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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Stephanie Galanie - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Synthetic Biochemical Production of Medicinal Protoberberine Alkaloids in Yeast
Event: 249th American Chemical Society National Meeting - Stephanie was given the 2015 BIOT Peterson Award for best student oral presentation at the event.

Picha Shunhavanich - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Implementation of a piecewise-linear dynamic attenuator
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2018

Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Lossless Compression of Projection Data from Photon Counting Detectors
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2016

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Fluid-filled dynamic bowtie filter: a feasibility study
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2015

Marius Catalin Iordan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Fei-Fei Li
Talk Title: Category Boundaries and Typicality Warp the Neural Representation Space of Real-World Object Categories
Event: 2015 Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS)

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Category cohesion and distinctiveness in human visual cortex favor basic level representations
Event: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2014

Kun-Hsing Yu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor(s): Michael Snyder & Russ Altman
Talk Title: Omics AnalySIs System for PRecision Oncology (OASISPRO): A Web-based Omics Analysis Tool for Clinical Phenotype Prediction
Event: American Medical Informatics Association 2016 Joint Summits on Translational Science

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Predicting Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patient Outcomes through Gene Expression Data
Event: American Medical Informatics Association 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science

Aaron Goodman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2016
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Marcus Feldman
Talk Title: Stochastically varying environments promote evolution of modularity and hierarchy in simulated bacterial metabolic networks
Event: 2016 Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

Awarded in 2015

Talk Title: Evolution of Hierarchy in Bacterial Metabolic Networks
Event: 2015 Society for Molecular and Evolutionary Biology Annual Meeting

Livia Zarnescu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Mechanical biomarkers of oocyte maturation
Event: American Society for Reproductive Medicine 2014

Christine Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Comparative study of primary glioblastoma (GBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) cells from adult and pediatric brain cancer patients cultured in 3D PEG-based biomimetic hydrogel
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2014

Alexis Bailey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Margaret Fuller
Talk Title: Conserved regulation of the switch from mitosis to meiosis by Bgcn in the mammalian germline
Event: 2014 Cold Spring Harbor: Germ Cells

Yuan Yao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: Multivariate Gaussian model based Cramér-Rao lower bound evaluation of the in-depth PCXD
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2015

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: To explore the more realistic energy responses of the in-depth photon counting detectors
Event: 56th AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Efficacy of fixed filtration for rapid kVp-switching dual energy x-ray systems
Event: 2011 Joint AAPM/COMP Meeting

Hao Su - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
Event: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: 3D-Assisted Feature Synthesis for Novel Views of an Object
Event: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Estimating image depth from shape collections
Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

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