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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 John Welsh - Bio-X Travel Awardee

John Welsh - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jim Swartz
Talk Title: Influenza Vaccines Utilizing Hemagglutinin Constructs with Covalent Attachment to Virus-Like Particles
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Daniel Walker - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daniel Walker - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Biorobotics
Faculty Advisor: Kenneth Salisbury
Talk Title: User-controlled Variable Impedance Teleoperation
Event: International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010

Awarded in 2009
Talk Title: Variable Impedance Magnetorheological Clutch Actuator and Telerobotic Implementation
Event: 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Headshot portrait of Jonathan Vroom - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jonathan Vroom - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Clifford Wang
Talk Title: Using Inducible Gene Expression to Characterize Oncogene Cooperation in a Murine Pre-B Cell Line
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Yin Nah Teo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yin Nah Teo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Kool
Talk Title: Biomolecular labeling with combinatorial oligodeoxyfluorosides
Event: 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Headshot portrait of Rebecca Taylor - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rebecca Taylor - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Self-assembling single cells across microposts: first axial force measurements in immature cardiomyocytes
Event: Hilton Head 2010 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop

Headshot portrait of Amir Shamloo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Amir Shamloo - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: The Interplay Between Biomechanical and Biochemical Factors Regulates Lumen Formation and Navigation of Endothelial Cell Sprouts
Event: 2010 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference

Awarded in 2009

Talk Title: Matrix Rigidity Mediates Growth Factor Response During 3D Endothelial Cell Sprouting
Event: 2009 ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials
Headshot portrait of Hunter Shain - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Hunter Shain - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Cancer Biology
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Pollack
Talk Title: An integrative structural and functional approach to pancreatic cancer gene discovery
Event: The 21st Meeting of the European Association of Cancer Research - Hunter was the EACR-21 Presidential Session Award Winner for his talk.

Headshot portrait of Debanti Sengupta - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Debanti Sengupta - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Elastin-Based Biomaterials for Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Applications
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2010

Headshot portrait of Suchi Saria - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Suchi Saria - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Daphne Koller
Talk Title: Combining Structured and Free-text Data for Automatic Coding of Patient Outcomes
Event: AMIA 2010 - Suchi was a finalist for Best Student Paper.

Headshot portrait of Jayodita Sanghvi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jayodita Sanghvi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: A comprehensive computational model of Mycoplasma genitalium
Event: 2010 BMES Annual Meeting

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