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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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Headshot portrait of Lucy Xu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Lucy Xu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Departments: Genetics and Biology
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: Single-cell transcriptomics reveals restoration of neuronal progenitors in the old neurogenic niche by partial reprogramming
Event: Biology of Aging - Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Headshot portrait of Yue Wu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yue Wu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Michael Snyder
Talk Title: Classify dynamic responses to food through time-series glucose data
Event: Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting - 2023

Headshot portrait of Cassondra Eng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Cassondra Eng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Allan Reiss
Talk Title: Promoting cognitive, motor, and brain development in enriching virtual reality contexts for gameplay
Event: The 2023 Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting: Bringing Theory to the Forefront of Developmental Neuroscience Conference

Headshot portrait of Xiaozhou Ji - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Xiaozhou Ji - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Near-amorphous semiconducting polymers with non-covalent interactions
Event: 2023 MRS Spring Meeting

Headshot portrait of Eri Takematsu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Eri Takematsu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Surgery
Faculty Advisors: Charles K.F. Chan and Michael Longaker
Talk Title: Deciphering skeletal stem cell interaction with immune cells at bone regenerative interface to advance BMP-2 based bone regeneration
Event: 2024 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Advances in Mineral Metabolism

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Molecular engineering a synthetic BMP-2 analog for specific targeting of the skeletal stem cell niche
Event: 2023 AIMM-ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Meeting

Headshot portrait of Rahul Chajwa - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rahul Chajwa - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Those sinking moments: Measuring sedimentation dynamics of marine snow
Event: American Physical Society (APS) March 2023 Meeting

Headshot portrait of James Ferrare - Bio-X Travel Awardee

James Ferrare - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Good
Talk Title: Evolution of evolvability in rapidly adapting populations
Event: American Physical Society (APS) March 2023 Meeting

Headshot portrait of John McEnany - Bio-X Travel Awardee

John McEnany - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Good
Talk Title: Predicting the first steps of evolution in randomly assembled microbial communities
Event: American Physical Society (APS) March 2023 Meeting

Headshot portrait of Sayantan Dutta - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sayantan Dutta - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Spakowitz
Talk Title: Reconstructing chromatin structural connectivity from sparse locus tracking experiments using polymer dynamics modeling
Event: American Physical Society (APS) March 2023 Meeting

Headshot portrait of Chiu-Chun (Jonathan) Chou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Chiu-Chun (Jonathan) Chou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Laura Dassama
Talk Title: Rapid proteome-wide prediction of lipid-interacting proteins through ligand-guided structural genomics
Event: Bacterial Cell Surfaces GRS 2024

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Substrates, structures, and mechanisms of the bacterial TPAT family of transporters
Event: ACS Fall 2023

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