Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Electronic skin for biomedical applications
Event: 1st Annual Winterschool on Bioelectronics

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Spakowitz
Talk Title: Physical modeling of chromosome segregation in E. coli reveals impact of force and DNA relaxation
Event: 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Family of enhanced photoacoustic imaging agents for high sensitivity and multiplexing studies in living mice
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2010

Awarded in 2009

Talk Title: Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging using Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Living Mice
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008 - Adam received the Young Investigator Award for his work.

Home Department: Developmental Biology
Faculty Advisor: Seung Kim
Talk Title: Suppression of insulin production and secretion by the decretin hormone Limostatin
Event: 55th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchi
Talk Title: Combining Biological and Mechanical Measures to Predict the Risk for Progression of Osteoarthritis
Event: 2014 Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Knee flexion moment during walking influences medical compartment cartilage thickness in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Event: 2013 Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics

Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Jeff Axelrod
Talk Title: Prickle/Spiny-legs isoforms control the polarity of the apical microtubule network in PCP
Event: Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2014

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Carlos Bustamante
Talk Title: Imputation-based Assessment of Next Generation Rare Exome Variant Arrays
Event: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2014 – Alicia also received the PSB 2014 travel award.

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Mosquitoes Meet Microfluidics - High-throughput Microfluidic Tools to Study Field Ecology of Insect-Borne Infectious Diseases
Event: American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 62nd Annual Meeting

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Serafim Batzoglou
Talk Title: Integrating Gene Expression and Sequence Data with Existing Biological Knowledge to Model Context-specific Gene Regulation
Event: 2013 RECOMB/ISCB conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Reconstruction of genealogical relationships with applications to Phase III of HapMap
Event: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2011

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: Production of Plant Alkaloids in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting 2013