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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Nils Averesch - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Development of microbial production platforms for high-performance polymers for space and earth applications
Event: SBA 2019 Conference
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Lauren Watkins - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc Levenston
Talk Title: Sodium PET-MRI detects regions of abnormal bone response to acute exercise
Event: 2019 International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging

Lucy Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Microstructural heterogeneity influences on the flexural rigidity of the axon
Event: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering – CMBBE 2019

Tanaya Shree - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Medicine - Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Ronald Levy
Talk Title: Impaired immune health in survivors of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL): a large population-based study
Event: 15th International Conference on Malignant Lymphomas
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Amelie Schaefer - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Computational modeling of the biochemical and biomechanical degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease
Event: USNCCM 15, US National Congress on Computational Mechanics

Erin Sanders - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lucy O’Brien
Talk Title: Real-time kinetics of Notch mediated fate decisions during organ renewal
Event: European Drosophila Research Conference 2019

Evan Rosenman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Statistics
Faculty Advisor: Art Owen and Michael Baiocchi
Talk Title: Propensity score methods for merging observational and experimental datasets
Event: 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings

Darci Phillips - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology and Dermatology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Multiparameter tissue imaging reveals the cutaneous T cell lymphoma microenvironment in response to immunotherapy
Event: Society of Investigative Dermatology 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Tyler Kukla - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Geological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: C Page Chamberlain
Talk Title: Triple oxygen isotope signatures of eocene topographic development
Event: Goldschmidt 2019

Aaron Kucyi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Josef Parvizi
Talk Title: Human intracranial electrophysiology of the default, dorsal attention and salience networks
Event: Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

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