The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Li Chuin Chong, a PhD student at the TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research GmbH & Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2024). I sincerely offer my gratitude to Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) for the partial support, which allowed me to participate in the 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2024) in Turku, Finland. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Jacob González Isa, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge (started October 2024) and formerly an MSc student at the Technical University of Madrid, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the first Congress of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (SEBiBC). [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Keerthana Padmanabhan, a PhD researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, INDIA, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience Summer School 2024 (TBNSS 2024). In September 2024, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience Summer School 2024 (TBNSS 2024) conducted in Mikolajki, Poland, from September 9th to 20th 2024 by the Nencki Open Lab, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Poland. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Felipe de Jesús Castañeda Córdova, an MD/MS student from LIIGH-UNAM (Laboratorio Internacional para la Investigacion sobre el Genoma Humano) Mexico was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the EMBL-EBI Cancer Genomics and Transcriptomics 2024. My name is Felipe de Jesús Castañeda Córdova. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Zehra Köksal, a Research assistant at the University Of Copenhagen and Karolinska Institute was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the 30th Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. In September 2024, the Open Bioinformatics Foundation enabled me to attend the biennial conference for Forensic Geneticists from the biggest forensic genetics society worldwide – the International Society of Forensic Genetics (ISFG) - that took place in Santiago de Compostela in beautiful Spain. [Read More]

By Beatrice Mihalache Examining open source projects has been most useful to me while I am sharpening my coding skills, so I was excited to learn about the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference – BOSC. I am a rising senior at UCLA, studying biophysics and data science. I strongly believe in open source, so I submitted the work I’d done with my PI and my grad student collaborator for a poster presentation at BOSC. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Urszula Włodkowska, a PhD Researcher at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the University of Waterloo’s Nengo Summer School. In June of 2024, I had a great opportunity to attend the University of Waterloo’s Nengo Summer School (also known as Brain Camp). [Read More]