• Headshot portrait of Samuel Bandara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Samuel Bandara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Awarded in 2012
    Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
    Faculty Advisor: Tobias Meyer
    Talk Title: Parameter estimation from live cell siRNA data predicts gene function from dynamics
    Event: q-bio Conference 2012

    Awarded in 2011
    Talk Title: Optimum experimental design for nonlinear dynamic processes
    Event: CSE11: SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

    Awarded in 2008
    Talk Title: Optimal experimental design for estimating the parameters of a potential switch in axon specification
    Event: OPTEX: Workshop on Optimal Experimental Design in Engineering 2008
  • Photo of smiling female undergraduate student Sammy Pickell.

    Sammy Pickell - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

    2021 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant
    Home Department: Human Biology
    Mentor: Paul Bollyky (Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology)
  • Headshot portrait of Samir Menon - Colella Family Fellow

    Samir Menon - Colella Family Fellow

    Bio-X SIGF Graduate Student Fellow
    Awarded in 2011
    Home Department: Computer Science
    Faculty Advisors: Oussama Khatib (Computer Science) and Kwabena Boahen (Bioengineering)
  • Headshot portrait of Samir Menon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Samir Menon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Awarded in 2016

    Home Department: Computer Science
    Faculty Advisor: Oussama Khatib
    Talk Title: From Bot to Bot: Using a Chat Bot to Synthesize Robot Motion
    Event: 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for Human Robot Interaction

  • Headshot portrait of Samar Naamo - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

    Samar Naamo - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

    2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant
    Home Department: Biology
    Supported by: The Rose Hills Foundation and Bio-X
    Mentor: Marius Wernig, Pathology
  • Headshot portrait of Samantha Reyes - Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Fellow

    Samantha Reyes - Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Fellow

    Bio-X SIGF Graduate Student Fellow

    Awarded in 2024
    Home Department: Biomedical Physics
    Faculty Advisors: Michelle James (Radiology – Molecular Imaging Program at
    Stanford, Neurology) and Marion Buckwalter (Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery)

  • Headshot portrait of Samantha Reyes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Samantha Reyes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

    Awarded in 2025

    Home Department: Biomedical Physics
    Faculty Advisor: Michelle James
    Talk Title: Imaging the Invisible: Whole-Body PET/MRI of ME/CFS Patients Indicates Alterations in TSPO-Positive Cells and Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Muscles and Brain
    Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2025 - Samantha received both a Student Travel Award and a WIMIN Scholar Award in recognition of her research contributions.

    Awarded in 2024

    Talk Title: Shifting the Spotlight: New PET Imaging Biomarkers for Detecting Myeloid Cells in Multiple Sclerosis
    Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2024

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