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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Jonathan Leong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Neurobiology
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Clandinin
Talk Title: An amplifying supramolecular chemistry for staining non-transgenic brain
Event: Bonhoeffer Retreat 2012

George Korir - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Punch card programmable microfluidics
Event: 65th Annual Meeting: American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics

Young Min Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Acquiring 3D indoor environments with variability and repetition
Event: Siggraph Asia 2012

Ho Jin Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Lei Xing
Talk Title: Improving the dose distribution and delivery efficiency in IMRT inverse planning by iteratively reweighted L1-norm
Event: 2012 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting

David Kastner - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Neurobiology
Faculty Advisor: Stephen Baccus
Talk Title: Optimal placement of dynamic range by coordinated populations of ganglion cells
Event: Society for Neuroscience 2012

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Mechanism and circuitry underlying retinal sensitization
Event: Cosyne 2011

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: The adaptive field and predictive object recognition in the retina
Event: Cosyne 2010

Jake Hughey - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: Across the spectrum of innate immune signaling: Heterogeneity and invariance
Event: Systems Biology of Human Disease 2012

Crystal Han - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: Rapid southern-blot-type assays using bidirectional isotachophoresis
Event: 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Rapid DNA hybridization using isotachophoresis
Event: 2011 microTAS

Yi Gu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Radiology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Characterization of inter-detector effects in a 3-D position-sensitive dual-CZT detector modules for PET
Event: IEEE Medical Imaging Conference 2012

Awarded in 2008
Talk Title: Study of a High Resolution, 3-D Positioning Cross-Strip Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detector for PET
Event: 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium

Max Greenfeld - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Herschlag
Talk Title: Exploration of a simplified RNA folding landscape
Event: Zing Nucleic Acids Conference 2012

Erika Geihe - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Paul Wender
Talk Title: siRNA complexation, delivery, and release by new biodegradable molecular transporters
Event: 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting

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