GOAL January 2024 Virtual Meeting 

The GOAL 2024 Virtual Meeting was hosted on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. The Program Committee* developed a fantastic line-up of topics and speakers. Selected recordings from the GOAL 2024 Virtual Meeting will be linked below!

Final Program now available (pdf)

  • Organizational Updates from the Co-Founders, Jeremy Segal (Univ of Chicago) and Dara Aisner (Univ of Colorado)
  • Overviews of a New Education Initiatives:
    • Genomics for Fellows and Interesting Case Conferences, Melissa Tjota (Univ of Chicago)
    • Informatics Boot Camp Program, Somak Roy (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
  • Utilization of the GOAL Probes
    • CNV Calling, Jeffrey Gagan
    • RNA fusion, Matthew Avenarius (Ohio State)
    • HRD, Niklas Krumm (Univ of Washington)
  • Updates on molecular classifications for:
    • Lymphomas, Noah Brown (Univ of Michigan)
    • Brain Tumors (via methylation-based assays), Kenneth Aldape (NIH/NCI)

Additionally, the program included a crowd-sourced, interactive landscape polling discussion session on lab automation.

Similar to last year’s pilot event, the program included a “Vendor Showcase” in which generous discounts for GOAL members were revealed in concurrent breakout Zoom lines. GOAL members learned how to receive the best additional discounts for their labs!

*GOAL 2024 Program Committee: Matthew Avenarius (Ohio State), Simon Chen (U Penn), Deqin Ma (U Iowa), and Melissa Tjota (U Chicago)

Which labs are the GOAL members? Check out the list posted at: www.goalabs.org/labs.