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.
Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Guillem Pratx
Talk Title: Single cell imaging using radioluminescence microscopy reveals an unexpected binding pattern for [18F]-HFB
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2017
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kabir Peay
Talk Title: Colonization-competition tradeoffs structure ectomycorrhizal diversity
Event: 9th International Conference on Mycorrhiza
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kabir Peay
Talk Title: Resource economics of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis vary with competitive context and nitrogen addition
Event: 2019 Ecological Society of America - Laura received an additional award for her abstract in the form of additional travel support from the Plant Population Ecology Section of the ESA.
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Mechanisms of generalist host range in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
Event: 3rd international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Rhiju Das
Talk Title: Recurrent neural network models to quantitatively predict RNA-RNA interactions
Event: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 16th European Conference on Computational Biology
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Mary Beth Mudgett and Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Implicate Acetylenic Compounds in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Event: Gordon Research Seminar on Plant Metabolic Engineering
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Discrete (Multi-) Vector Field Design: Representations, Applications and Challenges
Event: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Industrial and Applied Geometry (GD17)
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Robert Waymouth and Paul Wender
Talk Title: Charge-Altering Releasable Transporters (CARTs) for the Delivery and Release of Messenger RNA
Event: 2017 Polymers Gordon Research Conference
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Programming Protein Function with Synthetic RNA Splicing Devices
Event: 2017 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Reconstitution of somatic hypermutation in yeast for targeted evolution
Event: 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Evolution
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Orientation Estimation of a Continuum Manipulator in a Phantom Lung
Event: International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2017
