Events

GOAL 2025 Virtual Meeting

The GOAL 2025 Program Committee* is currently developing a timely and relevant Annual Meeting Program for Thursday, January 30, 2025, 12:00p-4:00pET (and post-conference pop-up discussion groups!):

  • 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 will include "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.

Finally, while the program is formally scheduled for 12:00p-4:00p (ET), please block your schedule afterwards for informal networking in small-group breakout room discussions for hot topics that organically develop throughout the event!

*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)

Registration is FREE, but only open to members in labs participating in GOAL. Exceptions for other guests are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the GOAL Admin office at: [email protected] for considering non-members and for any other question or concerns. We strongly encourage the academic GOAL labs to invite trainees (fellows and/or residents) if they are involved with your lab and/or mentorship.

CLICK HERE to register for the Zoom virtual event! Upon review of your registration by the GOAL Admin office (within a week), you will receive the Zoom access information and .ics file to add to your own calendar, if you haven't blocked out the date and time yet!

Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 12:00p-4:00p(ET)

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 or Fridays (12:00pm ET) in odd-numbered months. 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).

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