Photo of 5 Travel Award recipients standing in the Clark Center courtyard.

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.

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Mike Guernsey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2020

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Julie Baker
Talk Title: Poeciliopsis maternal follicle transcriptomes reveal importance of placenta and secretory genes in the emergence of live-birth

Seung Yeon Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Promiscuity of dirigent proteins and their application for lignan analog synthesis
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting 2019

Christopher Cooper - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Ordering supramolecular structures from periodic dynamic polymers
Event: ACS Fall 2022 Meeting - Chris gave an invited talk in the graduate student award symposium and received 2nd place overall

Johanna O'Day - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Subtalamic deep brain stimulation at 60 Hz and 140 Hz improves gait features in people with Parkinson’s disease
Event: 2019 International Society of Biomechanics Congress

Heidi Arjes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: KC Huang
Talk Title: A biosurfactant maintains viability in anoxic conditions by depolarizing the membrane in B. subtilis
Event: 2019 West Coast Bacterial Physiologists
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Nicole Schiavone - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alison Marsden
Talk Title: Assessment of cardiac output effects on bioprosthetic pulmonary valve behavior using magnetic resonance velocimetry
Event: 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics

Jaewan Mun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Conjugated Carbon Cyclic Nanoring as Additives for Intrinsically Stretchable Semiconducting Polymers
Event: 2019 MRS Fall Meeting

Jinxing Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Morphing Electronics for Growing Tissue
Event: 2019 MRS Fall Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Eric Gonzalez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: Investigating the detection of bimanual haptic retargeting in virtual reality
Event: 25th Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - Eric received the Best Short Paper award at the event.

Laksshman Sundaram - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Anshul Kundaje and William Greenleaf
Talk Title: Unsupervised deep learning for interpretation of human genetic variation
Event: American Society of Human Genetics 2019 Annual Meeting

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