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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.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Headshot portrait of Carla Huerta-Lopez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Carla Huerta-Lopez - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Engineering a fallopian tube model for mechanistic studies of hydrosalpinx
Event: GRS/GRC Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 2025

Awarded in 2024

Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated chemoresistance In patient-derived pancreatic cancer organoids
Event: TERMIS World Conference 2024

Headshot portrait of Jennifer Lissemore - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jennifer Lissemore - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Nolan Williams
Talk Title: Augmenting established therapies: OCD and the promise of combined TMS-CBT
Event: Association for Psychological Science 2024

Headshot portrait of Narelli de Paiva Narciso - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Narelli de Paiva Narciso - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Submucosal hydrogel for spring-mediated intestinal lengthening
Event: The 12th World Biomaterials Congress, WBC 2024

Headshot portrait of Meghan Shea - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Meghan Shea - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: E-IPER
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding differentiates between micro-habitats within the rocky intertidal
Event: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024

Headshot portrait of Daniel Kunin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daniel Kunin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Surya Ganguli and Daniel Yamins
Talk Title: Stochastic collapse: How gradient noise attracts SGD dynamics towards simpler subnetworks
Event: Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2024

Headshot portrait of Mira Moufarrej - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Mira Moufarrej - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
Talk Title: Integrated 3D mapping and transcriptomic characterization of uterine arterial transformation in human placental development
Event: 2024 North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO)

Headshot portrait of Hung Pang Lee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Hung Pang Lee - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Bioprinting of microribbon-shape microgels with tunable stiffness for stem cell differentiation and hierarchical patterning
Event: 8th Bioengineering and Translational Medicine (BTM) Conference, AIChE

Headshot portrait of Yujie Tao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yujie Tao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: I feel you: Impact of shared body sensations on social interactions in virtual reality
Event: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2024

Headshot portrait of James Zwierzynski - Bio-X Travel Awardee

James Zwierzynski - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Kristy Red-Horse
Talk Title: Chemokine Signaling Connects Mother and Fetus During Pregnancy
Event: Angiogenesis Gordon Research Seminar 2025

Awarded in 2024

Talk Title: Chemokine regulation of placental vascular development
Event: Vascular Biology 2024

Headshot portrait of Daiyao Zhang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daiyao Zhang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer organoids
Event: 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

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