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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Orly Liba - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Adam de la Zerda
Talk Title: Spectral Analysis for Molecular Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in vivo and Characterizing Nanoparticle Microbiodistribution Using Adaptive DarkField Hyperspectral Microscopy - Orly received two awards from the conference organizers: a Women in Molecular Imaging Scholar award and a Student Travel Stipend award.
Event: World Molecular Imaging Conference 2016

Alex Diezmann - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: W.E. Moerner
Talk Title: Correcting nanoscale aberrations over the field of view in three-dimensional localization microscopy”
Event: Picoquant's 22nd International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy in the Life Sciences

Michael Fanton - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Optimizing padding thickness in football helmets to minimize angular acceleration
Event: CMBBE 2019

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Constant force shock absorbers for preventing traumatic brain injury
Event: 8th World Congress of Biomechanics

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: The Effect Of Neck Musculature On Brain Tissue Strain In High-speed Sagittal Impacts
Event: 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Investigation of Football Head Impacts Through Development of a Dynamic Model”
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society 2016 Annual Meeting

Lily Blair - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Fisher
Talk Title: Within and between individual convergence in the human antibody repertoire in response to influenza vaccines and dengue infection
Event: Deep Sequencing in Infectious Diseases Workshop 2016

Salil Bhate - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Garry Nolan and Stanley Qi
Talk Title: Automatic identification of niches and immune interactions responsible for positive clinical response using multiparameter imaging and deep neural networks
Event: 2nd CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference

Eden Maloney - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Olivia Martinez
Talk Title: Integrative, multi-cohort analysis of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-positive and negative tumor samples to identify gene-signatures associated with EBV oncogenesis
Event: 26th International Congress of The Transplantation Society

Xiaofan Jin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Ingmar Riedel-Kruse
Talk Title: Optically patterned biofilms for synthetic microbial consortia
Event: Biofilms 8

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Patterned biofilms for synthetic microbial consortia
Event: Biofilms 7

Elliott SoRelle - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Adam de la Zerda
Talk Title: Contrast-enhanced optical coherence tomography with picomolar sensitivity enables functional 3D imaging of deep tumor microvasculature and lymphatic drainage in live animal models
Event: World Molecualr Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2016

Jackson Liang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Faculty Advisor: Lucy O'Brien
Talk Title: An intercellular E-cadherin-EGFR relay maintains organ size during renewal by coupling cell division and death
Event: The Allied Genetics Conference 2016

Brad Palanski - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Chaitan Khosla
Talk Title: Activation of Extracellular TG2
Event: 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Transglutaminases in Human Disease Processes

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