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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.

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Headshot portrait of Philip Onffroy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Philip Onffroy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: Design and fabrication of conductive 3D printed carbon lattices via gel infusion and polymerization of acrylonitrile and subsequent pyrolysis
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Samantha Reyes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Samantha Reyes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biomedical Physics
Faculty Advisor: Michelle James
Talk Title: Shifting the spotlight: New PET imaging biomarkers for detecting myeloid cells in multiple sclerosis
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2024

Headshot portrait of Marina Luccioni - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Marina Luccioni - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Larry Crowder
Talk Title: Co-creating intergenerational knowledge about Hawaiian moi reproductive cycles in a changing climate
Event: 2024 American Fisheries Society

Headshot portrait of Christopher Long - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Christopher Long - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Tunable fibrillar collagen hydrogels strengthened by bioorthogonal covalent crosslinks
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Carla Huerta-Lopez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Carla Huerta-Lopez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated chemoresistance In patient-derived pancreatic cancer organoids
Event: TERMIS World Conference 2024

Headshot portrait of Jennifer Lissemore - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jennifer Lissemore - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Nolan Williams
Talk Title: Augmenting established therapies: OCD and the promise of combined TMS-CBT
Event: Association for Psychological Science 2024

Headshot portrait of Narelli de Paiva Narciso - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Narelli de Paiva Narciso - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Submucosal hydrogel for spring-mediated intestinal lengthening
Event: The 12th World Biomaterials Congress, WBC 2024

Headshot portrait of Meghan Shea - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Meghan Shea - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: E-IPER
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding differentiates between micro-habitats within the rocky intertidal
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024

Headshot portrait of Daniel Kunin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daniel Kunin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Surya Ganguli and Daniel Yamins
Talk Title: Stochastic collapse: How gradient noise attracts SGD dynamics towards simpler subnetworks
Event: Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2024

Headshot portrait of Mira Moufarrej - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Mira Moufarrej - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
Talk Title: Integrated 3D mapping and transcriptomic characterization of uterine arterial transformation in human placental development
Event: 2024 North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO)

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