Home Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Mark Davis
Talk Title: T-Cell Activation and Repertoire During Murine Malaria
Event: 2015 Malaria Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Pathway Discovery in Medicinal Plants: Elucidation of Podophyllotoxin Biosynthetic Genes
Event: 2015 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference: Plant Metabolic Engineering

Home Department: Applied Physics / Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig S. Levin
Talk Title: Design and initial results of an RF-penetrable TOF PET insert dedicated for brain PET/MRI
Event: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Time-over-Threshold for Pulse Shape Discrimination in a Time-of-fight/Depth-of-Interaction Phoswich PET Detector
Event: 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium / Medical Imaging Conference - Chen-Ming was awarded best oral presentation at this event.

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Preliminary PET Performance Evaluation of an RF Field-Penetrable Brain-sized PET Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging
Event: Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2015 Annual Meeting - Chen-Ming's talk at the Young Investigator Award session was awarded 1st place (Young Investigator Award) from the Computer and Instrumentation Council.

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Lei Xing
Talk Title: EnablingWeb-based Treatment Planning using a State-of-the-Art Convex Optimization Solver
Event: AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Annual Meeting 2015

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: An RNA-based, Generalizable Synthetic Genetic System for Dynamic Regulation
Event: The 14th International Summer School on Biocomplexity, Biodesign and Bioinnovation

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Bandwidth Requirements for Wearable Head Impact Sensors
Event: 2016 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: In vivo Comparison of Wearable Head Impact Sensors
Event: 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Brian Hargreaves
Talk Title: Accelerated Imaging of Metallic Implants Using a Double-Peak-Model Constraint
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting - Xinwei's talk received a Summa cum Laude Merit Award, given to abstracts that score within the top 5% within a category.

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Accelerated Imaging of Metallic Implants Using Model-Based Nonlinear Reconstruction
Event: ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling & Image Reconstruction 2016

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Virtual Coil Navigator: A Robust Localized Motion Estimation Approach for Free-Breathing Cardiac MRI
Event: Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Tracking evolutionary dynamics over time to uncover hidden population structure in within-host Simian-HIV populations
Events: Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2017 and 2017 Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Less efficacious treatments lead to softer sweeps in HIV-1
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2015

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Marius Wernig
Talk Title: Unravelling the Dynamics of Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Neurons
Event: ISSCR 2015 Annual Meeting

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Audrey Ellerbee
Talk Title: Virtual 3D Bladder Reconstruction from White Light Cystoscopy
Event: American Urological Association annual meeting 2015 - Kristen's poster, "3D bladder phantom for evaluation of cystoscopic technologies" was awarded a top 10 abstract distinction while her presentation, "Scanning fiber technology for rapid volumetric optical coherence tomography cystoscopy," was awarded the best paper.