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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 Ben Almquist - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Ben Almquist - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Nicholas Melosh
Talk Title: Lateral Fusion of Lipid Membranes to Nanoscale Functionalized Posts
Event: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2010 - Ben received a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for his talk.

Awarded in 2007

Talk Title: Interaction Forces and Mechanics of Cellular Membranes using Novel Atomic Force Microscopy Probes
Event: 2007 American Physical Society March Meeting
Headshot portrait of Murat Aksoy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Murat Aksoy - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010
Home Department: Electrical Engineering and Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Roland Bammer
Talk Title: Hybrid Prospective & Retrospective Head Motion Correction System to Mitigate Cross-Calibration Errors
Event: 2010 ISMRM & ESMRMB Joint Meeting

Awarded in 2009
Talk Title: b-Matrix Correction Applied to High Resolution DTI
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17th Scientific Meeting and Exposition 2009
Headshot portrait of Isoken Airen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Isoken Airen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jim Swartz
Talk Title: Functional genomic analysis of Escherichia coli using sequential cell-free protein synthesis
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Headshot portrait of Oscar Abilez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Oscar Abilez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Zarins
Talk Title: Channelrhodopsin-2 Enables Optogenetic Control Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes
Event: ISACB 12th Biennial Meeting

Headshot portrait of Michael Zabala - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Michael Zabala - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchi
Talk Title: Differences in external knee adduction moment between ACL reconstructed and contralateral knees
Event: 2011 American Society of Biomechanics Conference

Headshot portrait of William Yang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

William Yang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jim Swartz
Talk Title: Binding of a cationic protein to the cell surface is insufficient for cellular uptake and bioactivity: Arginine-rich sequences are necessary
Event: 241st American Chemical Society Meeting

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: A Rapid and Quantitative Assay for DNA Binding
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2010 Annual Meeting
Headshot portrait of Kevan Yamahara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Kevan Yamahara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Out of the lab and into the ocean: Remote detection of fecal indicators using in situ real-time PCR
Event: United States Environmental Protection Agency - BEACHES Conference 2011

Headshot portrait of Joshua Weinstein - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Joshua Weinstein - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Quake
Talk Title: From zebrafish to humans: What snapshots of antibody repertoires can tell us about immune dynamics
Event: 2011 Bioforum & Biology Seminar at Technion Institute

Headshot portrait of Joo Yong Sim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Joo Yong Sim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Balancing forces in cell pairs
Event: 2014 World Congress of Biomechanics

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Parametric analysis of strain effects on adhesions junctions
Event: ASME: Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference 2011
Headshot portrait of Lauren Shluzas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Lauren Shluzas - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Larry Leifer
Talk Title: The iterative nature of medical device design
Event: G-SCOP 1st Workshop to Foster Publications in Engineering Design

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