SCORCH Hybrid Meeting 2025

• Dates: June 23rd & 24th, 2025
• Location: SMC campus center, University of Maryland Baltimore, 621 W Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
• Registration

Hello SCORCH consortium members,

We are excited to have you join us for the June SCORCH meeting! Below is some important information about registering and talk/poster sign-ups.

Summary of important links & details (more details below):

• Event time and schedule: June 23rd and 24^th (tentative schedule below)
• Registration deadline for in person attendance is May 23^rd (Eventbrite registration)
• Location: SMC campus center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (general information about transportation options) or remote
• Deadlines for lightning talk and poster signups is May 23^rd for signup links, see previous emails or contact (jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu)
• Each funded project should have at minimum of one poster or talk

Event time and schedule:

The meeting will take place over two days, starting at 9 A.M. Eastern each day (tentative schedule below). In addition to in-person attendance, we will also have remote attendance options (use the same registration form, just answer remote for your attendance type). Our meeting format is a mix of panel discussions, a poster session, and lightning talks.

Poster session and lightning talks:

We are asking each funded project to prepare an update poster or talk summarizing the status of their project. We also encourage individuals within labs to sign up for their own posters or lighting talks (format 8 mins + 2 mins for questions). For links to signup pages, see previous emails or contact jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu, deadline May 7th).

We have a limited number of talk and poster slots so please sign-up early! Preference will be given to graduate student and early career researchers.

Location:

The June meeting will be held at the SMC campus center on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. For individuals flying for the meeting, the closest airport is BWI. From the airport, it is around a 20 minute drive/Uber (or 40 min ride on the light rail) from the airport to Baltimore. UMB’s campus is within walking distance to the Baltimore Inner Harbor and there are several public transportation options nearby/on campus (MTA). For individuals driving, you can find information about parking here.

Draft Event Agenda

Time (Eastern)	June 23rd	June 24th
9:00 AM to 9:30 AM	Breakfast (provided)	Breakfast (provided)
9:30 AM to 10:00 AM	General consortium overview	Panel discussion 3: Publication package
10:00 to 10:30 AM	Keynote presentation
10:30 to 11:00 AM	Morning break
11:00 to 11:30 AM	Poster session	Morning break
11:30 to 12:00 PM		Breakout time for task forces
12:00 to 12:30 PM	Lunch (provided, 1 hr)
12:30 to 1:00 PM		Lunch (provided, 1 hr)
1:00 PM to 1:30 PM	Poster session
1:30 to 2:00 PM	Lightning talks	Discussion
2:00 to 2:30 PM		Lightning talks
2:30 to 3:00 PM	Afternoon break
3:00 to 3:30 PM	Panel discussion 1	Keynote presentation
3:30 to 4:00 PM		Meeting wrap up
4:00 to 4:30 PM	Panel discussion 2
4:30 to 5:00 PM

Questions:
Please contact Joe Receveur: jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu

SCORCH Consortium Winter Meeting 2025

We would like to invite you to take part in the SCORCH consortium's virtual winter meeting, open to the public.

The Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV consortium (SCORCH) is a NIDA funded program with the goal of generating single cell data and other resources to enable researchers to better understand the effects of substance use disorder and HIV infection in the brain.

The meeting will be a series of talks on single cell technologies for studies of the brain in substance use disorders and HIV. An additional goal of the meeting is to highlight SCORCH tool development and data generation efforts to the broader scientific community outside the consortium.

The event has concluded. Please check back for future updates.

