We're checking in with some HuBMAP team members at their home offices to tell us a bit about their work within HubMAP and to share how they're handling social distancing protocol.
Andreas ("Andi") has a background in digital media production with a focus on video. However, for his PhD in Information Science, he decided to follow a more technical route, so his research is on data visualization (see his group's PNAS paper onData Visualization Literacy)
for virtual reality. His interests lie in building VR tools that utilize human visual acuity, spatial pattern recognition, and fine motor skills. Specifically, Andi worked as the lead developer for the CCF Registration User Interface (RUI) v0.6.0, for which he is currently conducting a user study for his dissertation.
Recently, Andi used his skills from his first career to create a set of videos for the Visible Human MOOC, a free course about HuBMAP, to be published with the first portal release.
While Covid-19 has made it difficult for him to spend his summer months pursuing his biggest hobby, traveling, he now has even more time for his second-biggest hobby, sailing and racing his 14-foot boat on the beautiful lakes of Bloomington, Indiana.
Save the Date
HIVE Demo Day/Hackathon
HIVE Demo Day: September 21-22, 2020
Hackathon focused on identification of cell types: September 23, 2020
Hosted by Indiana University
TMC/TTD Progress Reports Due
A reminder that Year2 progress reports are due for TMC and TTD components on Tuesday, June 30th.
28th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
HuBMAP members will be hosting a special session, "HuBMAP: Integrating genomics, imaging and mass-spectrometry to construct single-cell human tissue maps", at the International Society for Computational Biologyon Tuesday, July 14 between 2 and 6 PM EDT.
Featured speakers include Michael Snyder, Cole Trapnell, Nick Nystrom, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Nils Gehlenborg, Katy Borner, and Ajay Pillai.
A link to the schedule and topics can be found at this link.
Registration can be found here.
Upcoming Meetings
Wednesday, June 24 @ 10 AM - DRT Portal
Thursday, June 25 @ 4 PM - Communications & Engagement
We are tracking the various stages of consortium publications, from idea to published at this link. Don't forget to check in and update the tracker with any status updates or new publications that you and your team have in the works.
Reminders, Links to Resources, etc.
Upcoming NIH Deadlines
Yearly Progress Reports (RPPRs) are due 6-8 weeks in advance of the end of the funding period. For your reference, here are the end dates for the different Components:
Developers in need of HIVE infrastructure may request access through the PSC web form, foundhere.
Instructions for using HIVE infrastructure can now be found in the "Quick Links" section of the Collaboration Portal. A direct link to this documentation can be found here. Please report any issues or direct any questions to help@hubmapconsortium.org.
Content Suggestions
The IEC is seeking to collect information of general interest from individual members and groups and to share with the rest of the Consortium. Please submit content suggestions by emailing admin@hubmapconsortium.org.
Past Newsletters are available on the Collaboration Portal.
For comments, suggestions about how to improve the HuBMAP happenings, or questions about the consortium, please contact: help@hubmapconsortium.org
