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

Andres Baresch - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Geological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: C Kevin Boyce
Talk Title: Competition for epidermal space in the evolution of leaves with high physiological rates
Event: Botanical Society of America 2019

Wakuna Galega - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Elucidating the Role of CO2 in Type II Methanotrophic Growth & Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Synthesis
Event: Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2018 - Innovations in Transforming Waste to Value-Added Products

Nishant Mehta - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Engineering Cross-Reactive Anti-VISTA Antibodies for Cancer Immunotherapy
Event: Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics

Gunsagar Gulati - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Cancer Biology
Faculty Advisors: Aaron Newman, Michael Clarke, and Irving Weissman
Talk Title: Robust Reconstruction of Single Cell Differentiation Trajectories using CytoTRACE
Event: Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics (RSG) 2018

Eneko Axpe Iza - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Injectable hydrogel for bone healing in astronauts
Event: 2019 NASA Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: A Multiscale Model for Solute Diffusion in Hydrogels
Event: 2018 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall MeetingSupported by The Matthew Frank Family

Xinjian Shi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Light-Driven BiVO4-C Fuel Cell with Simultaneous Production of H2O2
Event: 2018 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting

Xulu Sun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Krishna Shenoy
Talk Title: Systematic changes of neural population activity during curl force field adaptation and generalization
Event: Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control 2018

Hongjie Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Liqun Luo
Talk Title: Classifying Drosophila olfactory neuron subtypes by single-cell RNA-seq
Event: Society for Neuroscience 2018
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Courtney Gegg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Recreating Cartilage Zonal Organization Using Spatially Patterned Microribbon-based Hydrogels
Event: 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting

Suhaas Anbazhakan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Alison Marsden and Kristy Red-Horse
Talk Title: Native coronary collateralization during mammalian embryogenesis
Event: WCB 2022

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