Scientific Meetings

GTEx Project Community Meeting
April 20 - 21, 2017
PRBB Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The GTEx Community meeting is held annually and is open to the scientific community who are interested in learning more about the project and data, or who are already using the data in their research. This meeting will be held in Barcelona in April, following the completion of the main production phase of GTEx data.  It will aim to congregate a community of scientists from all over the world that are using, or that plan to benefit from using, the GTEx data. Click here for more information.

GTEx Project Community Meeting  and GTEx Steering Committee Meeting
July 11-13, 2016
Stanford University, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, CA
The Project Community Meeting on July 11th is open to the public so register here. The meeting will highlight current data sets and types available, various tools being developed for these data types, and results from applying them to the data. The relationship of the project to other NIH projects and data sets, such as ENCODE, GWAS and Cancer projects will be highlighted, and strong emphasis will be placed on showcasing a range of scientific presentations that use GTEx data.

GTEx Analysis Working Group Jamboree and Steering Committee Meeting
December 2, 2015
Hyatt Regency Bethesda, MD
This was the first GTEx meeting since sequence data from roughly half of the donors was available for analysis and provided an excellent opportunity for GTEx investigators to discuss optimal methods for analyzing the enormous amount of GTEx data that will be available by the end of 2016 when all the sequence is anticipated to be completed.​ 

GTEx Project Community Scientific Meeting
June 23-24, 2015
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
An opportunity for scientists to meet and to describe the GTEx project's current status and goals, showcase advances made in the project, and highlight the diverse analyses and uses of the GTEx data among the broader research community.​ 
Meeting agenda 

GTEx Symposium: All things considered - biospecimens, 'omics data, and ethical issues
May 20-21, 2015
Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
This 2 day symposium covered a broad range of topics that focus on the collection of normal biospecimens for GTEx. The symposium was open to the public. View the agenda. View the Symposium Website. View the archived videocast of Day 1 of Day 2.

GTEx Project Community Scientific Meeting
December 4, 2014
The Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
An opportunity for scientists to meet and to describe the GTEx project's current status and goals, showcase advances made in the project, and highlight the diverse analyses and uses of the GTEx data among the broader research community.​  
Meeting agenda

GTEx Project Community Scientific Meeting
June 17-18, 2014
The Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
An opportunity for scientists to meet and to describe the GTEx project's current status and goals, showcase advances made in the project, and highlight the diverse analyses and uses of the GTEx data among the broader research community.​ 
Meeting agenda 

GTEx Steering Committee Meeting 
December 10-11, 2013
Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, MD 

GTEx hosted its first open Community meeting
June 18th, 2013
The Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 
More information about the GTEx Community Meeting can be found here
Meeting agenda

GTEx Analysis Working Group Jamboree 
March 11-12, 2013
The Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
This meeting was for GTEx investigators to discuss analysis and publication of sequence data from complete pilot set of roughly 160 donors.

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) PI Meeting V
December 13-14, 2012
Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
The December 2012 meeting allows GTEx principal investigators and project officers to describe and evaluate the progress of operations and data analyses efforts.

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) PI Meeting IV
June 13-14, 2012
Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
The June 2012 meeting allows GTEx principal investigators and project officers to describe and evaluate the progress of operations and data analyses efforts.

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) PI Meeting III
December 1-2, 2011
Hilton Washington D.C./Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center
The December 2011 meeting allows GTEx principal investigators and project officers to describe and evaluate the progress of operations and data analyses efforts thus so in view of  the upcoming decision for scale-up.

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) PI Meeting II
June 7-8, 2011
Hilton Silver Spring/DC
The June 2011 meeting allows GTEx principal investigators and project officers to describe and evaluate the progress of operations and data analyses efforts, barriers and potential solutions, and to plan the next year of the GTEx project with input from the GTEx External Scientific Panel, investigators of genome browsers and other public resources, and GTEx statistical analyses grantees.

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) PI Meeting I 
December 15-16, 2010
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
The December 2010 meeting in Bethesda was the first opportunity for a working group of GTEx principal investigators and project officers to meet in-person, discuss and resolve start-up project logistics, such as finalizing regulatory documents, tissue collection protocols, kit configuration, as well as identify possible bottlenecks and a projected timeline among the group

Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Resource Workshop I
June 2-3, 2008
Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Executive Meeting Center
This workshop brought together experts in the scientific community that have extensive knowledge on or around the topic(s) at hand in an effort to define overall project logistics in regards to building a genotype-tissue expression resource.