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

Headshot portrait of Rachael Mow- Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rachael Mow - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Novel helicene unit for incorporation in spring-shape polymers that maintain electronic performance
Event: ACS Fall 2025

Headshot portrait of Leili Mortazavi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Leili Mortazavi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisors: Brian Knutson and Karl Deisseroth
Talk Title: Cross-species translation of neurobehavioral markers of drug relapse 
Event: Winter Brain 2025

Headshot portrait of Davide Momi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Davide Momi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Nolan Williams
Talk Title: Subgenual-Prefrontal Interactions and Cortical Inhibition Drive iTBS Efficacy in Treatment-Resistant Depression
Event: OHBM 2025 - At this event, Davide organized and led an Educational Course on Neural Field Theory, was invited to speak at two satellite events, chaired a symposium, gave two talks, and presented two posters.

Headshot portrait of Lauren Lubeck - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Lauren Lubeck - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Chris Lowe and Bo Wang
Talk Title: Modulations depending on life history: Wnt signaling in posterior patterning of hemichordate embryos
Event: Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates 2025

Headshot portrait of Tara Lowensohn - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Tara Lowensohn - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Development of Pooled Gene Perturbation and Protoplast Sorting Technologies Enable a First-In-Class, in planta Single-Cell Genetic Screen.
Event: Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology GRS and GRC 2025 - Tara received a poster award at the event.

Headshot portrait of Jingjia Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jingjia Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Possu Huang
Talk Title: A protein scaffold for the facile generation of ligand-specific MR1 binders
Event: 14th International CD1 MR1 Workshop - Jingjia received the CD1-MR1 Travel Award for her abstract.

Headshot portrait of Sabrina Liu- Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sabrina Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Todd Coleman
Talk Title: Inferring Dynamic Delays Using a Sample Path Causal Measure
Event: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Headshot portrait of Candace Liu- Bio-X Travel Awardee

Candace Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Michael Angelo
Talk Title: Multi-dimensional longitudinal spatial profiling reveals dynamic ART-linked lymphoid tissue remodeling in SIV infection
Event: 2025 Keystone Symposia - HIV Cure: Antiretroviral Therapy-Free Control of HIV Infection

Headshot portrait of Boyuan (Alan) Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Boyuan (Alan) Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Biomedical Physics
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Increasing spatial resolution in photon counting CT by exploiting the non-linear partial volume effect
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2025

Headshot portrait of Zhijian Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Zhijian Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Paul Wender
Talk Titles: Organ- and cell-selective delivery of mRNA in vivo using oligomeric guanidinylated serinol charge-altering releasable transporters and Discrete immolative guanidinium transporters for mRNA delivery to selective organs and peripheral red blood cells 
Event: ACS Spring 2025

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