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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Jay Fitzgerald - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Chaitan Khosla
Talk Title: Probing the biosynthesis of the type II polyketide A-74528 through heterologous pathway reconstruction
Event: 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting

Josh Ferreira - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Cliff Wang
Talk Title: Synthetic optimization of the MAPK and P13K pathways for cell proliferation and survival
Event: 6th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Development of a Constitutive Promoter Library for Optimization of Cell Lines
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010

Jessica Faruque - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sandy Napel
Talk Title: A statistical model for predicting sample size for radiologists’ perception of similarity in liver lesions
Event: Radiological Society of North America Annual Conference 2012

Rebecca DiMarco - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Designing novel preclinical drug screening platforms using protein-engineered materials
Event: 2012 Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting

Andrew Chang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Christina Smolke
Talk Title: High-throughput, quantitative cell-based screen for efficient tailoring of RNA device activity
Event: 244th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Lili Cai - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Flame synthesis of 1-D complex metal oxide nanomaterials
Event: 34th International Symposium on Combustion

Gabriel Billings - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014
Home Department: Physics
Faculty Advisor: KC Huang
Talk Title: De novo morphogenesis in L-forms via geometric control of cell growth
Event: Bacterial Cell Surfaces Gordon Conference 2014

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: De novo synthesis of the cell wall in E. coli: Reversion of L-forms
Event: American Society of Microbiology General Meeting 2012 - Gabriel's presentation was selected as a Young Investigator talk.

Chun Hua Zheng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Biomechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc Levenston
Talk Title: Fact vs. artifact: Avoiding erroneous estimates of glycosaminoglycan content in tissue-engineered constructs
Event: 2013 Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: The effect of TGF-beta and BMP pathway inhibition on chondrocyte mechanotransduction
Event: Orthopaedic Research Society 2012

Bo Zhang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2014
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Hongjie Dai
Talk Title: A plasmonic chip for biomarker discovery and diagnosis of Type-1 diabetes
Event: 2014 Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Research Seminar

Awarded in 2013

Talk Title: Metal enhanced fluorescence: Boosting sensitivity for high-throughput proteomic immunoassay
Event: 2013 International Conference on Nanoscience & Technology

Jason Yeatman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Brian Wandell
Talk Title: Quantitative biological measurements of white matter development
Event: 2013 Annual Meeting: Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Dual process account of the joint development of white matter and reading skills
Event: Society for the Neurobiology of Language 2012

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Identifying biological signatures of occipital white matter pathways with novel quantitative magnetic resonance imaging methods
Event: Society for Neuroscience 2011

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