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: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: William Greenleaf
Talk Title: Quantitative models of transcription factor occupancy and gene expression from millions of single-molecule measurements
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Single-molecule dynamics of confined branched polymers
Event: American Physical Society March Meeting 2024
Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lacramioara Bintu
Talk Title: Dynamics and mechanisms of pulse-generating transcriptional effector domains
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio
Home Department: Biophysics and MSTP
Faculty Advisor: Lacramioara Bintu
Talk Title: High-throughput discovery of regulatory domains in RNA-binding proteins
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Optimizing light exposure in photochemical polymer recycling for sustainable 3D printing
Event: American Physical Society: Global Physics Summit 2025
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Engineering photo-responsive recyclability into polymer networks for sustainable 3D printing
Event: American Physical Society March Meeting 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: Consistent, scalable and globally optimal estimation of kinetic and regulatory parameters using convex optimization for biochemical reaction networks
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Engineering Repetitive Calcium-Responsive Proteins for Biomolecular Actuation
Event: Gordon Research Seminar Peptide Materials 2025
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Engineering biomolecular actuators from calcium-responsive repeat proteins
Event: 2024 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Protease-driven self-assembly of elastin-like polypeptides
Event: American Chemical Society Spring 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Empowering global ocean insight: The planktoscope initiative for community-driven plankton research
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Stanley Qi and Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Leveraging 3′-UTR RNA-switches for activation-dependent expression of transgenes in therapeutic T cells
Event: 2025 Association for Cancer Immunotherapy CIMT
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Autonomous T Cell activation-inducible mRNA switches for enhanced cell therapy
Event: Keystone Emerging Cellular Therapies 2024
