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: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Engineering biomolecular actuators from calcium-responsive repeat proteins
Event: 2024 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Protease-driven self-assembly of elastin-like polypeptides
Event: American Chemical Society Spring 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Empowering global ocean insight: The planktoscope initiative for community-driven plankton research
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Stanley Qi and Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Autonomous T Cell activation-inducible mRNA switches for enhanced cell therapy
Event: Keystone Emerging Cellular Therapies 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Ten-Earth: An online cluster of low-cost microscopes to monitor plankton population dynamics in complex experimental aquatic communities
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Frozen flow: Mobility of diatoms in ice
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024
Home Department: Urology
Faculty Advisor: James Brooks
Talk Title: Exploiting Siglec-7/9 immune checkpoints in prostate cancer
Event: AAI Annual Meeting 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Siglec-7/9 are novel immune checkpoints for prostate cancer
Event: IMMUNOLOGY2023 - Ru received an AAI abstract trainee award.
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Alice Ting
Talk Title: Membrane editing and proximity labeling reveals a dynamic network regulating phosphatidic acid metabolism
Event: ASCB | EMBO Cell Bio 2023
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Tony Wyss-Coray and Carolyn Bertozzi
Talk Title: Cerebrovascular glycocalyx degeneration during aging and neurodegenerative disease promotes blood-brain barrier dysfunction and brain bleeds
Event: Cerebral Vascular Biology 2023 - Sophia won the David S. Miller Young Scientist Award, which is awarded to one young scientist at the conference who demonstrates promising research in the brain barriers research field.
Home Department: Radiology and Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: From polymers to power: Vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing of functional materials for energy, environment, and health applications
Event: ACS Spring 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: 3D printed flow-directing electrodes with nano-/micro-scale porosity for controlling transport and reactions
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