Event Agenda

Eastern	Central	Pacific	Topic	Presenter
12:00 PM	11:00 AM	9:00 AM	Meeting introduction & consortium overview Joint data integrations (PFC/NAc)	Howard Fox Shilpa Buch NeMO & Broad team Brian Herb
12:15 PM	11:15 AM	9:15 AM
12:30 PM	11:30 AM	9:30 AM
12:45 PM	11:45 AM	9:45 AM
1:00 PM	12:00 PM	10:00 AM
1:15 PM	12:15 PM	10:15 AM	Break (15 mins)
1:30 PM	12:30 PM	10:30 AM	Single-nucleus multiomics reveals dysfunction in multiple glial cell types in brain tissue of PWH (30 mins, abstract and full author list)	Kriti Agarwal
1:45 PM	12:45 PM	10:45 AM
2:00 PM	1:00 PM	11:00 AM	Impact of SIV infection, cART, and morphine use on brain myeloid cells: insights from single-nucleus multiomics in rhesus macaques (15 mins, abstract and full author list)	Xiaoke Xu
2:15 PM	1:15 PM	11:15 AM	Statistical power in the context of genotype-expression association analyses (15 mins, abstract and full author list)	Declan Clarke
2:30 PM	1:30 PM	11:30 AM	Break (15 mins)
2:45 PM	1:45 PM	11:45 AM	Major findings talk: Brain cell epigenomes across the human lifespan (human, 30 mins)	Eran Mukamel
3:00 PM	2:00 PM	12:00 PM
3:15 PM	2:15 PM	12:15 PM	Major findings talk: PFC and substance use interactions (human, 30 mins)	Paul Kenny
3:30 PM	2:30 PM	12:30 PM
3:45 PM	2:45 PM	12:45 PM	Profiling of single chromatin fibers in the human brain using Fiber-seq (20 mins)	Aman Agarwal
4:00 PM	3:00 PM	1:00 PM	Transitioning from Single Cell to Spatial in the Mouse Brain (20 mins)	Lauren Wills
4:30 PM	3:30 PM	1:30 PM	M Brain isoform expression at single-cell resolution in (developmental) time and (anatomical) space (15 mins)	Hagen Tilgner

Questions:
Please contact Joe Receveur: jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu

SCORCH in-person meeting 2024

• Dates: June 3rd & 4th, 2024
• Location: SMC campus center, University of Maryland Baltimore, 621 W Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
• Registration: This event has concluded, registration is closed.

• Hello SCORCH consortium members,

  We are excited to have you join us for the June SCORCH meeting! Below is some important information about registering and talk/poster sign-ups.

  Summary of important links & details (more details below):

  • Event time and schedule: June 3rd and 4th (tentative schedule)
  • Registration deadline is May 1st (Eventbrite registration)
  • Location: SMC campus center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (general information about transportation options, nearby hotel options) or remote
  • Deadlines for lightning talk and poster signups is May 7th for signup links, see previous emails or contact (jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu)
  • Each funded project should have at minimum one summary poster

  Event time and schedule:

  The meeting will take place over two days, starting at 9 A.M. Eastern each day (tentative schedule). In addition to in-person attendance, we will also have remote attendance options (use the same registration form, just answer remote for your attendance type). Our meeting format is a mix of panel discussions, a poster session, and lightning talks. Tentative panel discussions include: Cross consortium data integration & analysis, Clinical phenotype considerations during analysis, and Validation of findings in model systems & spatial approaches.

  Poster session and lightning talks:

  Instead of groups giving short update talks, we are asking each funded project to prepare an update poster summarizing the status of their project. We also encourage individuals within labs to sign up for their own posters or lighting talks (format 8 mins + 2 mins for questions). For links to signup pages, see previous emails or contact jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu, deadline May 7th).

  We have a limited number of talk and poster slots so please sign-up early! Preference will be given to graduate student and early career researchers. For both lightning talks and individual posters, we will have an opt-in competition with unique SCORCH-specific prizes for the winners of each category (also a great item for early career CVs).

  Location:

  The June meeting will be held at the SMC campus center on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. For individuals flying for the meeting, the closest airport is BWI. From the airport, it is around a 20 minute drive/Uber (or 40 min ride on the light rail) from the airport to Baltimore. UMB’s campus is within walking distance to the Baltimore Inner Harbor and there are several public transportation options nearby/on campus (MTA). For individuals driving, you can find information about parking here.