New Blog Post: Reflections from BOSC 2026: A Event Fellowship Recipient's Story by Neha by NehaAr · Pull Request #180 · OBF/OBF.github.io

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peterjc · 2026-08-06T10:13:55Z

+url: 2026-08-04-Neha-Bioinformatics-open-source-conference.md
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+Taking part in the **BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)**, was a valuable learning experience for me. I appreciate the **Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)** for supporting me with their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend this event. OBF represents a non-profit group that promotes open source software and open science. Every year, it runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger **ISMB(Intelligent System Molecular Biology)** Conference.


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Taking part in the **BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)**, was a valuable learning experience for me. I appreciate the **Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)** for supporting me with their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend this event. OBF represents a non-profit group that promotes open source software and open science. Every year, it runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger **ISMB(Intelligent System Molecular Biology)** Conference.

Taking part in the **BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)**, was a valuable learning experience for me. I appreciate the **Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)** for supporting me with their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend this event. OBF represents a non-profit group that promotes open source software and open science. Every year, it runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger **ISMB (Intelligent System Molecular Biology)** Conference.

We'd want to insert the standard header here, see eg https://www.open-bio.org/2026/06/17/2026-06-17-francesco-micocci-bits2026/ - which would include links to the conference etc. Otherwise I'd have said use some links here.

There's a typo 'canddate'. Unlike the USA, in the UK we just say PhD student.

…rence.md Co-authored-by: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com>

peterjc

I've not tried building this locally to double check things, but the text looks good. Thank you.

nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:10:43Z

+tag:
+ - community
+ - event-fellowship
+ - travel-fellowship


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nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:10:56Z

+ - event-fellowship
+ - travel-fellowship
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+title: "Reflections from BOSC 2026: A Travel Fellowship Recipient's Story"


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title: "Reflections from BOSC 2026: A Travel Fellowship Recipient's Story"

title: "Reflections from BOSC 2026: An Event Fellowship Recipient's Story"

nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:11:34Z

+url: 2026-08-04-Neha-Bioinformatics-open-source-conference.md
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+**_The_** [**_Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program_**](/travel-awards) **_aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.  Neha,_** _**a PHD student at University of Newcastle, Australia**_, **_was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend_** _**the**_ **_[Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2026](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2026/)_**.


If you put the photo at the end of this paragraph (with no newline separating it), it will appear on https://www.open-bio.org/blog/. Otherwise, the post will show up there with no image.

nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:12:05Z

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+**_The_** [**_Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program_**](/travel-awards) **_aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.  Neha,_** _**a PHD student at University of Newcastle, Australia**_, **_was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend_** _**the**_ **_[Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2026](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2026/)_**.
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+Taking part in [BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/) was a valuable learning experience. I am grateful to the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](https://www.open-bio.org/) for supporting me through their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend. It was a unique space where open-source software, biology, and the research community converged in a truly collaborative way. Every year, OBF runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger ISMB(Intelligent System Molecular Biology) Conference.


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Taking part in [BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/) was a valuable learning experience. I am grateful to the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](https://www.open-bio.org/) for supporting me through their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend. It was a unique space where open-source software, biology, and the research community converged in a truly collaborative way. Every year, OBF runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger ISMB(Intelligent System Molecular Biology) Conference.

Taking part in [BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/) was a valuable learning experience. I am grateful to the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](https://www.open-bio.org/) for supporting me through their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend. It was a unique space where open-source software, biology, and the research community converged in a truly collaborative way. Every year, OBF runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of the larger ISMB (Intelligent System Molecular Biology) Conference.

nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:12:23Z

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+I feel so grateful to have presented my poster, "Realistic Synthetic Data Generation for Biomedical Research and Computational Modeling in Endometrial Cancer," on such a large platform. I learned about [poster.science](https://posters.science/), a platform that could help me improve my poster.
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+![Poster Presentation](/img/2026/2026-08-06-Neha.png)


put at end of 1st paragraph

nlharris · 2026-08-07T22:13:01Z

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let's change to 2026-08-08 so the post will show up at the top of the blog page https://www.open-bio.org/blog/

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nlharris · 2026-08-08T17:57:54Z

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this may be my typo - should be 2026

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	title: "Reflections from BOSC 2026: A Travel Fellowship Recipient's Story"
	title: "Reflections from BOSC 2026: An Event Fellowship Recipient's Story"


		_The_ [_Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program_](/travel-awards) _aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Neha,_ _a PHD student at University of Newcastle, Australia_, _was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend_ _the_ _[Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2026](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2026/)_.

		Taking part in [BOSC 2026 (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)](https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/) was a valuable learning experience. I am grateful to the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](https://www.open-bio.org/) for supporting me through their fellowship, which made it possible for me to attend. It was a unique space where open-source software, biology, and the research community converged in a truly collaborative way. Every year, OBF runs the BOSC flagship meeting to promote community-driven open science as a part of larger ISMB(Intelligent System Molecular Biology) Conference.


		I feel so grateful to have presented my poster, "Realistic Synthetic Data Generation for Biomedical Research and Computational Modeling in Endometrial Cancer," on such a large platform. I learned about [poster.science](https://posters.science/), a platform that could help me improve my poster.

		![Poster Presentation](/img/2026/2026-08-06-Neha.png)

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