Events

GOAL 2025 Virtual Meeting

The GOAL 2025 Program Committee* developed an engaging Annual Meeting Program on January 30, 2025.

  • Organizational Updates from the Co-Founders, Jeremy Segal (Univ of Chicago) and Dara Aisner (Univ of Colorado)
  • Updates from selected GOAL Working Groups:
    • Education Programs
    • Informatics Group
    • Hemepath Group
    • Share Variant Curation Platform Group
    • Others! 
  • Lessons Learned from:
    • Paired-Tumor:Germline Sequencing
    • Clonal Hematopoiesis
    • Heme-MRD Panel
  • Consensus Discussion on:
    • The State of Genomics Lab Testing Survey
    • Reporting Practices

The program included "Vendor Spotlights" for Industry Member Supporters to briefly introduce their company and reveal discounted offerings for GOAL members. Later in 2025, each Industry Member will present a GOAL Virtual Industry Educational Webinar (VIEW) for a more in-depth exploration of their products, services, and/or solutions.

*GOAL 2025 Program Committee: Vincent Laufler (U Michigan), Melissa Tjota (U Chicago), Guang Yang (U Penn), Amy Young (U Colorado), and Sidra Zaheer (Columbia U)

Past Virtual GOAL Annual Meetings

GOAL Monthly Café for Technical Help

An open forum to come and seek and offer technical guidance, ask questions about GOAL, suggest projects, share experiences on challenges and successes, etc.! GOAL Cafes are generally scheduled for the first Tuesdays (3:00pm ET) in even-numbered months (February, April, June, August, October, December) or Fridays (12:00pm ET) in odd-numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, November). The calendar invite via the GOAL Admin office is for GOAL sites only. Questions? Email: [email protected].

GOAL Business Meetings 

Organized by the GOAL Board for updates on governance and membership, especially for Designated Representatives who constitute the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC).

  • Monday, April 28, 2025
  • Monday, January 29, 2024
  • Monday, January 30, 2023
  • Tuesday, January 25, 2022