Tag: Travel Fellowship
OBF Travel Fellowship awards for December 2019
December 21, 2019 :
Two awardees were chosen during the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship program, which closed on December 1, 2019. The […]
Global Community Biosummit 2019 @MIT
December 17, 2019 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) sponsors a Travel Fellowship program aimed at increasing diverse participation at events promoting Open Source […]
Call for OBF Travel Fellowship is Open until 1 December 2019
November 14, 2019 :
The call for OBF travel fellowship to select the next round of awardees is officially open! Please submit your application […]
Changes to the OBF Travel Fellowship application schedule
November 14, 2019 :
The OBF Travel Fellowship program, which was started in 2016, will be making some changes to the schedule. Until now, […]
Computational biology without borders
October 15, 2019 :
In this post, OBF Travel Fellowship awardee Aziz Khan discusses the importance of open source software and tools for scientific discovery in the current data-intensive century. He also shares his experiences at ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2019 in Basel.
OBF Travel Fellowship: August 2019 awards
September 30, 2019 :
A record number of people applied for the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship, which closed on August 15, 2019. […]
5 tips to promote ‘water cooler effects’ at informal discussion sessions
August 27, 2019 :
In this post, Malvika Sharan discusses her top tips to organise informal discussion sessions that promotes water cooler effect. Such sessions are useful for collecting ideas, gaining perspectives, and engaging with others over serendipitous interactions based on topics of mutual interests.
Dos and Don’ts for computational training
August 27, 2019 :
Thanks to OBF support with a travel grant, I was able to attend the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester […]
Cordon Bleu Bioinformatics
August 25, 2019 :
I attended the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2019) organized this year along with ISMB/ECCB in Basel, Switzerland from July […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship Application Deadline: August 15, 2019
August 7, 2019 :
The OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, aims to increase diverse participation at events related to open source bioinformatics. […]
OBF Travel Fellowship for AfricaOSH Summit 2019
June 1, 2019 :
Note: This is a guest blog post from Angela Muraya, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
Travel Award Recipients For April 2019
May 31, 2019 :
We are pleased to announce the April 2019 OBF Travel Fellowship recipients. The OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, […]
2nd US Semantic Technology Symposium 2019
April 6, 2019 :
This is a guest blog post from Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
A week of open source adventures in San Diego
March 13, 2019 :
This is a guest blog post from Lindsay Rutter, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
Travel award recipients for December 2018
February 13, 2019 :
We had a great round of OBF travel fellowship candidates in our last round of applications, and after review we […]
Meet our new Travel Fellowship Review Chair: Farah Zaib Khan
January 9, 2019 :
The next round of our OBF Travel Fellowships just ended on the 15th of December! This round we have introduced […]
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
City of roses they call it – Portland Oregon (USA)
August 18, 2018 :
How should I start describing the fruitful experience in this amazing city… First time ever in Portland, second time attending […]