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: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lucy O’Brien
Talk Title: Bellymount: a novel, method for longitudinal, intravital imaging of abdominal organs in adult Drosophila
Event: Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2019
Home Department: Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Luby
Talk Title: Ruminant fecal contamination introduced to drinking water after collection from shared sources in rural Kenya
Event: UNC Water and Health 2019
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Improving inkjet-printed carbon nanotube transistors via flocculation
Event: NT19: International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: James Gross
Talk Title: An investigation of convergence between trait and state emotion regulation
Event: 3rd World Conference on Personality
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Introducing OpenSim Moco: optimal control methods for musculoskeletal simulation
Event: International Society of Biomechanics 2019
Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Denise Monack
Talk Title: Salmonella Typhi utilizes an RNA thermosensor to regulate virulence factors and evade innate immune responses”
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Labs Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response Meeting 2019
Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Engineering & Science
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Enhanced biodegradation of plastic waste by mealworms (Tenebrio molitor): A step towards overcoming pollution and recovering resources
Event: 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference/9th International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Markerless motion capture as a tool to improve the accessibility and impact of biomechanical measurements
Event: North American Congress on Biomechanics 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2019
Talk Title: An artificial neural network predicts knee loading using 3D marker trajectories of anatomical landmarks
Event: 2019 International Society of Biomechanics
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Musculoskeletal simulations reveal the metabolic benefits of assistive strategies that couple multiple degrees-of-freedom
Event: 2019 International Society of Biomechanics
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Chris Lowe
Talk Title: Nervous system evolution: A molecular genetic characterization of neural cell types in S. kowalevskii
Event: The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting - Jose's abstract was selected among the top 7 within the Division of Neurobiology, Neuroethology, and Sensory Biology to participate in the best oral presentation student award.
