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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Matthew Titchenal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Constance Chu and Thomas Andriacchi
Talk Title: A New Serum Biomarker Stress Test Correlates with Novel MRI UTE-T2* and Gait Mechanics in Patients at High Risk for Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
Event: 2018 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) - Matthew was nominated for the Young Investigator Award: nominations were offered to the top 3% of abstracts from a pool of over 350 submissions.

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Early Changes in the Knee Joint Center of Rotation During Walking Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Correlate with Later Changes in Patient Reported Outcomes
Event: AOSSM 2016 Annual Meeting - Matthew's paper was awarded the O’Donoghue Sports Injury Award which is given to the best overall paper which deals with clinical based research or human in-vivo research

Nora Yucel - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Metabolic Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Acetylation Landscape during Regeneration
Event: 2016 Keystone Symposia: Epigenetic and Metabolic Regulation of Aging and Aging-Related Diseases

Qiyuan Tian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer McNab
Talk Title: Diffusion MRI Tractography for Improved MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy Targeting for Essential Tremor
Event: 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - Qiyuan received the Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (top 3% of submitted abstracts at the meeting).

Maurice Lee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: W.E. Moerner
Talk Title: 3D single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence microscopy with the corkscrew point spread function
Event: 2016 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

Frank Moss - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boxer Talk Title: Ladderane phospholipids form dense, low-polarity membranes with low proton/hydroxide permeability
Event: 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Nanometer-Scale Lipid Clusters in Model Membranes Revealed by Atomic Recombination in NanoSIMS
Event: 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Atomic recombination in nanosims as a method to measure nanometer-scale intermolecular distances in lipid bilayers
Event: 2016 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

Charles (Ruizhongtai) Qi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
Event: 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Volumetric and Multi-View CNNs for Object Classification on 3D Data
Event: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Render for CNN: Viewpoint Estimation in Images Using CNNs Trained with Rendered 3D Model Views
Event: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015

Feiyu Chen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: John Pauly and Shreyas Vasanawala
Talk Title: Variable Density Single-Shot Fast Spin Echo with Auto-Calibrated Wave Encoding
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Auto-Calibrating Wave-CS for Motion-Robust Accelerated MRI
Event: ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction 2016

Chen Ran - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisors: Xiaoke Chen and Liqun Luo
Talk Title: Spinal Cord Circuit for Thermosensation and its Reorganization in Persistent Pain
Event: Keystone Symposia on Synapses and Circuits: Formation, Function and Dysfunction

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: The coding of cutaneous temperature in the spinal cord
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences - New Advances in Optical Imaging of Live Cells and Organisms

Lucien Weiss - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: W.E. Moerner
Talk Title: Unraveling the Hedgehog Signaling Pathway by Single-Molecule Tracking
Event: Gordon Research Seminar 2016

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Single-molecule tracking of Smoothened reveals binding in the primary cilium that is altered by pathway agonists
Event: American Society of Cell Biology 2014

Gokul Ramaswami - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Jin Billy Li
Talk Title: Genetic mapping uncovers cis-regulatory landscape of RNA editing
Event: The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on RNA Editing-From Prediction to Function

 

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