Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Protein engineered biomaterials for bioactive coatings
Event: 3rd International Conference: Strategies in Tissue Engineering

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Drew Endy
Talk Title: Engineered transmission of DNA messages among bacteria
Event: DNA18: The 18th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: David Paik
Talk Title: Mathematical modeling of the interactions between cellular programs in response to oncogene inactivation
Event: 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering - Chinyere's research won second prize in the student paper competition.

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Soft maps between surfaces
Event: Symposium on Geometry Processing 2012

Awarded in 2011

Talk Title: An optimization approach to improving collections of shape maps
Event: Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2011

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Rajat Rohatgi
Talk Title: Regulation of the Hedgehog pathway by oxysterols
Event: 2012 Hedgehog Signaling Meeting - Sigrid's work was later published in Nature Chemical Biology.

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Hetero-assembling protein-engineered physical hydrogels to improve injectable therapy
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society 2012 Annual Meeting

Home Department: Electrical Engineering and Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Lei Xing
Talk Title: Single-scan scatter correction in cone beam CT using stationary boundary blockers and compressed sensing
Event: AAPM Meetings 2012 - American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: A Novel Device for Highly Efficient Extraction of Nucleic Acids From 100 Microliter Whole Blood Samples
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting and American Electrophoresis Society Joint Meeting 2012

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: On-chip integration of lysis and nucleic acid preparation of malaria-infected blood
Event: μTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems) 2011

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Engineered Hepatocyte Growth Factor Mutants: New Tools for Tissue Regeneration and Vascularization
Event: 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Engineering cystine knot peptides as a new class of molecular imaging agents
Event: 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting