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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.

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Headshot portrait of Xianghao Zhan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Xianghao Zhan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Toward generalizable brain deformation estimators for head impacts with unsupervised domain adaptation and deep learning
Event: 2023 Summer Conference on Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Mouthguard denoising with one-dimensional convolutional neural network for accurate brain strain calculation
Event: ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

Headshot portrait of Yuqi Tan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yuqi Tan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Streamlined computational tools for multiplexed imaging in 2D and 3D
Event: Multi-Omics 2024

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Characterizing temporal restructuring of melanoma landscape introduced by adoptive T Cell therapy using spatial multiomics
Event: Summer School Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Sevahn	Vorperian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sevahn Vorperian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Quake
Talk Title: Cell-free RNA liquid biopsies at cell type resolution
Event: 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Headshot portrait of Audrey Shih - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Audrey Shih - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Gerald Fuller
Talk Title: Magnetic stress rheometer for biological fluid characterization
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting 2024 - Audrey received an Excellence in Fluid Mechanics Research and Oral Presentation Award for the talk.

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Magnetic stress rheometer for biological fluid characterization
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Magnetic stress rheometer for abscess fluid characterization
Event: Society of Rheology 2022

Headshot portrait of Aleena Patel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Aleena Patel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Alistair Boettiger
Talk Title: Imaging enhancer promoter bridging in a folded chromatin polymer
Event: Venice meeting on fluctuations in small complex systems

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Diana Jeong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Diana Jeong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Interferometric measurement of ionizing radiation-induced transient changes in complex refractive index
Event: IEEE NSS-MIC 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Shirin Pourashraf - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Shirin Pourashraf - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: <2mm continuous DOI positioning in arrays of side-coupled crystals for a highly compact 100 ps FWHM CTR TOF-PET detector design
Event: 2024 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Highly compact and scalable 100 ps CTR + 3D positioning TOF-PET detector sub-unit
Event: The 2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, together with the International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Electronic readout for a 100 ps CTR PET detector with 24:1 multiplexing ratio of timing channels
Event: 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Savannah Cofer - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Savannah Cofer - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: Detecting touch and grasp gestures using a wrist-worn optical and inertial sensing network
Event: IEEE IROS 2022: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Headshot portrait of John Christopher Janetzko - Bio-X Travel Awardee

John Christopher Janetzko - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Faculty Advisor: Brian Kobilka
Talk Title: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of GPCR recognition by β-arrestins
Event: The G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinases and Arrestins Conference: Key Modulators of Signal Transduction

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Headshot portrait of Harman Jaggi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Harman Jaggi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Shripad Tuljapurkar
Talk Title: Dynamic enamine-one bonds enabled sustainable polymeric materials
Event: 58th Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)

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