Human Reference Atlas Hackathon with focus on Whole Person Physiome
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
August 3-5, 2026
Summary
The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) is a multiscale, multimodal, three-dimensional atlas of the anatomical structures and cells in the healthy human body. The HRA provides standard terminologies and data structures for describing specimens, biological structures, and spatial positions linked to existing ontologies. This hackathon will bring together PIs, programmers, and key personnel from teams in the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP), the Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet), the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP), and the Whole Person Project (WPP) to discuss the integration of the HRA with other atlassing efforts.
Attendees
  • Martin Hemberg, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (website)
  • Jacob Scherba, MS, PhD student, The University of Pennsylvania (website)
  • Eran Agmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, UConn Health (website)
  • Deanne Taylor, PhD, Director of Bioinformatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (website)
  • Arjun Srivatsa, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University (website)
  • Abhigya Agrawal, MSc, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Divya Prasanth Paraman, MSc, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Supriya Bidanta, MSc, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Yashvardhan Jain, MS, CNS Research Software Engineer, Indiana University (website)
  • Yongxin (Kiki) Kong, PhD, CNS Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University (website)
  • Bruce W. Herr II, CNS Technical Director, Indiana University (website)
  • Katy Börner, PhD, Professor & CNS Center Director, Indiana University (website)
  • Andreas (Andi) Bueckle, PhD, CNS Research Lead, Indiana University (website)
Location
Intelligent Systems Engineering Department
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
700 N. Woodlawn Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
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Date
August 3-5, 2026
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Acknowledgements
We thank Traci Smith and Elizabeth Record at Indiana University for assistance with organizing the event.