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.
Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Telomere shortening as a hallmark of lethal dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: 2017 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Telomere Conference
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Albert Koong
Talk Title: IRE1-XBP1 Signaling Facilitates Anti-tumor Effects by Inducing Immunogenic Cell Death in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
Event: The 15th International Tumor Microenvironment Workshop
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Edward Graves
Talk Title: CD8+ T cells Prevent Circulating Tumor Cell Recruitment After Radiation
Event: The 15th International Tumor Microenvironment Workshop
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: School of Medicine
Faculty Advisors: Jennifer McNab and Casey Halpern
Talk Title: Segmentation of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Using High-Resolution Diffusion Tractography
Event: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Enhanced Stress Relaxation In Hydrogels Promotes Cartilage Matrix Formation By Chondrocytes
Event: ORS (Orthopaedic Research Society) 2017 Annual Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: James R. Swartz
Talk Title: Developing a Modular Virus-like Particle Vaccine Platform for Viral Diseases
Event: 7th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Hunter Fraser
Talk Title: Spatially varying allele specific expression in Drosophila hybrids
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Home Department: Genetics / Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: DeepNuc: a deep learning model that accurately predicts genome-wide nucleosome positioning from ATAC-seq
Event: Genome Informatics 2016
