Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: John Boothroyd
Talk Title: Mapping of toxoplasma loci involved in the strain-specific modulation of innate immune responses
Event: Woodshole Immunoparasitology Conference 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Charles Taylor
Talk Title: Computational modeling of in vivo hemodynamic forces acting on aortic endografts
Event: ICON 2011: International Congress for Endovascular Specialists

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Single cell metabolomics in circulating tumor cells
Event: 2014 Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Quantitative, dynamic and long term in vivo imaging of intravascular circulating tumor cells in awake animals, with a novel miniature fluorescence microscope
Event: European Molecular Imaging Meeting 2011

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Understanding post-supply contamination of drinking water in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Event: 16th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Peter Pinsky
Talk Title: Applying micropolar elasticity to connective tissues
Event: 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Depth Dependent In-plane Shear Properties of the Corneal Stroma
Event: ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Characterization of RF-transparent electro-optically coupled PET block detectors for simultaneous PET/MR imaging
Event: 2011 Society of Nuclear Medicine

Awarded in 2007
Talk Title: Evaluation of a new readout ASIC for a 1 mm resolution PET system based upon position sensitive avalanche photodiodes
Event: Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting 2007

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Creating molecular recognition from scratch: Stepwise engineering of knottin peptides to bind tumor marker CA IX
Event: American Chemical Society 241st National Meeting

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Engineering High Affinity Knottin Peptides Targeting Tumor Marker CAIX for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Event: Protein Society 24th Annual Symposium - Sarah's talk was selected as a Young Investigator Talk which was an honor since only 16 talks over the 5 days were selected from 510 abstract submissions. She also received a Graduate Student Poster Award from the poster that accompanied the talk.

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Tactile cueing as a gravitational substitute for spatial navigation during parabolic flight
Event: 8th Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Karl Deisseroth
Talk Title: An analysis of new and existing opsins for scientific application
Event: European Biophysical Conference 2011 - The paper that Joanna wrote in relation to her talk was subsequently submitted to Nature Methods.

Home Department: Statistics
Faculty Advisor: Wing Wong
Talk Title: Forecasting customer purchase rates incorporating temporal variation
Event: 2011 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference