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.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Headshot portrait of Sonny Chan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sonny Chan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Kenneth Salisbury
Talk Title: A virtual surgical environment for rehearsal of tympanomastoidectomy
Event: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011

Headshot portrait of Oana Carja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Oana Carja - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Marc Feldman
Talk Title: An equilibrium for phenotypic variance in fluctuating environments due to epigenetics
Event: Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution

Headshot portrait of Jennifer Brady - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jennifer Brady - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Helen Blau
Talk Title: Insights into nuclear reprogramming via heterokaryon RNA sequencing
Event: 2011 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Jana Schaich Borg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jana Schaich Borg - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Psychiatry and Neurobiology
Faculty Advisors: Luis de Lecea and Bill Newsome
Talk Title: The classification and anatomy of moral judgments
Event: CFP 2011: Morality and the Cognitive Sciences

Headshot portrait of Katerina Blazek - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Katerina Blazek - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchir
Talk Title: BMI, body volume distribution, and sagittal plane gait parameters
Event: American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting 2011

Headshot portrait of Samuel Bandara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Samuel Bandara - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Tobias Meyer
Talk Title: Parameter estimation from live cell siRNA data predicts gene function from dynamics
Event: q-bio Conference 2012

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Optimum experimental design for nonlinear dynamic processes
Event: CSE11: SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

Awarded in 2008
Talk Title: Optimal experimental design for estimating the parameters of a potential switch in axon specification
Event: OPTEX: Workshop on Optimal Experimental Design in Engineering 2008
Headshot portrait of Supreet Bahga - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Supreet Bahga - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan Santiago
Talk Title: Interaction of ion-concentration shock waves in microfluidics
Event: 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Headshot portrait of Sergio Bacallado - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sergio Bacallado - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2012
Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Vijay Pande
Talk Title: Nonparametric Bayesian analysis of reversible processes with applications to molecular dynamics
Event: 2012 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Bayesian analysis of variable-order reversible Markov chains, with applications to molecular dynamics
Event: 7th Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes
Headshot portrait of Arjun Adhikari - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Arjun Adhikari - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Dunn
Talk Title: Mechanical strain decreases the rate of fibrin gel degradation by plasmin
Event: 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference

Awarded in 2010

Talk Title: Mechanical strain decreases the rate of Fibrin gel degradation by plasmin
Event: AIChE 2010 National Conference
Headshot portrait of Nicole Ackerman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Nicole Ackerman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Physics and Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Edward Graves
Talk Title: Cerenkov radiation as a new in vivo imaging modality
Event: American Physical Society April 2011 Meeting

Pages