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.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Headshot portrait of Tyler Cork - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Tyler Cork - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Ennis
Talk Title: Evaluating the Effect of Post-Processing Steps When Analyzing Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Data
Event: Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH) 2025

Headshot portrait of Selena Chiu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Selena Chiu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Shaqfeh and Manu Prakash
Talk Title: A Swimming Rheometer: In Situ Measurement of Viscoelastic Fluid Properties Using a Tethered Swimmer
Event: AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Annual Meeting 2025

Headshot portrait of Xinyi Chen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Xinyi Chen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Stanley Qi
Talk Title: TRANSFER: Programmable Macromolecule Delivery via Engineered Trogocytosis
Event: Decoding Biological Systems Through Synthetic Biology 2025

Headshot portrait of Katie Cederberger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Katie Cederberger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Emmanuel Mignot
Talk Title: Proteomic and metabolomic perspectives in the study of PLMS/RLS
Event: World Sleep Congress 2025 - Katie received the Wayne Hening Young Investigator Award from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group.

Headshot portrait of Catharine Bowman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Catharine Bowman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Epidemiology & Population Health
Faculty Advisors: Stanley Rockson and Allison Kurian
Talk Title: Validation of the LymVAS Visual Analog Scale for LymphedemaSpecific Quality of Life in the Context of Therapeutic Intervention
Event: 12th International Lymphoedema Framework Conference

Headshot portrait of Sierra Bowden - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sierra Bowden - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Ami Bhatt
Talk Title: Enterococci Small RNA 84 Regulates Cell Surface Proteins and Adherence to Mucin in E. faecalis
Event: ASM Microbe 2025

Headshot portrait of Xiao Yang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Xiao Yang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Sergiu Pasca and Bianxiao Cui
Talk Title: Bioinspired electronics for brain-machine interface
Event: 2024 MRS Fall Meeting

Ibtihal Elfaki - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Ibtihal Elfaki - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Paul Khavari
Talk Title: Investigating genotype-estrogen interactions in breast cancer through a combined molecular and epidemiological approach
Event: American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024

Madison Driskill - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Madison Driskill - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: RNA product delivery using 3D printed microfluidic microarray patches (MAPs)
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Ian Coates - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Ian Coates - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: High-resolution stereolithography: Negative spaces enabled by control of fluid mechanics
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

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