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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Calvin Kuo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: David Camarillo and Scott Delp
Talk Title: Head Center of Rotation: How the Neck Constrains Head Motion Following External Loads in Vivo
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Camarin Rolle - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Neuroscience
Faculty Advisor: Amit Etkin
Talk Title: TNovel Brain Stimulation Techniques to Optimize Plasticity Induction in Humans
Event: 2018 Winter Conference on Brain Research

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: TMS-EEG Methods
Event: 5th Science Factory: TMS-EEG Workshop and Summer School

Stephanie Perkins - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Bruce Daniel
Talk Title: A Mixed-Reality System for Breast Surgical Planning
Event: 16th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

Véronique Peiffer - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Bioengineering/Byers Center for Biodesign
Faculty Advisor: Paul Yock
Talk Title: The Value-oriented Health Economic Environment: What Every Innovator Should Know
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Amanda Jacobson - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Denise Monack
Talk Title: The host intestinal microbiota limits Salmonella transmission
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Bacterial Pathogenesis & Host Response

Ermelinda Porpiglia - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: High-Resolution Lineage Mapping of Myogenesis in vivo
Event: SELECTBIO Conference: RNA-Seq, Single Cell Analysis and Single Molecule Analysis 2017

Farah Memon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub
Talk Title: Capsule Ultrasound Device: Characterization and Testing Results
Event: 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

Ian Ballard - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisors: Anthony Wagner and Sam McClure
Talk Title: Hippocampal Pattern Separation Supports Reinforcement Learning
Event: Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Yuping Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Gavin Sherlock and Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Single nucleotide mapping of the locally accessible trait space in yeast reveals pareto fronts that constrain initial adaptation
Event: 2019 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Understanding Adaptation and Fitness Trade-offs in Yeast
Event: 2018 Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Understanding Adaptation and Fitness Trade-offs in Yeast
Event: 28th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology

Junzhe Lou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Yan Xia
Talk Title: Stress relaxation hydrogels with tunable mechanics and their applications for 3D cell culture
Event: 254th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting

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