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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Headshot portrait of Shoshana Williams - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Shoshana Williams - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Development of novel polyacrylamide copolymers as next-generation broad-spectrum antibiotics
Event: ACS Spring 2024

Headshot portrait of Emily Meany - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Emily Meany - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Engineering injectable polymer-nanoparticle hydrogels to recruit, retain, and activate key immune cells to modulate and improve the humoral and cellular response to mRNA vaccines
Event: 2024 Immunoengineering Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Headshot portrait of Divya Rajasekharan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Divya Rajasekharan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leanne Williams and Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Personalizing non-invasive brain stimulation treatments using image-based anatomical and computational models
Event: World Congress on Computational Mechanics 2024

Headshot portrait of Julia Schaepe - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Julia Schaepe - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: William Greenleaf
Talk Title: Single-molecule chromatin configurations link transcription factor binding to expression in human cells
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio

Headshot portrait of Benjamin Doughty - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Benjamin Doughty - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: William Greenleaf
Talk Title: Quantitative models of transcription factor occupancy and gene expression from millions of single-molecule measurements
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio

Headshot of Lucy Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Lucy Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Single-molecule dynamics of confined branched polymers
Event: American Physical Society March Meeting 2024

Headshot of Cecelia Andrews - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Cecelia Andrews - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Lacramioara Bintu
Talk Title: Dynamics and mechanisms of pulse-generating transcriptional effector domains
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio

Headshot portrait of Abby Thurm - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Abby Thurm - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biophysics and MSTP
Faculty Advisor: Lacramioara Bintu
Talk Title: High-throughput discovery of regulatory domains in RNA-binding proteins
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio

Headshot portrait of Eleanor Quirk - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Eleanor Quirk - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Engineering photo-responsive recyclability into polymer networks for sustainable 3D printing
Event: American Physical Society March Meeting 2024

Headshot portrait of Cyrus Knudsen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Cyrus Knudsen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: Consistent, scalable and globally optimal estimation of kinetic and regulatory parameters using convex optimization for biochemical reaction networks
Event: 2024 Winter Q-Bio

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