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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Paul Reynolds - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Stackable Electronics Architecture for Densely Packed PET Detectors
Event: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2014

Lauren Elizabeth Steinbaum - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Soil-transmitted helminth contamination of soil in rural Kenyan households
Event: 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy

Amy Calgaro - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Discovery and engineering of an anti-fungal biosynthetic pathway from edible plants
Event: 2017 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Plant Metabolic Engineering

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Discovery and Engineering of Cytochromes P450 from Plant Secondary Metabolism
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference 2015

Li Tao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Study of the coincidence time resolution of new perovskite bulk crystals
Event: 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and 26th International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD)

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Ionizing photon interactions in a material induce modulation of its optical properties at a femtosecond time scale: a new direction to improve timing for ToF‐PET
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: Ionizing photon interactions in a material induce modulation of its optical properties at a femtosecond time scale: A new direction to improve timing for ToF-PET
Event: 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference/24th Symposium on Room-Temperature X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Investigation of Electron Multiplication Effect in Optical Property Modulation-Based Radiation Detection Method for PET
Event: 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Optics Based Method for Ionizing Radiation Photon Detection in PET
Event: 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Minhyuk Sung - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2019
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Structure-aware learning for 3D data
Event: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2019

Awarded in 2018
Talk Title: Learning Fuzzy Set Representations of Partial Shapes on Dual Embedding Spaces
Event: Eurographics Symposium in Geometry Processing 2018

Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: ComplementMe: Weakly-Supervised Component Suggestions for 3D Modeling
Event: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Data-Driven Structural Priors for Shape Completion
Event: SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Huiyuan Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Hybrid Elastin-like Polypeptide-Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogels for 3D Cell Culture with Independently Controlled Matrix Stiffness and Cell Ligand Density
Event: 2015 MRS Fall

Cheen Euong Ang- Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Marius Wernig
Talk Title: Dynamic expression and chromatin changes during embryonic cortical inhibitory neuron specification and direct conversion of fibroblasts to neurons
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Stem Cell Biology Conference 2015

Heather Rogan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: A Comparative Study of Chondrogenesis using Aggregated or Single Mesenchymal Stem Cells in 3D Biomimetic Hydrogels
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2015

Bogdan (Bogi) Conrad - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Microribbon‐based hydrogels guided mesenchymal stem cells to undergo endochondral ossification in vivo
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2017 Annual Meeting - One of Bogdan's presentations was also awarded the Orthopaedic Biomaterials SIG Star Abstract Award and the SFB STAR Award, and the other presentation was a SFB STAR Honorable Mention.

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Microribbon-based hydrogels induced robust osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells and bone regeneration with enhanced mechanical strength
Event: 2016 Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Macroporous Microribbon-Based Hydrogels Accelerate Neocartilage Formation By Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Vitro
Event: Annual Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Meeting 2015

Pankaj Sharma - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sakti Srivastava
Talk Title: Transferring gaming technology to surgery: a portable motion tracking system for assessing psychomotor skills
Event: BEST (Business Engineering and Surgical Technologies) Innovation Symposium 2015

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