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: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Active origami in epithelial sheets: Information bottlenecks in ciliary flocking enable unfolding behavior in aneural animal Trichoplax adhaerens
Event: ASCB Cell Bio 2024
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Multiplexed and continuous monitoring of metabolites using High-Q metasurfaces and modular DNA aptamer probes
Event: 2024 MRS Fall Meeting
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Decoding antibody repertoires: large-scale profiling enabled by highly multiplexed metasurfaces and digitized acoustic bioprinting
Event: 2024 MRS Fall Meeting
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Data correction and imaging studies for PETCoil: A second-generation RF-penetrable brain TOF-PET insert for simultaneous PET/MRI
Event: IEEE NSS/MIC 2024
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: Predicting and interpreting functional non-coding regulatory variants with base-resolution deep learning models of chromatin accessibility
Event: American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 - Anusri was selected by the ASHG Awards Committee as a predoctoral semifinalist for the 2024 Trainee Research Excellence Awards
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Heike Daldrup-Link
Talk Title: Image-guided gliobastoma therapy with dual-enzyme activated theranostic nanoparticles
Event: RSNA 2024
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: Design and fabrication of conductive 3D printed carbon lattices via gel infusion and polymerization of acrylonitrile and subsequent pyrolysis
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting
Home Department: Biomedical Physics
Faculty Advisor: Michelle James
Talk Title: Imaging the Invisible: Whole-Body PET/MRI of ME/CFS Patients Indicates Alterations in TSPO-Positive Cells and Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Muscles and Brain
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2025 - Samantha received both a Student Travel Award and a WIMIN Scholar Award in recognition of her research contributions.
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Shifting the Spotlight: New PET Imaging Biomarkers for Detecting Myeloid Cells in Multiple Sclerosis
Event: World Molecular Imaging Congress 2024
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Larry Crowder
Talk Title: Co-creating intergenerational knowledge about Hawaiian moi reproductive cycles in a changing climate
Event: 2024 American Fisheries Society
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Tunable fibrillar collagen hydrogels strengthened by bioorthogonal covalent crosslinks
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting
