Profiles

Laura Bogar - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kabir Peay
Talk Title: Resource economics of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis vary with competitive context and nitrogen addition
Event: 2019 Ecological Society of America - Laura received an additional award for her abstract in the form of additional travel support from the Plant Population Ecology Section of the ESA.
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Mechanisms of generalist host range in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
Event: 3rd international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting
Laura Kubiatko - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: A Comparison of Three Intertidal Biosurveying Methods: Conventional Quadrat Surveying and eDNA Metabarcoding of Sediment and Water
Event: Western Society of Naturalists 2025
Laura Rijns - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Design rules for supramolecular hydrogel-cell interactions: From growing tissue towards bio-electronic applications
Event: ACS Fall 2024 Denver - Laura received the ACS Global Outstanding Student Award 2024.
Laura Sasportas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Single cell metabolomics in circulating tumor cells
Event: 2014 Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Quantitative, dynamic and long term in vivo imaging of intravascular circulating tumor cells in awake animals, with a novel miniature fluorescence microscope
Event: European Molecular Imaging Meeting 2011
Laurel Kroo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2021

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended, rotationally-symmetric swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses
Event: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021
Lauren Elizabeth Steinbaum - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Soil-transmitted helminth contamination of soil in rural Kenyan households
Event: 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
Lauren Lubeck - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Chris Lowe and Bo Wang
Talk Title: Modulations depending on life history: Wnt signaling in posterior patterning of hemichordate embryos
Event: Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates 2025
Lauren Shluzas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Larry Leifer
Talk Title: The iterative nature of medical device design
Event: G-SCOP 1st Workshop to Foster Publications in Engineering Design
Lauren Watkins - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc Levenston
Talk Title: Sodium PET-MRI detects regions of abnormal bone response to acute exercise
Event: 2019 International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging
Lawrence Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
Event: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

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