Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Enteric pathogens in community source water, household stored water, and on hands in Tanzania
Event: 17th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Quantitative microbial risk assessment of enteric viruses found on hands, in stored water, and in community source water of Tanzanian households: Examining exposure routes of enteric viruses to children under five in developing communities
Event: 16th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology, WaterMicro 2011

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Engineering Aligned Microribbon-based Hydrogels to Guide 3D Muscle Tissue Regeneration
Event: 2016 World Biomaterials Congress

Awarded in 2015
Talk Title: Engineering Aligned Muscle Tissues in 3D using Microribbon-based Hydrogels
Event: BMES 2015 Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Matrix stiffness regulates PSC differentiation towards smooth muscle cell lineage
Event: 2014 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: The effects of PEG hydrogel crosslinking density and network homogeneity on protein diffusion
Event: 2013 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Indole Antibiotic Biosynthesis in Edible Plants: From Genomes to Bioactive Molecules
Event: International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Congress 2016

Awarded in 2013

Talk Title: Discovery of antibiotic biosynthesis pathways in dietary plants
Event: 2013 Gordon Research Seminar in Plant Metabolic Engineering - Andrew's interactions with peers and principal investigators at the event led to his being elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of the next Gordon Research Seminar.

Home Department: Chemical and Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Margaret Fuller
Talk Title: A cell type specific transcriptional repressor directs selective upregulation of terminal differentiation program
Event: 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conferenc

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Gene expression profiling in an adult stem cell lineage identified a putative transcriptional repressor critical for differentiation
Event: Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Stem Cell Biology 2013

Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: Biological design and genome optimization using whole-cell models
Event: 2013 Keystone Symposium - Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology: Designing Genomes and Pathways - Jonathan received an additional award, the Keystone/NSF scholarship, to give his talk.

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: A whole cell model of mycoplasma genitalium elucidates mechanisms of bacterial growth and replication
Event: Keystone Symposium - Complex Traits: Genomics and Computational Approaches

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Toward a whole cell model of mycoplasma genitalium
Event: Biophysical Society 55th Annual Meeting

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Michael Snyder
Talk Title: STORMSeq: An open, community-based pipeline for processing personal genomics data in the cloud
Event: 2013 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Assessing functional and clinical significance of regulatory variants
Event: ISMB/ECCB 2011

Home Department: Radiology and Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Brian Hargreaves and Garry Gold
Talk Title: Cubequant T1rho, QDESS T2, and cones sodium measurements are sufficiently reproducible in vivo cartilage studies
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2013

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Comparing in vivo head impact kinematics from American football with laboratory drop and linear impactor head impact kinematics
Event: 2013 American Society of Mechanical Engineering Summer Bioengineering Conference

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sam Gambhir
Talk Title: Performance comparison of microbial source tracking assays in Bangladesh and Kenya
Event: 2014 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science meets Policy

Awarded in 2013

Talk Title: Validation and use of microbial source tracking methods for detecting fecal contamination in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Event: 17th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology

Home Department: Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Leonidas Guibas
Talk Title: Building Markov state models with solvent dynamics
Event: 11th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference - Chen's talk has since been published by BMC Bioinformatics.

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Kinetically-aware conformational distances in molecular dynamics
Event: 23rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry