Call for the third 2024 round of the OBF Event Fellowship & overview of the second round.
The call for applications for round 3 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2024 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 December 2024. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
The OBF Event Fellowship program aims to increase diverse participation at events that promote open-source bioinformatics and/or open science. We invite applications from candidates seeking financial support to attend relevant scientific events between January and December 2025. These events include conferences, workshops, code fests, hackathons, training courses, collaborative sprints, informal meet-ups or other skill-building and networking events. For more details, please read our OBF Event Fellowship policy document.
Screenshot of our application form information section
Overview of the second 2024 round of OBF Event Fellowship
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program is now in its 8th year. Since 2023, we have three application rounds per year with the following deadlines: 1 April, 1 August, and 1 December.
In the second round of 2024 (August 2024), we received numerous applications, and four applicants were selected for funding to support their participation in various events. Congratulations to the following recipients:
- Jacob González Isa: The 1st Congress by The Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
- Tanakamol Mahawan: Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference 2024.
- Masturina Binti Md Mansor: Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference 2024.
- Keerthana P.: Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience Summer School 2024, Mikolajki, Poland.
We require each awardee to write a blog post about their conference experience, to share what they learned with the wider community. Here are some examples from our recent awardees:
Urszula Włodkowska summarised their experience attending the University of Waterloo’s Nengo Summer School with the help from OBF Event Fellowships. You can read about their journey here: Building Brains in Canada.
Zehra Köksal received the award to present their work at the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG) in Spain and shared their story here.
Felipe Castañeda attended an online EMBL-EBI Cancer Genomics and Transcriptomics 2024 course, with registration fee covered by OBF event fellowship. They reported their experience here.
Congratulations to all of our awardees! We are delighted to support their participation with OBF Event Fellowships, and we wish them all the best for their future work.
Please share this post and apply for the fellowship before 1 December 2024.