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: Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: A Comparison of Three Intertidal Biosurveying Methods: Conventional Quadrat Surveying and eDNA Metabarcoding of Sediment and Water
Event: Western Society of Naturalists 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Transparent, Patternable and Stretchable Conducting Polymer Solid Electrode forDielectric Elastomer Actuators
Event: MRS Spring 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Michaëlle N. Mayalu
Talk Title: Model of Biomolecular Controller with Bi-Stability Simulates Gut Infection Detection and Treatment Via Various Strategies
Event: 2025 American Control Conference
Home Department: MIPS
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Detector design for a high-resolution, MR-compatible, breast-dedicated multiplexed PET (mPET) system
Event: 2025 SNMMI Annual Meeting
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Emma Lundberg
Talk Title: Intrinsic Diversity in Primary Cilia Revealed Through Spatial Proteomics
Event: 2025 Gordon Research Conference on "Cilia, Mucus and Mucociliary Interactions"
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Efficient H2O2 Production Via Two-Electron Water Oxidation Reaction Via Mott-Schottky Junction Effect
Event: 247th Electrochemical Society Meeting
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: A Scalable, Translatable Hydrogel Platform for Improving Subunit Vaccines
Event: 2025 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Possu Huang
Talk Title: Learning millisecond protein dynamics from what is missing in NMR spectra
Event: 2025 Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR Gordon Research - Gina's presentation won The FEBS Journal Prize for Best Presentation Award.
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: Edgar Engleman and Nathan Reticker-Flynn
Talk Title: Harnessing neutrophils to prevent metastasis
Event: AAI Immunology 2025 - Mark was awarded a Trainee Abstract Award at the event.
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Discovery and engineering of Cephalotaxus alkaloid biosynthesis
Event: 2025 Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Yaereen receive the Best Student Poster – Natural Products award, one of the prestigious Student Poster Awards given at the meeting.
