Multi Omics NETwork Analysis Workshop

Location

The program will be hosted 2025-2028 at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, just 20 - 30 minutes outside of Denver. Accommodations will be arranged at The Benson Hotel & Faculty Club. This program is an in person event.

Eligibility 

This summer program is designed for post-baccalaureate researchers, including MS/PhD students, research staff, post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and junior and senior research investigators.

MONET participants need to be residing in the United States at the time of the workshop (those residing in Canada and Mexico may also be considered). Additionally, this is a NIH-funded program and thus mandated to focus on training US citizens/permanent residents, however there are available slots for non-citizens/residents and we encourage those qualified individuals to apply.

Applicants should possess sufficient programming experience to run provided code templates in the form of RMarkdown and/or Jupyter Notebooks.

Although each participant will have free access to the ANVIL cloud computing resources, each participant will need to bring a laptop computer that is capable of connecting to the internet.

Program Benefits

Travel and Accommodations: All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for participants.

Meals and Incidentals: Participants will receive full support for food and incidental expenses during the program.

Application Requirements

Please note - we are no longer accepting applications for Summer 2025 but we are planning on offering the working in Summer 2026 with applications opening in fall of 2025.

Document 1: Personal Statement

• Section One: Describe your background, interests, educational goals, and reasons for your interest in MONET (max 500 words).
• Section Two: Detail your technical skills, specifically demonstrating basic programming abilities in R and/or Python, training in statistics, and experience with omics data. Include relevant past coursework, coding examples, or descriptions of current projects (max 500 words).
  

Document 2: CV

• An electronic copy of your CV is required, with PDF format preferred.

Letter of Support

• A letter of support from a mentor or supervisor is required for students and post-doctoral fellows.
• The letter should not exceed 2 pages, must be double-spaced, and should be submitted with the correct email address for your recommender. We will contact them directly.
• We recommend informing your recommender that they will receive an email request for their letter of support.

Important Note
Please have all documents ready prior to completing the application.

Accessibility

The University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus strives to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully.  If you would like to request an accommodation or inquire about accessibility, please contact Becca Chrisman by email at rebecca.chrisman@cuanschutz.edu no later than May 23rd, 2025.

* Please note that this schedule is tentative and subject to change. All times are in Mountain Time (MT).

The workshop is organized to provide immersive and active experiences for participants. The schedule consists of a variety of different formats: traditional lectures, hands-on session, tours, group activities, and lunch sessions with break-out discussions.

• Lunch sessions are less structured, but will include discussions on cross-cutting topics with experts on responsible conduct of research; race, ethnicity and ancestry in omics research; omics data privacy; data harmonization; and computing resources and platforms.  

• Tours of cores (sequencing, microarray or mass spectrometry) on campus and the region will provide overviews of the technologies that generate multi-omics data. 

• Keynote speakers will be invited from across the country to provide a perspective on cutting-edge topics related to the workshop.  

We are excited to host two leaders in informatics as keynote speakers:

Dr. Gamze Gürsoy (G² Lab)
https://www.nygenome.org/science-technology/faculty-labs/gursoy-lab/

Dr. Lana Garmire (Group in Translational and Clinical Informatics)
https://garmiregroup.org/

Dr. Jessica Makofske

Jessica Makofske | LinkedIn

Hosted by the Center for Innovative Design and Analysis (CIDA) and the Department of Biostatistics & Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. 

Name	School/ Department
Organizers
Katerina Kechris, PhD	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Biostatistics & Informatics
Zhixin Lun, PhD	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Biostatistics & Informatics
Christopher Mancuso, PhD	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Biostatistics & Informatics
Becca Chrisman	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Center for Innovative Design and Analysis
Steering Committee
Russell Bowler, M.D., Ph.D.	Cleveland Clinic Genomic Sciences and System Biology
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, PhD	University of Colorado Denver Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Leslie Lange, PhD	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Biomedical Informatics

Questions? Contact us for more information:

MONET@cuanschutz.edu