Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Fahrig
Talk Title: Instrument design to measure the optical properties of reflectance and transmittance
Event: 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Awarded in 2012
Talk Titles: Resonant frequency of rotating anode x-ray tubes
Event: American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting 2012

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan G. Santiago
Talk Title: A high fidelity, validated model of temperature effects for electrophoresis
Event: 29th International Symposium on MicroScale Bioseparations

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Gene-centric discovery of a novel coumarin biosynthetic pathway in higher plants
Event: 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting (VSS)

Awarded in 2013
Talk Title: Transcriptomics- and metabolomics-driven discovery of a novel indolic secondary metabolite pathway in Arabidopsis
Event: 2013 Gordon Research Seminar in Plant Metabolic Engineering

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Reducing minimum flash ignition energy of Al microparticles by addition of WO3 nanoparticles
Event: The 8th US National Combustion Meeting

Awarded in 2011
Talk Title: Flash ignition of Al nanoparticles and oxidation mechanism
Event: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2011

Awarded in 2010
Talk Title: Synthesis and ignition of energetic CuO/AI core/shell nanowires
Event: 33rd International Symposium on Combustion

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Marc E. Levenston
Talk Title: Extracellular matrix turnover in cartilage and meniscus tissues in response to adipokines
Event: 2013 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society - James's talk was particularly relevant in context of the current obesity epidemic; as a result, the ORS contacted him prior to the meeting to prepare a press release.

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