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

Marko Jakovljevic - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Dahl
Talk Title: Tracking Blood Flow Changes in the Brains of Neonates using Angular-coherence-based Power Doppler
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: In vivo Imaging of Blood Flow in the Brain using Coherence-based Power Doppler Ultrasound
Event: Image Reconstruction from Millimetres to the Globe: Bridging the Gap Between Seismic and Medical Imaging
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Mirwais Wardak - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Infections with 6ʹʹ-[18F]-Fluoromaltotriose PET/CT
Event: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2018 Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Arek Melkonian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemical Engineering/MSTP
Faculty Advisor: Chaitan Khosla
Talk Title: Transglutaminase 2 inactivation by ERp57
Event: Federation for American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB): Functional Disulfide Bonds in Health and Disease

Yuan Chang Leong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Jamil Zaki
Talk Title: Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivational biases in perceptual decision-making
Event: The Organization of Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

Gillie Agmon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Sustained release vaccine platforms for enhanced humoral immunity
Event: Nanotechnology in Medicine II: Bridging Translational in vitro and in vivo Interfaces

Anthony Yu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Enabling long-term antibody delivery with polymer-nanoparticle supramolecular hydrogels
Event: 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions in Supramolecular Hydrogels: Enabling Long-Term Antibody Delivery
Event: Nanotechnology in Medicine II: Bridging Translational in vitro and in vivo Interfaces

Paola Moreno-Roman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lucy O'Brien
Talk Title: Septate Junctions Coordinate Growth and Intercalation of Stem Cell Progeny During Epithelial Organ Turnover
Event: Cell Polarity Signaling - Gordon Research Seminar & Conference

Wiley Jennings - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Fecal pollution in the urban ocean: predictors of enterococci and a human marker
Event: UNC Water Microbiology Conference 2018

Steven Leung - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Kim Butts Pauly, Pejman Ghanouni, and Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Prediction of transcranial focused ultrasound focal spots using rapid beam simulations
Event: The 18th International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound

Ashwin Ramachandran - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Faculty Advisor: Juan Santiago
Talk Title: Rapid and multiplexed enrichment of specific DNA sequences using isotachophoresis
Event: 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Inertial effects in microfluidic flow focusing and mixing
Event: 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics

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