Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan Santiago
Talk Title: Surface functional groups in capacitive deionization with porous carbon electrodes
Event: 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics

Home Department: Cardiovascular Institute
Faculty Advisor: Joseph Wu
Talk Title: Cell Type-Specific Chromatin Signatures Underline Regulatory DNA Elements in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cardiac Cells
Event: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2017 - Mingtao was selected as one of 5 finalists for the Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Research Prize, for which he received a plaque and a monetary award.
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Geological Sciences
Faculty Advisors: Jonathan Payne and Kevin Boyce
Talk Title: The relationship between wing pattern and venation, from Micropterigidae to Macroheterocera
Event: XXI European Congress of Lepidopterology

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Changing oxygen levels throughout the Phanerozoic: implications for the origin of terrestrial animals
Event: Geological Society of America 130th Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Presentation by the recipient of the 2017 Snodgrass Memorial Research Award: The comparative morphology of wing pattern in Lepidoptera
Event: Entomology 2017: Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America

Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: James Chen
Talk Title: Optical control of neural ablation in zebrafish as a model for secondary injury mechanisms
Event: Society for Neuroscience – Neuroscience 2017
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisors: Anshul Kundaje and Paul Khavari
Talk Title: Decoding regulatory sequence across skin differentiation
Event: 10th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Evaluation of a TOF-PET detector design that achieves ≤100 ps coincidence time resolution
Event: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Paul George
Talk Title: In vivo electrical stimulation of neural stem cells via a conductive polymer scaffold to enhance stroke recovery
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Matrix stress relaxation regulates tumor growth in three dimensional microenvironments through control over p27
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Michael Snyder
Talk Title: Functional regulatory mechanism of smooth muscle cell-restricted LMOD1 coronary artery disease locus
Event: American Society of Human Genetics 2017 Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: Anshul Kundaje and Michael Bassik
Talk Title: Transcriptome-wide association studies are vulnerable to false positives due to co-regulation
Event: American Society of Human Genetics 2017 Annual Meeting