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title: Nextflow on the Road — ISMB 2024 in Montreal
episode: 42
description: Conference highlights and team impressions from ISMB 2024.
date: 2024-07-23
type: podcast
subtype: Community
youtubeid: G1_gsn3i2wk
image: /img/podcast_ep42.png
tags: Nextflow, Seqera, conference
author: Developer advocates
icon: logo_podcast_channels.jpg
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A small but intrepid team of Seqerans recently attended the ISMB 2024 conference in Montreal, a great mix of computational biology and bioinformatics with a largely academic / research-focused audience. Join Geraldine Van der Auwera, Rob Syme and Florian Wuennemann for a lively discussion about the scientific themes of the conference, their experience running a booth, meeting with the ISMB and BOSC community, and resources for job seekers.

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# Podcast overview

## Scientific themes / Favorite talks and takeaways

- AI is everywhere! And actually starting to produce useful results, bubble notwithstanding.
- Pangenomes are cool.
- Multimodal data (graphs, spatial, etc) is cool too!
- Francesco Lescai’s talk in the BioInfo-Core track was awesome (slight bias from the Nextflowers here)

## Running the Nextflow/Seqera booth

- We got tons of visitors to the booth! Interesting bimodal distribution of current Nextflow users + newcomers interested in moving to Nextflow.
- Interesting questions about what is Seqera, what does the platform do, how does the business work given its OSS foundation.
- We ran a raffle that required visitors to run a Nextflow pipeline for a chance to win a pair of AirPods. (A PhD student won the AirPods, which made us very happy.)

## Sponsoring the BOSC track/COSI

- We were the Platinum sponsor for BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) which used to be a separate event and is now co-organized as a COSI track of ISMB. The sponsorship mostly funds travel for people who otherwise couldn’t attend the conference.
- We made special limited edition Nextflow-BOSC socks!
- BOSC is awesome and you should join them next year at ISMB 2025 in Liverpool.

## Jobs!

- We met a lot of early-career job seekers at the ISMB career fair and shared some advice & recommendations: get engaged in nf-core to develop and demonstrate your skills, and check out the jobs channels in the nf-core and nextflow slack workspaces.
- Bioinformatics job postings increasingly cite Nextflow experience as a desired or even required skill. Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn for a weekly roundup of Nextflow-related job postings
- Our Community team will be looking for a new EU-based developer advocate in the near future; reach out to [Geraldine on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldine-van-der-auwera-5a5811/) if you're interested.

# Upcoming events mentioned in the podcast

- [Sep 16-20 : GA4GH Plenary Meeting](https://broadinstitute.swoogo.com/ga4gh-12th-plenary/) (Melbourne, Australia)
- [Oct 28 — Nov 1: Nextflow Summit](https://summit.nextflow.io/2024/barcelona/) (Barcelona, Spain + online) (+ nf-core hackathon and newcomer training)
- [Nov 5-9: ASHG](https://www.ashg.org/meetings/2024meeting/) (Denver, CO, USA)

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