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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 Manish Ayushman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Manish Ayushman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Stem cell dancing enhances 3D chondrogenesis via early-stage cytoskeleton and nuclear mechanosensing
Event: 2024 Gordon Research Conference- Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology

Headshot portrait of Alexandra Khristich - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Alexandra Khristich - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Predicting evolutionary success of wild yeast strains from short-term fitness data
Event: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology

Headshot portrait of Bernard Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Bernard Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Ultra-precise mapping of natural selection in Drosophila with clade-scale population genomic data
Event: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology

Headshot portrait of Sophia Bailey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sophia Bailey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Towards controlled drug delivery from hydrogels based on ultrasound induced molecular release
Event: 2024 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference, Multiscale Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology

Headshot portrait of Jake Song - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jake Song - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Non-linear elasticity of composite hydrogels and biological tissues
Event: International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2024

Headshot portrait of Ivan Zheludev - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Ivan Zheludev - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Fire
Talk Title: Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes
Event: Viruses of Microbes 2024

Headshot portrait of Afik Faerman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Afik Faerman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: David Spiegel and Nolan Williams
Talk Title: The future of noninvasive brain stimulation in psychotherapy
Event: Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2024

Headshot portrait of Chiara Gasteiger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Chiara Gasteiger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Alia Crum
Talk Title: Using word clouds to examine patients' perceptions of inflammatory arthritis
Event: 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS 2024)

Headshot portrait of Rebekah Gullberg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rebekah Gullberg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Judith Frydman
Talk Title: SARS-CoV2 orf3A enhanced VLPs reveal fundamental aspects of virion assembly
Event: The American Society for Virology Annual Meeting 2024

Headshot portrait of Yuanhao Qu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yuanhao Qu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Cancer Biology
Faculty Advisor: Le Cong
Talk Title: Perturbing and tracing tumor lineages resistant to NK killing
Event: Single-Cell Genomics GRC 2024

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