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Author: MoaazK

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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. Moaaz Khokhar,_** _**a PhD Candidate at**_ _**Koç University**_, **_was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend_** _**the**_ **_[European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2026)](https://eccb2026.org/)_**.
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 ![Moaaz Presenting DeepAlloWeb at ECCB 2026](/img/2026/2026-10-03-moaaz-presenting-deepalloweb-eccb-2026.jpeg)
 
 I attended the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology in Geneva, held from 31 August to 4 September 2026. I work on predicting allosteric sites in proteins: regions where binding can influence activity elsewhere in the molecule. This makes the relationship between sequence, structure and function a practical problem in my research.