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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 Qicong Hu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Qicong Hu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: James Nelson
Talk Title: A Septin Diffusion Barrier at the Base of the Primary Cilium Maintains Ciliary Membrane Protein Distribution
Event: 2010 FASEB Summer Research Conferences: Biology of Cilia and Flagella

Headshot portrait of Gadryn Higgs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Gadryn Higgs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Microfabricated Calibration Tool for Direct Shear Stiffness Measurements with Applications in Cell Mechanics
Event: IEEE Sensors 2010

Headshot portrait of Colin Harvey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Colin Harvey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Chaitan Khosla
Talk Title: Production and mechanistic characterization of macrolide antibiotics
Event: NATO ISBMR 2010

Headshot portrait of Nahid Harjee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Nahid Harjee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Coaxial Tip Piezoresistive Scanning Probes with Sub-Nanometer Vertical Displacement Resolution
Event: IEEE Sensors 2010 Conference - Nahid's paper was in the top 10% of accepted contributions and was selected for a special issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal (July 2011 issue).

Headshot portrait of Imran Haque - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Imran Haque - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Vijay Pande
Talk Title: Lingos, GPUs, and Monitoring Vertex
Event: 2010 CUP XI

Headshot portrait of Kristin Granlund - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Kristin Granlund - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Radiology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Brian Hargreaves
Talk Title: High-resolution T2-weighted Breast Imaging Using FADE
Event: ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Erin Girard-Hughes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Erin Girard-Hughes - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Fahrig
Talk Title: Visualization of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions With Iodine Contrast-enhanced Cardiac DynaCT
Event: Heart Rhythm 2010: 31st Annual Scientific Sessions

Awarded in 2009
Talk Title: Visualization and enhancement patterns of radiofrequency ablation lesions with iodine contrast-enhanced cardiac C-arm CT
Event: 2009 SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging
Headshot portrait of Raphael Franzini - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Raphael Franzini - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Kool
Talk Title: Reductive quencher release probes enable the detection of RNAs in cells by templated chemistry
Event: 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Headshot portrait of Yunzhe Feng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yunzhe Feng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Methane Oxidation Over Catalytic Copper Oxides Nanowires
Event: 33rd International Symposium on Combustion

Headshot portrait of John Fathman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

John Fathman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
Faculty Advisor: Irv Weissman
Talk Title: Identification of the earliest Natural Killer cell committed progenitor in murine bone marrow
Event: 14th International Congress of Immunology

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