GTEx Investigators Steering Committee Meeting
December 10-11, 2013
Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1699
Tel: 301-468-1100 Fax: 301-468-0308
www.washingtondcrockville.hilton.com
The Executive Meeting Center is at walking distance from the Twinbrook Metro Station. Minutes from I-495 and I270, it is easily accessible from any airport in the area.
AGENDA
Day 1: Tuesday December 10, 2013
Please make boxed lunch selections at the registration desk by 9:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m.
Analysis Working Group Jamboree (Plaza I/II)
(Open to all interested GTEx SC attendees, but narrowly focused on analysis plans– no
time devoted to background explanation of concepts)
 Enhancing GTEx Core Dataset - Discussion with invited attendees
12:00 p.m.
Lunch on own (or boxed lunches)
12:30 p.m.
Registration for afternoon session attendees
1:00 p.m.
General Project Summaries, Updates and Projections (Plaza I/II)
1.00 p.m.
1.30 p.m.
1.40 p.m.
1.50 p.m.
2.00 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
Recruitment and donor characteristics
Site Update – NDRI
Site Update – RPCI
CBR Update
Molecular data production & analysis
ELSI sub-study
NCI & Leidos
NDRI
RPCI
VARI
LDACC
VCU
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Data Standards
Eurie Hong (ENCODE DCC)
Common ontologies for interoperability across NIH projects
GTEx Community input
4:30 p.m.
Poster Session (Roosevelt Room)
6:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Day 2: Wednesday December 11, 2013
Please make boxed lunch selections at the registration desk by 9:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m.
Brief Introductions to the new AWG group members (Plaza I/II)
Short description by each group of their goals
- Conrad
- Sabati/Eskin
- Brown/Engelhardt
9:00 a.m.
Publication plans
Publication policy
Discussion of AWG’s goals for the project scale-up
NIH & Open Discussion
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m.
Benchmarking for the GTEx project
Aligner comparison study
Isoform reconstruction methods
Deluca
Open Discussion
BMS study
Initial analyses of the data
LDACC/NCI
11:15 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
Working Lunch (boxed lunches or grab own)
12:15 p.m.
Pilot LCM study
Discussion of need for, and goals of, LCM study for more focal cellular sampling
1:15 p.m.
Wrap-up
1:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Upcoming GTEx Meetings:
Investigator Steering Committee Meeting
June 16, 2014 in Boston, MA
GTEx Community Meeting
June 17-18, 2014 in Boston, MA
Investigator Steering Committee Meeting with ESP Meeting
Dates TBD. Aiming for first week of December 2014 in Washington, DC/Rockville, MD