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.
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Gerlinde Wernig
Talk Title: Multi-omics reveals cJun and SLC4A4 as key drivers of renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2024
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Decoding the spatial transcriptomic landscape of diabetic nephropathy
Event: American Society of Nephrology (ASN), ASN Kidney Week 2023
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisor: Nathan Reticker-Flynn
Talk Title: Opposing roles for type I interferon in metastasis and immunotherapy
Event: 2025 CSHL Meeting on Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Antagonism between tumors and lymphocytes drives coevolutionary processes throughout metastasis
Event: EMBL Symposium: Defining and Defeating Metastasis 2024
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisor: Tony Wyss-Coray
Talk Title: Investigating systems aging using the African turquoise killifish
Event: African Turquoise Killifish Conference 2024
Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Dahl
Talk Title: Enhancing ultrasound molecular imaging: RPCA-based filtering to differentiate tumor-bound and free microbubbles
Event: 2024 International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) - Hoda received the IEEE UFFC Outstanding Paper Award.
Home Department: Pathology
Faculty Advisor: Garry Nolan
Talk Title: Spatial dissection of the tumor microenvironment identifies unique tissue motifs predicting response to checkpoint-inhibitor therapy in advanced Merkel cell carcinoma
Event: German Society of Dermatological Oncology Annual Meeting (ADO) 2024
Home Department: Physics
Faculty Advisor: Mark Kasevich
Talk Title: Doppler-free three-photon spectroscopy on narrow-line optical transitions
Event: Frontiers of Matter-Wave Optics 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Stem cell dancing enhances 3D chondrogenesis via early-stage cytoskeleton and nuclear mechanosensing
Event: 2024 Gordon Research Conference- Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Predicting evolutionary success of wild yeast strains from short-term fitness data
Event: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dmitri Petrov
Talk Title: Ultra-precise mapping of natural selection in Drosophila with clade-scale population genomic data
Event: 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Eric Appel
Talk Title: Towards controlled drug delivery from hydrogels based on ultrasound induced molecular release
Event: 2024 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference, Multiscale Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology
