Photo of 5 Travel Award recipients standing in the Clark Center courtyard.

The Bio-X Travel Awards Program gives graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, to travel and network with like-minded peers, and to learn new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Pranav Vyas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Branching morphogenesis of sea cucumber ossicles in multi-cellular syncytial confinement
Event: American Physical Society's March 2023 Meeting

Ariana Tse - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Spakowitz
Talk Title: Modeling pairing dynamics of homologous chromosomes during Prophase I in Saccharomyces cerivisae using polymer physics
Event: American Physical Society's March 2023 Meeting

Anastasia Lyulina - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Benjamin Good and Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Linkage equilibrium between rare alleles
Event: American Physical Society's March 2023 Meeting

Nicholas Rommelfanger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Guosong Hong
Talk Title: Seeing the sound: novel optical and ultrasonic methods for neuromodulation
Event: 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference

Ariel Hannum - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Ennis
Talk Title: Diffusion Direction Orientation Considerations for Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Event: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Sessions 2023

Grace Zhong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Thermotaxis in an apolar, non-neuronal animal
Event: SICB 2023

Pingyu Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Nicholas Melosh
Talk Title: Direct-print 3D electrodes for high-resolution and high-multiplexity neural interfaces
Event: 2022 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Rusiou Hsu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Hongjie Dai
Talk Title: Wireless charging-mediated angiogenesis and nerve repair by adaptable microporous hydrogels from conductive building blocks
Event: 2022 Joint Symposium of the Society For Biomaterials (SFB) and the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (JSB) - Rusiou was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award of Society for Biomaterials 2022.

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Philaphon Sayavong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Yi Cui
Talk Title: Dissolution of the solid electrolyte interphase and its effects on lithium metal anode cyclability
Event: 2022 MRS Fall Meeting

Sang Cheol Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Yi Cui
Talk Title: Probing solvation thermodynamics of electrolytes through potentiometric methods
Event: Electrochemical Society (ECS) 242nd Meeting

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