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.
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)
Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Bioprinting of microribbon-shape microgels with tunable stiffness for stem cell differentiation and hierarchical patterning
Event: 8th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine (BTM) Conference, AIChE
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: I feel you: Impact of shared body sensations on social interactions in virtual reality
Event: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2024
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
Talk Title: Chemokine regulation of placental vascular development
Event: Vascular Biology 2024
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer organoids
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Gerlinde Wernig
Talk Title: Multi-omics reveals cJun and SLC4A4 as key drivers of renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Decoding the spatial transcriptomic landscape of diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology (ASN), ASN Kidney Week 2023
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Reticker-Flynn
Talk Title: Antagonism between tumors and lymphocytes drives coevolutionary processes throughout metastasis
Event: EMBL Symposium: Defining and Defeating Metastasis 2024
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisor: Tony Wyss-Coray
Talk Title: Investigating systems aging using the African turquoise killifish
Event: African Turquoise Killifish Conference 2024
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Dahl
Talk Title: Enhancing ultrasound molecular imaging: RPCA-based filtering to differentiate tumor-bound and free microbubbles
Event: 2024 International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) - Hoda received the IEEE UFFC Outstanding Paper Award.
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Spatial dissection of the tumor microenvironment identifies unique tissue motifs predicting response to checkpoint-inhibitor therapy in advanced Merkel cell carcinoma
Event: German Society of Dermatological Oncology Annual Meeting (ADO) 2024
