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: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Ten-Earth: An online cluster of low-cost microscopes to monitor plankton population dynamics in complex experimental aquatic communities
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Frozen flow: Mobility of diatoms in ice
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Urology
Faculty Advisor: James Brooks
Talk Title: Exploiting Siglec-7/9 immune checkpoints in prostate cancer
Event: AAI Annual Meeting 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Siglec-7/9 are novel immune checkpoints for prostate cancer
Event: IMMUNOLOGY2023 - Ru received an AAI abstract trainee award.
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Alice Ting
Talk Title: Membrane editing and proximity labeling reveals a dynamic network regulating phosphatidic acid metabolism
Event: ASCB | EMBO Cell Bio 2023
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Tony Wyss-Coray and Carolyn Bertozzi
Talk Title: Cerebrovascular glycocalyx degeneration during aging and neurodegenerative disease promotes blood-brain barrier dysfunction and brain bleeds
Event: Cerebral Vascular Biology 2023 - Sophia won the David S. Miller Young Scientist Award, which is awarded to one young scientist at the conference who demonstrates promising research in the brain barriers research field.
Home Department: Radiology and Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: From polymers to power: Vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing of functional materials for energy, environment, and health applications
Event: ACS Spring 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: 3D printed flow-directing electrodes with nano-/micro-scale porosity for controlling transport and reactions
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Titles: Autonomous alignment and healing in multilayer soft electronics using immiscible dynamic polymers, A damage-mapping, self-healing electronic skin for surgical simulation training, and Charge transport through self-assembled monolayers—The roles of conformation and chelation
Event: Materials Research Society 2023
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Talk Title: Validation approaches for computational drug repurposing: a review
Event: AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium
Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Guillem Pratx
Talk Title: Dynamic In Vivo Tracking of Single Cells Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT)
Event: 2025 World Molecular Imaging Society
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Whole-body dynamic tracking of single cells with positron emission particle tracking
Event: 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Tracking multiple FDG labeled single cells in vivo with a Gaussian-mixture-based model
Event: American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2023 - Hieu was awarded the Jack Krohmer Early-Career Investigator Award, judged according to criteria of significance, innovation, and the potential for major scientific impact in an area of cutting-edge interest in medical physics.
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Talk Title: State of awareness of MLOps principles ascertained from AI/ML-enabled healthcare solution implementation papers: A scoping review
Event: AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium
