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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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

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

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

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.

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 

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

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

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

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

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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