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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 Anderson Nnewihe - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Anderson Nnewihe - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering and Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Brian Hargreaves
Talk Title: 16-Channel Custom-Fitted Bilateral Breast Coil for Parallel Imaging in Two Directions
Event: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Tom Niedringhaus - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Tom Niedringhaus - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Annelise Barron
Talk Title: Pressure-Induced Flow and Resultant Orientation of Polyacrylamide Chains Impacts Peak Width in DNA Sequencing Separations in Microchannel Electrophoresis
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Denitsa Milanova - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Denitsa Milanova - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Annelise Barron
Talk Title: Nanoscale Electrokinetic Transport of DNA in Pressure-Driven Flow
Event: ITP 2010, 17th International Symposium on Capillary Electroseparation Techniques

Headshot portrait of Shafigh Mehraeen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Shafigh Mehraeen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Spakowitz
Talk Title: Theoretical Modeling of the Weaving of Clathrin Into Nanoscale Baskets
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Cory McLean - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Cory McLean - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Gill Bejerano
Talk Title: Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits
Event: 2010 Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes

Headshot portrait of Bert Lui - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Bert Lui - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: An in vitro platform to evolve proteins directly for improved biological function
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Adam Leeper - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Adam Leeper - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Kenneth Salisbury
Talk Title: Using Near-Field Stereo Vision for Robotic Grasping in Cluttered Environments
Event: International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

Headshot portrait of Matt Kaufman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Matt Kaufman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Neuroscience
Faculty Advisor: Krishna Shenoy
Talk Title: Lack of evidence for inhibitory gating in monkey M1
Event: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Rinki Kapoor - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Rinki Kapoor - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Annelise Barron
Talk Title: Antimicrobial Peptoids impair Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms
Event: 3rd Annual Symposium on Host Defence Peptides

Headshot portrait of Douglas Jones - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Douglas Jones - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Titles: Epitope expansion evolution for the affinity maturation of ligand-receptor interactions and Transforming the NK1 fragment of Hepatocyte Growth Factor from a Met receptor agonist into a Met antagonist by inhibiting ligand-induced dimerization
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

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