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.

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Emily Ebel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: PacBio genome sequencing reveals rampant structural mutation in the genome of the malaria parasite
Event: 2018 Population, Evolution, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Awarded in 2016

Talk Title: Malaria parasites drive adaptation in mammalian genomes
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016

David Zeng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dwight Nishimura
Talk Titles: T2-Prepared Multidimensional Outer Volume Suppression for Coronary Imaging
Event: Coronary Magnetic Resonance 2018

Petar Petrov - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2020

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: W.E. Moerner
Talk Title: Measurement of the depth-dependence of point spread functions near the glass-water interface in high-numerical aperture microscopy
Event:
Quantitative BioImaging 2020
Awarded in 2019
Talk Title: A tilted light sheet for single-molecule super-resolution imaging in thick cells
Event: Quantitative BioImaging Conference 2019

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Modeling engineered point spread functions for 3D single-molecule localization microscopy
Event: Quantitative BioImaging Conference 2018

Mats Persson - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Generalized linear-systems framework for performance assessment of energy-resolving photon-counting detectors
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2018

Supported by Mr. Matthew Frank

Sandra Nielsen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Scott Boyd
Talk Title: Analysis of B cell IgE responses to environmental factors in infancy and childhood
Event: 12th World Immune Regulation Meeting (WIRM)

Supported by Mr. Matthew Frank

Inho Nam - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Richard Zare
Talk Title: Abiotic fabrication of sugar phosphates and ribonucleosides in water microdroplets
Event: Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting

Supported by Mr. Matthew Frank

Surya Murty - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: 18F-FHBG PET reporter gene imaging and ganciclovir-mediated ablation of B7H3 chimeric antigen receptor T-cells in solid tumors through HSV1-sr39tk
Event: World Molecular Imaging Conference 2019 Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Intravital imaging of CAR-T cells directed against GD2 in a preclinical immunocompetent glioblastoma model
Event: American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Immunobiology of Primary and Metastatic CNS Cancer Special Conference

Molly Lucas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisor: Amit Etkin
Talk Titles: Novel Brain Techniques to Optimize Plasticity Induction in Humans and Enhancing Scientific Rigor and Reproducibility: Are We Doing Better?
Event: 2018 Winter Conference on Brain Research

Ivan Ivanov - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zev Bryant
Talk Title: Multimodal measurements of single-molecule dynamics using FluoRBT
Event: Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting

Claire Gustsafson - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Medicine - Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Jörg Goronzy
Talk Title: Differentiation- and Age-Related MicroRNA Profiling Reveals Two Dimensions of CD8 T Cell Aging
Event: Keystone Symposium: Aging, Inflammation and Immunity

Supported by Mr. Matthew Frank

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