Developer Champions Program
Bioconductor is a big, diverse project that relies on contributions from volunteers. The Champions Program is an effort to recognize individuals outside the core team whose contributions ensure that Bioconductor remains a healthy, welcoming, and innovative scientific community.
2026 Bioconductor Developer Champions
Jenny Drnevich Jenny Drnevich is co-chair of the Bioconductor Training Committee and member of the North American Bioconductor conference committee. She has been active in the Bioconductor community for over 20 years, attending conferences, developing training materials and leading workshops.
Kozo Nishida Kozo Nishida is a member of the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board and has been actively involved in community outreach, training, and internationalization efforts. He has contributed to multilingual resources and community infrastructure, and has helped organize and promote Bioconductor activities in Japan and across Asia, including BioC Asia and local workshops (Osaka, Kyoto)
Dario Righelli Dario Righelli is a developer of SpatialExperiment, a Bioconductor package providing core data structures for spatially resolved transcriptomics data. He also co-leads the Bioconductor Classes and Methods Recommendations Working Group, contributing to discussions around object-oriented infrastructure and practices within the project. His involvement in Bioconductor also extends to community initiatives, including meetups and other activities that foster exchange and collaboration among Bioconductor users and developers.
Kevin Rue-Albrecht Kevin Rue-Albrecht is a member of the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board and the Code of Conduct Committee, contributing to the governance and development of a welcoming and inclusive Bioconductor community.
He has been involved in several Bioconductor working groups and committees over the years. He currently co-leads efforts around FAIR data sharing and multilingual resources, while also contributing to user and developer training, hackathon planning, and initiatives supporting the sustainability and growth of the developer community.
Claire Rioualen Claire Rioualen is the co-lead of the working group EDAM collaboration, whose goal is to use the standard EDAM ontology for the annotation of Bioconductor software packages. This initiative connects Bioconductor resources to the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem, including the bio.tools software registry and resources such as Bioconda or Galaxy. She has co-led two related projects at the ELIXIR BioHackathon in 2024 and 2025.
Charlotte Soneson Charlotte is co-chair of the Bioconductor Training Committee, one of the deputy chairs of the European Bioconductor Society, current member of the European and North American Bioconductor conference committees and the workflow working group, and a previous member of the Bioconductor Technical Advisory Board and Code of Conduct committee.
Jenny Drnevich, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kozo Nishida, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan
Dario Righelli, Napoli, Italy
Kevin Rue-Albrecht, University of Oxford, UK
Charlotte Soneson, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland