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: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Jure Leskovec
Talk Title: Sequential optimal experimental design of perturbation screens guided by multimodal priors
Event: Machine Learning in Computational Biology 2023
Home Department: Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Electron Kebebew
Talk Title: Targeting ferroptosis in BRAFV600E-mutant anaplastic thyroid cancer - A novel treatment strategy
Event: 2023 American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting - Jiangnan’s submitted research project was selected as a highlighted abstract for the conference. In addition, Jiangnan was awarded the American Thyroid Association Trainee Grant.
Home Department: Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Faculty Advisor: Georgios Skiniotis
Talk Title: Activation mechanism, G protein coupling and structure-based drug discovery of the calcium-sensing receptor
Event: The 4th International Symposium on the Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaSR) - Feng was among the 10 speakers that received the ASBMR/NIH Travel Award at the event.
Home Department: Neurosurgery
Faculty Advisor: Julia Kaltschmidt
Talk Title: Glutamatergic circuitry regulates intestinal motility
Event: NeuroGASTRO 2023(CaSR) - Ryan was awarded the opportunity to present at this event by being voted one of the three best talks at the Little Brain Big Brain (LBBB) Symposium in September 2022.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Matrix shear strength regulates T Cell migration through confining microenvironments
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Matrix flow point regulates T-cell migration through confining microenvironments
Event: BMES Annual Meetings 2023
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Feliks Kogan
Talk Titles: Comparison of new MR approaches for accelerated knee imaging and
Evaluation of metabolic response in bone marrow lesions after exercise in relation to changes in adjacent cartilage T2 values
Event: International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging 2023 - Ananya was one of four presenters to receive an award for “Best Scientific Abstract.”
Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: James Spudich
Talk Title: Role of the super-relaxed state of ß-cardiac myosin in the pathomechanism of dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: AHA Scientific Sessions 2023
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Integrating electrokinetics with AI-assisted Raman spectroscopy for bacterial detection in wastewater
Event: PRiME (246th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS))
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Combining surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy and electrokinetics for bacterial monitoring in wastewater
Event: 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Curved crease origami at cellular scales enables hyper-extensibility of Lacrymaria olor
Event: Cell Bio 2023 - An ASCB | EMBO Meeting
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: Improving the accessibility of screen-shared presentations by enabling concurrent exploration
Event: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
