, MA
8-9 Mar 2018
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.
30 Nov-1 Dec 2017
Okinawa, Japan
14 Nov 2017
Berlin, Germany
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.
18-19 Oct 2017
Rehovot, Israel
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.
31 Jul-4 Aug 2017
Cambridge, UK
1-2 Jun 2017
Stockholm, Sweden
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.
23-24 Feb 2017
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.
13-14 Oct 2016
London, UK
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.