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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Chih-Chien Chou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Albert Koong
Talk Title: IRE1-XBP1 Signaling Facilitates Anti-tumor Effects by Inducing Immunogenic Cell Death in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
Event: The 15th International Tumor Microenvironment Workshop
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Marjan Rafat - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Edward Graves
Talk Title: CD8+ T cells Prevent Circulating Tumor Cell Recruitment After Radiation
Event: The 15th International Tumor Microenvironment Workshop
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Samuel Cartmell - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: School of Medicine
Faculty Advisors: Jennifer McNab and Casey Halpern
Talk Title: Segmentation of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Using High-Resolution Diffusion Tractography
Event: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Christopher Madl - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Bioegineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Matrix remodeling enhances the differentiation capacity of neural progenitor cells in 3D hydrogels
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting 2019
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

 

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Maintenance of Neural Progenitor Cell Stemness in 3D Hydrogels Requires Matrix Remodeling
Event: Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2017

Hong-pyo Lee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Enhanced Stress Relaxation In Hydrogels Promotes Cartilage Matrix Formation By Chondrocytes
Event: ORS (Orthopaedic Research Society) 2017 Annual Meeting

Julie Fogarty - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: James R. Swartz
Talk Title: Developing a Modular Virus-like Particle Vaccine Platform for Viral Diseases
Event: 7th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering

Peter Combs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Hunter Fraser
Talk Title: Spatially varying allele specific expression in Drosophila hybrids
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Christopher Probert - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Genetics / Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: DeepNuc: a deep learning model that accurately predicts genome-wide nucleosome positioning from ATAC-seq
Event: Genome Informatics 2016

Li (Eric) Yi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Deep Part Induction from Articulated Object Pairs
Event: SIGGRAPH Asia 2018

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Learning Hierarchical Shape Segmentation and Labeling from Online Repositories
Event: SIGGRAPH 2017

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: A scalable active framework for region annotation in 3D shape collections
Event: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Samir Menon - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Oussama Khatib
Talk Title: From Bot to Bot: Using a Chat Bot to Synthesize Robot Motion
Event: 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for Human Robot Interaction

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