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: Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Nima Aghaeepour
Talk Title: Multiomics modeling of preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries
Event: 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation - Camilo received an Underrepresented Minority Registration Award by the SRI board.
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Small molecules to modulate hydrogel gelation and mechanics for dynamic organoid culture
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated progression of fatty liver disease
Event: 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Viscoelastic N‑cadherin-like interactions maintain neural progenitor cell stemness within 3D matrices
Event: 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Spatially controlled fabrication of assembloids with 3D bioprinting
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2024 - Michelle received 1st place in the Biomaterials Graduate Student Award Session.
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Tuning hydrogel viscoelasticity and cell–cell signaling to direct neural maturation
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition - Michelle received the Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Honorable Mention.
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Matrix remodelability modulates human neural maturation
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2022 Annual Meeting
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Nicholas Melosh and Mark Brongersma<
Talk Title: Electrochemically mutable soft metasurfaces
Event: BioEl Conference on Bioelectronics 2024
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Wavefront manipulation using chemically and electrically driven geometric reconfiguration of polymer metasurfaces
Event: 2022 MRS Fall
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: Aaron Newman and Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: Inferring absolute developmental potential in single cells
Event: 14th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges RSGDREAM 2022
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: Catherine Blish and Purvesh Khatri
Talk Title: Single-cell multi-omic profiling of human influenza challenge uncovers dynamic peripheral innate responses modulated by disease severity and viral shedding
Event: Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) 2025 - Kalani received a FOCIS Research Award at the event.
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Non-human primates replicate conserved human responses to RNA viral infections, with viral family-associated differences in response dynamics
Event: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting 2022
Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Aspirin synergizes with optimized calcium phosphate particles to enhance macroporous scaffold-mediated bone regeneration in vivo
Event: 2023 Society for Biomaterials - Ni was honored to receive a nomination for the SFB postdoc recognition award.
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Cell membrane-coated microribbon scaffolds elicit regenerative immune responses and enhance cranial bone regeneration
Event: 2022 BMES
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Fan Yang and Yan Xia
Talk Title: Adaptable sliding hydrogels with dynamic crosslinks for the enhancement of cartilage regeneration
Event: BMES 2022 Annual Meeting
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Incorporating bone-derived ECM into macroporous microribbon scaffolds for bone regeneration
Event: WBC 2024
Awarded in 2022
Talk Title: Bone ECM-derived macroporous scaffolds for immunomodulation and cranial bone regeneration
Event: 2022 BMES Annual Meeting
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Simulation study of a metamaterial that exploits the plasmonic purcell enhancement effect to achieve a ‘super-scintillator’
Event: IEEE NSS/MIC 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
