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

Headshot portrait of Diya Singhal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Diya Singhal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Multidirectional Control of Collagen Fiber Alignment for 3D Printing of Tissue
Event: APS Joint March and April Meeting Global Physics Summit 2025

Headshot portrait of Vedika Shenoy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Vedika Shenoy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Joseph DeSimone and Eric Shaqfeh
Talk Title: Additive Manufacturing of High-Resolution Porous Tubes, Tube Networks, and Lattices Enabled By Fluid Mechanics
Event: 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of S. Shailja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

S. Shailja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer McNab
Talk Title: Self-efficacy of high school students after an AI-focused pre-college program: A two year impact study
Event: 2025 ASEE Annual Conference

Headshot portrait of Aditya Shah - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Aditya Shah - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jian Qin
Talk Title: Asymmetric ether solvents for high-rate lithium metal battery electrolytes
Event: American Physical Society 2025

Headshot portrait of Dominic Rutsche - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Dominic Rutsche - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Mark Skylar-Scott
Talk Title: Replicating The Cell Population Of The Developing Human Heart For Cardiac Grafts
Event: TERMIS AM

Headshot portrait of Rebecca Rodell - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rebecca Rodell - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Nicole Martinez
Talk Title: Investigating the sequence, structure, and cell-type specificity of PUS7-mediated pseudouridylation with Nanopore sequencing
Event: RNA Society 2025

Headshot portrait of Michelle Quan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Michelle Quan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Danielle Mai and Soichi Wakatsuki
Talk Title: pH-Controlled Hierarchical Assembly of Ion-Responsive Repeat Proteins
Event: 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Selina Pi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Selina Pi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Biomedical Data Science
Faculty Advisors: Jonathan Chen and Fernando Alarid-Escudero
Talk Title: Discrete-Event Simulation Model for Cancer Interventions and Population Health in R (DESCIPHR): An Open-Source Pipeline
Event: American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2025 Annual Symposium

Headshot portrait of Andrew Perley - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Andrew Perley - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Todd Coleman
Talk Title: A Dynamic Mutual Information Measure of Phase Amplitude Coupling
Event: 2025 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

Headshot portrait of Konstantinos (Kostas) Parkatzidis - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Konstantinos (Kostas) Parkatzidis - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Making and unmaking polymers via ATRP principles
Event: ACS Fall 2025 - Kostas received the PMSE Future Faculty Award at the symposium. This award recognizes 20 early-career researchers in polymer science and engineering.

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