Photo of 5 Travel Award recipients standing in the Clark Center courtyard.

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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Samuel Bandara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Tobias Meyer
Talk Title: Parameter estimation from live cell siRNA data predicts gene function from dynamics
Event: q-bio Conference 2012

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Optimum experimental design for nonlinear dynamic processes
Event: CSE11: SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

Awarded in 2008
Talk Title: Optimal experimental design for estimating the parameters of a potential switch in axon specification
Event: OPTEX: Workshop on Optimal Experimental Design in Engineering 2008

Supreet Bahga - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan Santiago
Talk Title: Interaction of ion-concentration shock waves in microfluidics
Event: 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Sergio Bacallado - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Vijay Pande
Talk Title: Nonparametric Bayesian analysis of reversible processes with applications to molecular dynamics
Event: 2012 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Bayesian analysis of variable-order reversible Markov chains, with applications to molecular dynamics
Event: 7th Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes

Arjun Adhikari - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Dunn
Talk Title: Mechanical strain decreases the rate of fibrin gel degradation by plasmin
Event: 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference

Awarded in 2010

Talk Title: Mechanical strain decreases the rate of Fibrin gel degradation by plasmin
Event: AIChE 2010 National Conference

Nicole Ackerman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Physics and Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Edward Graves
Talk Title: Cerenkov radiation as a new in vivo imaging modality
Event: American Physical Society April 2011 Meeting

Cynthia Wu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Gerald G. Fuller
Talk Title: Quantitative analysis of amyloid-integrated biofilms by interfacial rheology
Event: The XVI International Congress on Rheology

Adam Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Norbert Pelc
Talk Title: A comparison of dual kV energy integrating and energy discriminating photon counting detectors for dual energy x-ray imaging
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2012

Awarded in 2010

Talk Title: Synthetic CT: Generating Images of Arbitrary CT Protocols Using a Dual Energy Scan
Event: RSNA 2010

Jianbin Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Quake
Talk Title: Single cell and single molecule genomics
Event: CSH-ASIA High Throughput Biology, Genomics and Epigenomics conference

Jongmin Sung - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: James Spudich
Talk Title: Single molecule studies of recombinant human α- and β-cardiac myosin to elucidate molecular mechanism of familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies
Event: 56th Biophysical Society Meeting

Katherine Steele - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: How do muscle contributions to support and progression change during crouch gait?
Event: Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society 2012 - Katherine received the Dr. Kevin P. Granata Student Award for most outstanding oral presentation for her talk.

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Contributions to support and progression during crouch gait
Event: 2011 Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics Meeting

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