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: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Photoacoustic and fluorescent molecular imaging of bacterial infections: development, preclinical evaluation and means for clinical translation
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC2019)
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Learning a generative model for multi-step human-object interactions from video
Event: Eurographics 2019 - He's work received the best paper honorable mention award.
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Liqun Luo
Talk Title: Large-scale circuit dynamics in the cortex-cerebellum network
Event: 29th Annual Society for the Neural Control of Movement Meeting - Mark was one of a few postdocs chosen by the conference organizers to receive the NCM Award in recognition of his work.
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Combining simulations and experiments to design a muscle coordination retraining strategy that reduces knee contact force
Event: 2020 CAMS-Knee Opensim Workshop at ETH Zurich
Awarded in 2019
Talk Title: Personalization improves the efficacy of gait modifications at reducing the knee adduction moment in individuals with medial knee osteoarthritis
Event: 2019 International Society of Biomechanics Congress - Scott's abstract was selected as a David Winter Young Investigator Award Finalist.
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Molecularly engineering polymers for biodegradable and stretchable electronic
Event: American Chemical Society 2019 - Helen was invited to participated as a Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Scholar. These scholars are chosen by conference organizers and ad hoc members of the selection committee as talented postdocs who have made significant contributions to their respective fields within polymer materials science and engineering.
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Collagen I-mediated stem cell mechanotransduction depends on solvent type
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2019 - Alice was selected to receive a BMES Career Development Award at the event.
Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Mapping the spatial architecture of acute myeloid leukemia in the bone marrow microenvironment by multiplexed ion beam imaging
Event: Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 34th Annual Meeting (SITC 2019)
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Birgitt Schuele
Talk Title: Downregulation of alpha-synuclein via CRISPR interference in patient-derived stem cell model of Parkinson’s Disease
Event: Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases Congress - AD/PD™ Lisbon, 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Gerald Fuller
Talk Title: The hydrodynamic breadboard: clog-free cell sorting using hydrodynamic obstacles
Event: 2019 Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics Gordon Research Seminar - Endre received a travel award from the GRS to cover the conference fee.
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
