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

Feng He - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Faculty Advisor: Georgios Skiniotis
Talk Title: Activation mechanism, G protein coupling and structure-based drug discovery of the calcium-sensing receptor
Event: The 4th International Symposium on the Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaSR) - Feng was among the 10 speakers that received the ASBMR/NIH Travel Award at the event.

Ryan Hamnett - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Neurosurgery
Faculty Advisor: Julia Kaltschmidt
Talk Title: Glutamatergic circuitry regulates intestinal motility
Event: NeuroGASTRO 2023(CaSR) - Ryan was awarded the opportunity to present at this event by being voted one of the three best talks at the Little Brain Big Brain (LBBB) Symposium in September 2022.

Byunghang Ha - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Matrix flow point regulates T-cell migration through confining microenvironments
Event: BMES Annual Meetings 2023

Ananya Goyal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Feliks Kogan
Talk Titles: Comparison of new MR approaches for accelerated knee imaging and
Evaluation of metabolic response in bone marrow lesions after exercise in relation to changes in adjacent cartilage T2 values
Event: International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging 2023 - Ananya was one of four presenters to receive an award for “Best Scientific Abstract.”

Rama Reddy Goluguri - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: James Spudich
Talk Title: Role of the super-relaxed state of ß-cardiac myosin in the pathomechanism of dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: AHA Scientific Sessions 2023

Yirui (Arlene) Zhang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Combining surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy and electrokinetics for bacterial monitoring in wastewater
Event: 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit

Ellie Flaum - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Curved crease origami at cellular scales enables hyper-extensibility of Lacrymaria olor
Event: Cell Bio 2023 - An ASCB | EMBO Meeting

Danyang Fan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: Improving the accessibility of screen-shared presentations by enabling concurrent exploration
Event: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Qiwen Deng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Gerlinde Wernig
Talk Title: Decoding the spatial transcriptomic landscape of diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology (ASN), ASN Kidney Week 2023

Nicholas Cecchi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Simulation evaluation of a liquid football helmet under concussive and subconcussive impact loading
Event: 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

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