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

Yu Zheng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiome
Event: Molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics - Yu was selected as a finalist for the Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science.

Weilai Yu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Revealing the dynamics of solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) at li metal anode
Event: AICHE Annual Meeting 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Myungheon Chin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Deep learning-based limited angle tomography for a 1-millimeter resolution dual-panel clinical PET system
Event: 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference - Myungheon received an IEEE MIC trainee grant for the event.

Arjun Desai - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Akshay Chaudhari and Christopher Ré
Talk Title: Encoding physics-driven data priors for robust self-supervised MRI reconstruction
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2023 - Arjun’s abstract received third place at the Reproducibility Research Study Group session.

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: VORTEX: Physics-driven data augmentations using consistency training for robust accelerated MRI reconstruction
Event: 2022 Medical Imaging with Deep Learning - Arjun received the Best Paper Award for the conference.

Yixuan (Edward) Gao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Eric Kool
Talk Title: Discovery of small molecule activators of single-strand selective monofunctional uracil DNA glycosylase
Event: ACS National Meeting Fall 2022

Rachel Huang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Solving a metallic issue with organic (macro)molecules
Event: Fall ACS Conference 2022 - Rachel received the honor of Future Faculty of ACS PMSE.

Supraja Varadarajan - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Neurobiology
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Huberman
Talk Title: Role of post-synaptic cells in retinal axon regeneration
Event: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Zhiru Liu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Good
Talk Title: Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiome
Event: 2022 APS March Meeting - Zhiru's talk was awarded the APS Shirley Chan Student Travel Award.

Wei Wei - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Z. Long
Talk Title: Organism-wide cell type-specific secretome mapping of exercise training in mice
Event: 2023 Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling (CSHL)

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: An organism-wide atlas of tissue crosstalk in physical activity
Event: 2022 ASBMB Annual Meeting

Camilo Espinosa Bernal - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Nima Aghaeepour
Talk Title: Multiomics modeling of preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries
Event: 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation - Camilo received an Underrepresented Minority Registration Award by the SRI board.

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