Human Reference Atlas & Whole Person Physiome Hackathon
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. The Whole Person Physiome (WPP) project aims to build a multi-organ, multi-scale map and model of all physiological processes in healthy human adults. The final map and models will incorporate physiological processes alongside clinical measures and hospital codes, and will be AI-ready and data science compatible. This hackathon will bring together PIs, programmers, and key personnel from the HRA, WPP and other relevant teams to discuss the harmonization and integration of methods, data, and code across efforts.

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Attendees
  • Andreas (Andi) Bueckle, CNS Research Lead, Indiana University (website)
  • Bruce W. Herr II, CNS Technical Director, Indiana University (website)
  • Jacob Scherba, PhD student, The University of Pennsylvania (website)
  • Eran Agmon, Assistant Professor, UConn Health (website)
  • Michael Eadon, Biologist/Physician, Indiana University School of Medicine (website)
  • Deanne Taylor, Director of Bioinformatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (website)
  • Arjun Srivatsa, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University (website)
  • Bernard de Bono, Indiana University School of Medicine (website)
  • Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Owner and President, Rose City Data Science (website)
  • Abhigya Agrawal, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Alex K. Chen, Healthspan Capital (website 1; website 2)
  • Divya Prasanth Paraman, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Supriya Bidanta, PhD student, Indiana University (website)
  • Yashvardhan Jain, CNS Research Software Engineer, Indiana University (website)
  • Yongxin (Kiki) Kong, CNS Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University (website)
  • Zeynep Amac, student, Indiana University (website)
  • Katy Börner, Professor & CNS Center Director, Indiana University (website)
Support
  • Traci Smith, CNS Center Assistant, Indiana University (website)
  • Lisel Record, CNS Associate Director, 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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