Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Effects of Hydrogel Stiffness and Biochemical Compositions on Stem Cell-Chondrocyte Interactions in vivo
Event: TERMIS World Congress 2015

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Modulating chondrogenesis of adipose-derived stromal cells in combinatorial extracellular matrix-containing hydrogels with independently tunable niche properties
Event: Combined Orthopedic Research Society Conference 2013

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: W James Nelson
Talk Title: Force regulation of interactions between the E-cadherin-catenin complex and actin filaments
Event: 2013 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: An MLEM Method for Simultaneous Activity and Attenuation Reconstruction for PET Using True and Scattered Coincidences
Event: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Towards a Biocompatible Conductive Nanotube Film: An In-Depth Investigation Into Cellular Biocompatibility
Event: AiChE 2013 Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Investigating cell contractile forces on biocompatible conductive films
Event: 2012 Spring MRS Meeting - Work related to Deborah's talk was later published in ACS Nano and highlighted in an article in Nanotechweb.

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: MRI measurements in the presence of a RF-penetrable PET insert for simultaneous PET/MRI
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2015

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: RF-Transmissive PET Detector Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR
Event: 2014 IEEE MIC Seattle

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Studies of Electromagnetic Interference of PET Detector Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI
Event: 2013 IEEE Molecular Imaging Conference (MIC)

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Stem cells catalyze cartilage formation by neonatal articular chondrocytes
Event: 8th Combined Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Societies - Janice received a young investigator award, “Best Oral Presentation in Biology,” for her talk.

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Engineering cell-cell interactions in 3D for cartilage tissue engineering
Event: Gordon Research Conference - Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Outside-In vs. Inside-Out: Contrasting Patterns of Compressive Deformation in Cartilage and Meniscus
Event: 2010 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Nanofunctionalized Organic Field-Effect Transistors for Selective, In Situ Biodetection
Event: 2013 AiCHE National Fall Meeting - Mallory was preselected as one of ten graduate students from a pool of a record number of applicants to participate in a special symposium aimed at recognizing students whose research achievements in bionanotechnology demonstrate a high level of excellence.

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Non-covalent incorporation of specific binding sites onto organic transistors for selective biosensing applications
Event: Materials Research Society Spring Conference 2012

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: Electrokinetic instability of isotachophoresis shocks
Event: American Physical Socienty, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Rapid and accurate profiling of trace amounts of microRNA with no amplification
Event: 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - The research that Giancarlo presented was later published in Analytical Chemistry

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Sample dispersion in isotachophoresis
Event: Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar/Gordon Research Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics 2011

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Steve Quake
Talk Title: Dancing Droplets
Event: APS DFD (Division of Fluid Dynamics) 2013 - Nate also participated in the video competition; his video won a Best Video Award and was featured in the March 2014 general American Physical Society meeting and in the online gallery of fluids videos.

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisors: Dominik Fleishman and Sandy Napel
Talk Title: Lower Extremity CT Angiography (CTA)
Event: Radiological Society of North America 92nd Meeting