Thanks to everyone who participated in the NIH-HCA Joint Meeting over the past two days. HuBMAP was very well represented and highly engaged at the virtual event! Meeting organizers will be posting recordings when they become available, so check the website for updates.
Communications Survey
The HIVE-IEC has put together a survey pertaining to internal communications. Please fill out the survey when you have a spare moment! The survey closes on April 3.
The next call will be held Tuesday, April 7 @ 10AM ET. The topic will be include a recap of the NIH-HCA meeting and discussion of next steps for the group. Link to Zoom.
Publications Reminder
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.
DUA Tracking Update
The following groups have sent in DUA's:
TMC CalTech
TMC CalTech - U Washington
TMC - UCSD - Washington University School of Medicine
TMC - UCSD - University of Washington Medical Center
TMC - UCSD - University of Rochester Medical Center
TMC - Vanderbilt University
TMC - University of Floriday
HIVEMC - New York Genome Institute
HIVE MC - Indiana University
TMC CalTech - CalTech
RTI - Northwestern
"Dear Dena"
Dear Dena,
That was an awesome meeting! Congratulations to everyone who had a role in bringing it together! Nicely done! I’m so excited to begin working on my collaborations, I don’t know where to start! Where are the videos and documents so I may relive this meeting for the rest of my natural life?
Sincerely,
I’m so glad I went into science, just to have this moment!
Dear Excited Scientist,
Yes, a big shout out to everyone – speakers, facilitators, planners – everyone who came together to make this meeting happen. We are all awesome and deserve hugs all around, as soon as we are permitted contact again.
The meeting materials will be made available on the meeting website just as soon as humanly possible, and we will let you know when that happens. Please feel free to get your collaboration efforts started in the meantime.
The National Institutes of Health recently announced the availability of administrative supplements to active grants that focus on biomedical software development or have a significant software development component. These supplements will invest in research software tools with recognized value in a scientific community to enhance their impact by leveraging best practices in software development and advances in cloud computing.
Learn more about this Notice of Special Interest (NOT-OD-20-073) and apply by May 15. All inquiries may be directed to Jessica Mazerik, Ph.D., atjessica.mazerik@nih.gov.
COVID-19 HPC Consortium
The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.
In other news, you may remember the above image at the end of Richard’s closing remarks at the NIH-HCA meeting.
Our own Katy Börner suggested that we make a challenge of filling in the speech bubbles, and Dena heartily concurs!
Fill in the speech bubbles anyway you see fit – serious, funny, whatever – and then send them to Dena. The good ones we will put in subsequent HuBMAP Happenings.
Annual HuBMAP Meeting is Going Virtual
The consortium's Annual All-Hands meeting will be moving to a virtual format due to public health concerns and social gathering restrictions surrounding the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.
We are working through the details and will keep you informed as things progress. Thanks for your patience. If you have any questions or concerns please send mail to help@hubmapconsortium.org.
They said that a mask and gloves were enough to go to the supermarket. What a bunch of liars - everyone else has clothes on!
HIVE Infrastructure
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
