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: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Chaitan Khosla
Talk Title: Activation of Extracellular TG2
Event: 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Transglutaminases in Human Disease Processes
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Gerald Fuller and Lynette Cegelski
Talk Title: Contribution of Extracellular Proteinaceous Fibers to the Adhesion of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli to Bladder Cells
Event: The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Diffusion-based Latent Shape Spaces
Event: Eurographics Symposium in Geometry Processing 2018
Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Stable Region Correspondences between Non-Isometric Shapes
Event: International Geometry Summit 2016
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Hunter Fraser
Talk Title: Dynamic genetic control of gene expression and DNA methylation in human aging
Event: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Gerald Fuller and Lynette Cegelski
Talk Title: Protein release from contact lenses monitored by interfacial viscoelasticity
Event: The XVIIth International Congress on Rheology
Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: Influence of tear-film component integration on contact lens wettability
Event: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2018
Home Department: ICME
Faculty Advisor: Alison Marsden
Talk Title: Virtual Evaluation Of Surgical Revascularization Techniques In Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Event: 2016 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference - Abhay was a finalist at the student paper competition, garnering the third place prize.
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Garry Gold
Talk Title: A Method to Quantitatively Compare Bone and Cartilage Changes Post Knee Injury: Initial Results
Event: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Imaging 24th Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Uche's work was awarded the Magna Cum Laude Merit Award, which was granted to the top 15% of submitted abstracts in the same category.
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Brian Hargreaves
Talk Title: Deep Learning Super-Resolution Enables Rapid Simultaneous Morphological and Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Event: 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2017
Talk Title: 5 Minute Comprehensive Knee MRI with 3D Double-Echo Steady-State (DESS)
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting - Akshay's talk received a Magna Cum Laude award, granted to the top 15% of submitted abstracts in the same category.
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Awarded in 2016
Talk Title: T2 Relaxometry of Short T2 Tissues with High SNR Efficiency
Event: 9th Annual International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging - Akshay won the Best Young Investigator award at this event.
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Self-Assembling Bio-inks for 3D printing of Cellular Constructs
Event: 2016 World Biomaterials Congress
