Profiles

Frank Moss - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boxer Talk Title: Ladderane phospholipids form dense, low-polarity membranes with low proton/hydroxide permeability
Event: 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Nanometer-Scale Lipid Clusters in Model Membranes Revealed by Atomic Recombination in NanoSIMS
Event: 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Atomic recombination in nanosims as a method to measure nanometer-scale intermolecular distances in lipid bilayers
Event: 2016 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
Furqan Fazal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Steven Block
Talk Title: Real time observation of initiation from the T7A1 promoter
Event: 2013 Science Research Conference: Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Binding and translocation of termination factor rho studied at the single-molecule level
Event: Cellular Nano-Sciences Conference 2011 - Furqan's talk has since been published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Ga Young (Kelly) Suh - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2009

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Charles Taylor
Talk Title: Hemodynamics in abdominal aortic aneurysm at rest and graded levels of exercise states using MR-imaging technique
Event: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference - Kelly was 3rd place in student competition at podium presentation.
Gabriel Billings - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Physics
Faculty Advisor: KC Huang
Talk Title: De novo morphogenesis in L-forms via geometric control of cell growth
Event: Bacterial Cell Surfaces Gordon Conference 2014

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: De novo synthesis of the cell wall in E. coli: Reversion of L-forms
Event: American Society of Microbiology General Meeting 2012 - Gabriel's presentation was selected as a Young Investigator talk.
Gabriel Smith - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kabir Peay
Talk Title: Colonization-competition tradeoffs structure ectomycorrhizal diversity
Event: 9th International Conference on Mycorrhiza
Gadryn Higgs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Microfabricated Calibration Tool for Direct Shear Stiffness Measurements with Applications in Cell Mechanics
Event: IEEE Sensors 2010
Gaurav Krishnamurthy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2009

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Craig Miller and Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Transient Tensing of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet
Event: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Society of the Heart Valve Disease
George Korir - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Punch card programmable microfluidics
Event: 65th Annual Meeting: American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics
Georgios Katsikis - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Synchronous Droplet Microfluidics: One "Clock'' to rule them all
Event: 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Ferrodroplets: A global clock for droplet microfluidics
Event: American Physical Society 65th Annual Division Fluid Dynamics Meeting
Giancarlo Garcia - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: Electrokinetic instability of isotachophoresis shocks
Event: American Physical Socienty, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Rapid and accurate profiling of trace amounts of microRNA with no amplification
Event: 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - The research that Giancarlo presented was later published in Analytical Chemistry

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Sample dispersion in isotachophoresis
Event: Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar/Gordon Research Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics 2011

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