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: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Laura Dassama
Talk Title: Structural insights into bacterial sterol transporters
Event: ACS Fall 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisors: Robert Malenka and Karl Deisseroth
Talk Title: Rethinking psychedelics: Non-hallucinogenic analogs of psychedelics as treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders
Event: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Cell volume expansion and local cell contractility mediate basement membrane breaching in breast cancer
Event: Mechanobiology in Health and Disease 2023
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Principles of force coordination during collective cell migration
Event: European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Investigation on donor-acceptor semiconducting polymer/elastomer blends for stretchable electronics
Event: Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials
Home Department: Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: William Tarpeh
Talk Title: Fate of organic contaminants in electrochemical nitrogen recovery processes treating urine
Event: 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference
Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisors: Guillem Pratx and Billy W. Loo
Talk Title: Calibration and validation of a real-time oximeter for FLASH-RT experiments
Event: AAPM 64th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: William Tarpeh
Talk Title: Diurnal variation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and physicochemical parameters in wastewater influent from a large sewer shed at low COVID-19 incidence
Event: Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: High quality factor metasurfaces for real-time ocean observation
Event: 2022 MRS Spring Meeting/p>
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Jennifer Dionne and Craig Levin
Talk Title: Structural and optical interplay in ultrafast-decay alkaline-earth rare-earth fluoride nanoparticles for novel gamma ray scintillators
Event: MRS Spring 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: Single digit micron high-resolution 3D CLIP technology
Event: ACS Spring Meeting 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
