NIH-CZI Junior Investigators Atlas Builders Meeting (Overview)

Overview

Due to the ongoing cancellation of NIH-sponsored meetings, this meeting has been postponed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and greatly appreciate your understanding.

You are invited to attend the NIH-CZI Junior Investigators Atlas Building Meeting. This meeting will be held April 10-11, 2025 at 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD and virtually. The deadline to register is March 14, 2025. The abstract deadline for consideration for talks or posters is February 20, 2025.

This 2-day meeting will bring together biologists, physician scientists, computational biologists, and other computational experts in the early stages of their careers from the Participant Engagement and Cancer Genome Sequencing (PE-CGS) Network(link is external), Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN)(link is external), The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)(link is external), Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)(link is external), GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP)(link is external), Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet)(link is external), and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Seed Network (link is external)to work towards building atlases of tissue organization at an unprecedented resolution for answering fundamental questions in human health and disease.

For the purposes of this meeting, a 'junior investigator' is defined as a graduate student, postdoc, staff scientist, or early-career faculty.

The meeting program is under-development. The meeting will include sessions on specific scientific topics (tools workshops, patient advocacy panel), career development (different careers, grant writing and branding), and networking sessions as well as several presentations by plenary speakers.

For further information or questions about the meeting program, contact Monica Brown monica.e.brown@vanderbilt.edu(link sends email) and Samia Lasaad samia.lasaad@mssm.edu(link sends email).

Accessibility

If you require special arrangements or accommodations to fully participate in this meeting, please contact Leah Mechanic mechanil@mail.nih.gov(link sends email) at least 10 days before the meetings to discuss your needs.

 

Planning Committee:
Joanna Bons
Monica Brown
Quinn Easter
Allison Esselman
Brittney Gorman
Alexandra Krylova
Samia Lasaad
Joel Sanchez Mendez
Diana Nakib
Marcos Garcia Teneche
Chenchen Zhu

Program Team:
Eric Brunskill
Richard Conroy
Sharmistha Ghosh-Janjigian
Sean Hanlon
Shannon Hughes
Riante Jones
Pragati Katiyar
Leah Mechanic
Dena Procaccini
Garabet Yeretssian