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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Nandita Garud - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015
Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Pervasive Long Range Linkage Disequilibrium in D. melanogaster
Event: 2015 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)

Awarded in 2014
Talk Title: Robust detection of hard and soft selective sweeps using haplotype statistics
Event: 2014 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Recent and strong adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster is driven primarily by soft selective sweeps
Event: 2013 Drosophila Research Conference

Limor Freifeld - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Mark Horowitz and Thomas Clandinin
Talk Title: Lateral interactions tune the early stages of visual processing in Drosophila
Event: Cosyne 2013 - Limor received an additional travel award from the conference organizers.

Furqan Fazal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Steven Block
Talk Title: Real time observation of initiation from the T7A1 promoter
Event: 2013 Science Research Conference: Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Binding and translocation of termination factor rho studied at the single-molecule level
Event: Cellular Nano-Sciences Conference 2011 - Furqan's talk has since been published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.

Shannon Edd - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Andriacchi
Talk Title: Meniscectomized knees regain normal walking flexion range of motion with time past surgery
Event: 2013 American Society of Mechanical Engineering Summer Bioengineering Conference

Jang Hwan Choi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Fahrig
Talk Title: Image quality assurance study of a cone-beam C-arm CT with automatic exposure control for body applications
Event: 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Awarded in 2012
Talk Title: Fiducial marker-based motion compensation for the acquisition of 3D knee geometry under weight-bearing conditions using a C-arm CT scanner
Event: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine 54th Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2011

Talk Title: Analysis of vertical and horizontal circular C-arm trajectories
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2011

Stephen Fried - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2013

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boxer
Talk Title: Vibrational stark effects in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase point to large electric fields driving chemical catalysis
Event: 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society - Stephen co-chaired his session on enzymes.

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