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: Aeronautics and Astronautics
Faculty Advisor: Margot Gerritson
Talk Title: Efficient flight of pterosaurs—an unsteady aerodynamic approach
Event: 47th AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: James McClelland
Talk Title: When Should We Expect Indirect Effects in Human Contingency Learning?
Event: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2009 - Daniel received an additional student travel award sponsored by the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation prior to his talk.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Charles Taylor
Talk Title: Verification of a finite element method for solving one-dimensional equations of blood flow incorporating a viscoelastic wall model
Event: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Beth Pruitt
Talk Title: Peizoresistive Cantilever-Based Force-Clamp System for the Study of Mechanotransduction in C. elegans
Event: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Wing Wong
Talk Title: Statistical analysis of gene regulation from high-throughput genomic data
Event: Intl Workshop on Probability Theory, Statistics, and Their Applications to Biology 2009
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Scott Delp
Talk Title: Orderly recruitment of motor units by optical stimulation in transgenic mice
Event: American Society of Biomechanics 2009 - Michael received the Journal of Biomechanics award for the most innovative research for his talk.
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boxer
Talk Title: DNA-mediated Fusion of Lipid Vesicles
Event: American Chemical Society: 237th National Meeting in Salt Lake City
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Craig Miller and Ellen Kuhl
Talk Title: Transient Tensing of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet
Event: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Society of the Heart Valve Disease
Home Department: Biology and Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Block
Talk Title: Direct Observation of Individual Kinesin Head Motions
Event: Biophysical Society Meeting 2009
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Karl Deisseroth
Talk Title: Optical Deconstruction of Parkinsonian Neural Circuitry
Event: Gordon Research on Neural Circuits & Plasticity 2009
