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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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Headshot portrait of Jayodita Sanghvi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jayodita Sanghvi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: A comprehensive computational model of Mycoplasma genitalium
Event: 2010 BMES Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Kacey Sachen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Kacey Sachen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Medicine and Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Ron Levy
Talk Title: Evidence for antigen recognition in the pathogenesis of follicular lymphoma
Event: 14th International Congress of Immunology

Headshot portrait of Katherine Rostkowski - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Katherine Rostkowski - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011
Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Bioplastic production from biogas methane: Laboratory-scale operation and life cycle assessment
Event: ISIE 2011 Conference: Science, Systems, and Sustainability

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Bioplastic production from biogas methane: Laboratory-scale operation and life cycle assessment
Event: International Symposium on Biopolymers 2010

Headshot portrait of Andreas Rauschecker - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Andreas Rauschecker - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Brian Wandell
Talk Title: Abstracting visual information: Reading dynamic word forms
Event: Society for Neuroscience 2010

Headshot portrait of Elizabeth Pringle - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Elizabeth Pringle - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Deborah Gordon
Talk Title: Effects of a geographic mosaic of ant aggressiveness on herbivore communities
Event: International Union for the Study of Social Insects - XVI Congress

Headshot portrait of Allison Pieja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Allison Pieja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Production of high levels of PHB by methanotrophic bacteria in a non-sterile, cyclically stressed environment
Event: International Symposium on Biological Polyesters 2010

Headshot portrait of Amy Pickering - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Amy Pickering - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: E-IPER
Faculty Advisor: Jenna Davis
Talk Title: Effect of daily activities on hand fecal contamination among Tanzanian mothers: Implications for measuring handwashing behavior
Event: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2010

Headshot portrait of Lori Phillips - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Lori Phillips - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Olivia Martinez
Talk Title: Natural killer cells target neural stem/progenitor cells through NKG2D
Event: The XXIV International Congress of the Transplantation Society

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Investigating Innate and Adaptive Immune Recognition of Neural Progenitor Cell Allografts
Event: XXIII International Congress of The Transplantation Society
Headshot portrait of Maks Ovsjanikovs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Maks Ovsjanikovs - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2010

Home Department: Computational & Mathematical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: One Point Isometric Matching with the Heat Kernel
Event: Symposium on Geometry Processing 2010

Headshot portrait of Kenneth Wes Overton - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Kenneth Wes Overton - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Clifford Wang
Talk Title: Dose-dependent p21(Cip1/Waf1) cell cycle regulation
Event: 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Development of a Recombinase-Based Genetic Oscillator
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

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