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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Emily Hollenbeck - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Gerald Fuller and Lynette Cegelski
Talk Title: Contribution of Extracellular Proteinaceous Fibers to the Adhesion of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli to Bladder Cells
Event: The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology

Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Diffusion-based Latent Shape Spaces
Event: Eurographics Symposium in Geometry Processing 2018

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Stable Region Correspondences between Non-Isometric Shapes
Event: International Geometry Summit 2016

Trevor Martin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Hunter Fraser
Talk Title: Dynamic genetic control of gene expression and DNA methylation in human aging
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016

Noelle Rabiah - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Gerald Fuller and Lynette Cegelski
Talk Title: Protein release from contact lenses monitored by interfacial viscoelasticity
Event: The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Influence of tear-film component integration on contact lens wettability
Event: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2018

Abhay Bangalore Ramachandra - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: ICME
Faculty Advisor: Alison Marsden
Talk Title: Virtual Evaluation Of Surgical Revascularization Techniques In Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Event: 2016 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference - Abhay was a finalist at the student paper competition, garnering the third place prize.

Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisors: Christina Curtis and Michael Snyder
Talk Title: Genetics of 38 serum and urine laboratory tests in the UK Biobank
Event: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland Jamboree 2019

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Convergence of dispersed regulatory variants in cancer predisposition
Event: 2016 Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Face-to-Face

Uchechukwuka Monu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Garry Gold
Talk Title: A Method to Quantitatively Compare Bone and Cartilage Changes Post Knee Injury: Initial Results
Event: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Imaging 24th Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Uche's work was awarded the Magna Cum Laude Merit Award, which was granted to the top 15% of submitted abstracts in the same category.

Akshay Chaudhari - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Brian Hargreaves
Talk Title: Deep Learning Super-Resolution Enables Rapid Simultaneous Morphological and Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Event: 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: 5 Minute Comprehensive Knee MRI with 3D Double-Echo Steady-State (DESS)
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting - Akshay's talk received a Magna Cum Laude award, granted to the top 15% of submitted abstracts in the same category.
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: T2 Relaxometry of Short T2 Tissues with High SNR Efficiency
Event: 9th Annual International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging - Akshay won the Best Young Investigator award at this event.

Karen Dubbin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Self-Assembling Bio-inks for 3D printing of Cellular Constructs
Event: 2016 World Biomaterials Congress

Koning Shen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Judith Frydman
Talk Title: Linking the conformational landscape of Huntingtin aggregation species with neuronal toxicity reveals a requirement of the polyQ-flanking regions for proteostasis protection in Huntington’s disease
Event: Protein Homeostasis in Health & Disease 2016

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