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: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Acceleration of Fully 3-D List-Mode OSEM with System Modeling for High-Resolution PET using Graphics Processing Units
Event: Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Meeting 2007
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Curtis Frank, Christopher Ta, and Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: A novel, biomimetic hydrogel construct to repair the cornea: Molecular design and biological response
Event: 2007 American Chemical Society National Meeting
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Spielman
Talk Title: Autocalibrated Phase-Contrast Imaging
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Joint Annual Meeting 2007
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Engineering Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Antagonists for Cancer Therapy
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting 2007
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Mark Cutkosky
Talk Title: Whole Body Adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot
Event: 2007 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics & Automation - The work Sangbae discussed, “StickyBot,” has been featured in TIME Magazine (Nov. 13 “Best Inventions 2006”) and in Wired Science (Jan 3, 2007 PBS).
Home Department: Medicine and Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Vijay Pande
Talk Title: Control of Vesicle Fusion by Changes in Membrane Properties: Prediction for Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Event: Biophysical Society 51st Annual Meeting
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Russ Altman
Talk Title: Knowledge-Based Course-Grained Modeling of RNA Structure
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting 2007
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Charles Taylor
Talk Title: Increased Anterior Abdominal Aortic Wall Motion: Possible Role in Aneurysm Pathogenesis and Design of Endovascular Devices
Event: International Congress XX on Endovascular Interventions 2007 - Craig received the 1st place award at this event.
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: James McClelland
Talk Title: How Language Affect Thought in a Connectionist Model
Event: Cognitive Science Society Meeting 2007
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisor: Vinod Menon
Talk Title: A Casual Role for the Right Fronto-Insular Cortex in Switching Between Executive Control and Default
Event: The Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2007
