Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Russ Altman
Talk Title: Mining the pharmacogenics literature
Event: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2011

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Improving the Prediction of Pharmacogenes Using Text-Derived Gene-Drug Relationships
Event: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010 - The manuscript of Yael's talk was published in the conference proceedings and indexed by MEDLINE. She was also asked to co-chair a workshop the following year, which she did at the 2011 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in Hawaii.

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Krishna Shenoy
Talk Title: Combining wireless neural recording and video capture for the analysis of natural gait
Event: IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2011

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Julie Baker
Talk Title: Functional genomic investigation of eutherian trophoblast evolution
Event: International Federation of Placenta Associations 2011

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Inferring mobile trajectories using a network of binary proximity sensors
Event: 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisors: Serafim Batzoglou and Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Automating signaling and cell cycle analysis in drug discovery: Determining the effect of chemotherapeutics on leukemic cells
Event: CYTO 2011: XXVI Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry - Tiffany received the President’s Award for Excellence, an honor bestowed only once annually, for her talk.

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Classifying the effect of cancer drugs in leukemic cells
Event: XXV Congress of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Kenneth Salisbury
Talk Title: A virtual surgical environment for rehearsal of tympanomastoidectomy
Event: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Marc Feldman
Talk Title: An equilibrium for phenotypic variance in fluctuating environments due to epigenetics
Event: Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Insights into nuclear reprogramming via heterokaryon RNA sequencing
Event: 2011 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting

Home Department: Psychiatry and Neurobiology
Faculty Advisors: Luis de Lecea and Bill Newsome
Talk Title: The classification and anatomy of moral judgments
Event: CFP 2011: Morality and the Cognitive Sciences

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchir
Talk Title: BMI, body volume distribution, and sagittal plane gait parameters
Event: American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting 2011