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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Headshot portrait of Catherine Meis Kasse - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Catherine Meis Kasse - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Designing supramolecular hydrogels for long-term subcutaneous antibody delivery
Event: American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2022 Meeting

Awarded in 2021

Talk Title: Delivering an antibody against SARS-CoV-2 from a subcutaneous supramolecular hydrogel depot
Event: 2021 MRS Fall meeting

Awarded in 2020

Talk Title: Supramolecular Hydrogels for Sustained Release and Enhanced Thermal Stability of Biotherapeutics
Event: World Biomaterials Congress 2020

Awarded in 2019

Talk Title: Supramolecular Hydrogels for Sustained Release and Enhanced Thermal Stability of Biotherapeutics
Event: 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting

Headshot portrait of Joseph Mann - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Joseph Mann - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Universal scaling behaviour during network formation in living polymerizations
Event: American Chemical Society Fall 2019 National Meeting

Headshot portrait of Zhengzhi Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Zhengzhi Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Simultaneous dual isotope ToF-PET imaging
Event: 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and 26th International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD)
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of David Mackanic - Bio-X Travel Awardee

David Mackanic - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Scalable and facile preparation of dynamic single-ion-conducting networks (DSN) for lithium metal stabilization
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting 2019 - David received 1st Place, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, after being judged by a panel of four professors.

Headshot portrait of Christopher Lindsay - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Christopher Lindsay - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: 3D-bioprinted lattices for efficient expansion of neural stem cells
Event: 2019 International Conference on Biofabrication 

Headshot portrait of Patricia Lan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Patricia Lan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2020
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Gary Glover
Talk Title: Simultaneous fMRI/fMRE reveals BOLD and viscoelastic changes in the cerebellum during motor planning
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s 28th Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2019
Talk Title: Simultaneous fMRE and fMRI measures the viscoelastic and BOLD responses of the human brain to functional activation in the visual cortex
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s 27th Annual Meeting
Headshot portrait of Rachel Jackson - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rachel Jackson - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Alternative human-in-the-loop exoskeleton assistance strategies: heuristic-based exoskeleton control for co-adaptive locomotor assistance
Event: 2019 International Society of Biomechanics Congress
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Andrew Groll - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Andrew Groll - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Characterization of a large volume cadmium zinc telluride preclinical PET system
Event: 2019 Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), and the International Symposium on Room Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD)
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Sarah Divel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sarah Divel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Image-domain insertion of spatially correlated, locally varying noise in CT images
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2019

Headshot portrait of Michael D'Antonio - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Michael D'Antonio - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Geological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: C Kevin Boyce
Talk Title: Arborescent lycopsid periderm production was limited
Event: Botanical Society of America 2019 - Michael was awarded a Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America for his research.

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