Welcome to 2025 JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR Meeting about

The 2025 Junior Investigator Meeting will be held virtually, August 18-19. This meeting brings together junior investigators (defined as graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty) from CCBIR, CSBC, MetNet, PS-ON and Cancer TEC together for talks, workshops, poster sessions, networking and more.

Submit your abstracts by 3:00 PM Pacific Time / 6:00 PM Eastern Time on Friday, August 1sts.

Register to attend by Friday, August 15th.

Agenda schedule

This year's Annual Meeting will feature a keynote speaker, collaborative workshops, special sessions, a poster session time to network, and tons of JI Talks!

Monday, August 18

08/18/2025 09:00

Meeting Overview / Introduction

08/18/2025 09:15

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Esther Mune

Dr. Esther Mune TBD

08/18/2025 10:00

JI Talks

08/18/2025 12:30

Break

08/18/2025 13:00

Day 1 Poster Session on Gather Town

Tuesday, August 19

08/19/2025 09:00

JI Talks

08/18/2025 10:00

NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) Tools Workshop

Dave Sturgill
NCI GDC Project Officer, NCI

Sharon Gaheen
FNL Technical Project Manager, NIH

Bill Wysocki
Director of User Services, University of Chicago

Lauren Mogil
Lead Bioinformatician, University of Chicago

Xin Zhou
Director of Data Visualization, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

08/18/2025 10:00

Automated Image Analysis of Large Highly-Multiplexed Tissue Images Using Nextflow and MCMICRO

Dr. Adam Tayler
Sage Bionetworks, Director of Cancer Biology

Dr. Clarence Yapp
Director of Microscopy and Computer Vision, Harvard Medical School

Jeremy Muhlic
Director of Software Engineering, Harvard Medical School

08/18/2025 10:00

How to Write an Effective Lay Abstract

MetNet Advocates
The MetNet Research Advocates

08/19/2025 10:00

Break

08/19/2025 11:30

JI Talks

08/19/2025 13:00

Networking / Professional Development Session

Supported by

The Multi-Consortia Coordinating (MC2) Center

Contact Details

Amber Nelson
Scientific Community Manager
MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks

Email: mc2center@sagebase.org