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.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Lawrence Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: SwarmHaptics: Haptic Display with Swarm Robots
Event: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Anat Talmon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: James Gross
Talk Title: “Neglected moms” – from childhood emotional neglect to adjustment to motherhood
Event: Child maltreatment and well-being (CMW II): Challenges across borders, research and practices
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Johannes Birgmeier - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Gill Bejerano
Talk Title: ClinPhen Extracts and Prioritizes Patient Phenotypes Directly from Medical Records to Expedite Genetic Disease Diagnosis
Event: ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting 2019 - Johannes had a featured platform presentation (only 4 out of ~1000 submitted abstracts got selected for this in 2019).

Eva González Díaz - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Spatially patterned, 3D in vitro models of cancer metastasis to bone for elucidating key drivers of metastasis and drug discovery
Event: 2022 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2019

Talk Title: A Bioengineered 3D Model Of Osteosarcoma Using Gelatin-based Microribbon Scaffolds
Event: Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2019

Andy Tay - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Management Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Nicholas Melosh
Talk Title: Magnetic Biomedicine
Event: International Forum of Excellent Young Talents in Engineering Science of Peking University 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Yuan Xue - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Quake
Talk Title: Building a single-cell co-transcriptomic atlas of the Toxoplasma interactome
Event: Cell Symposium - Single Cells: Technology to Biology

Arsenii Telichko - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Dahl
Talk Title: Axially-segmented cylindrical array for intravascular shear wave imaging
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Rina Friedberg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Statistics
Faculty Advisors: Michael Baiocchi and Susan Athey
Talk Title: Global Health, Conflicted Data, and GPS - Analyzing a Gender-Based Violence Intervention in Nairobi, Kenya
Event: 2019 Conference on Statistical Practice

Hollis Crowder - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc Levenston
Talk Title: Effects of Ionic and Non-Ionic Clinical CT Contrast Agents on Swelling Behavior of Sheep Meniscus Fibrocartilage
Event: Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2019

Marianne Black - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2020
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Garry Gold
Talk Title: Bilateral femoral cartilage T2 asymmetry analysis for the detection of early osteoarthritic degeneration
Event:
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’s 28th Annual Meeting
Awarded in 2019
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Marc Levenston
Talk Title: Cluster Analysis of T2 Relaxation Times in Superficial and Deep Cartilage: Detecting Early Changes in ACL-Reconstructed Knees
Event: Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2019

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