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: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: James Spudich
Talk Title: Role of the super-relaxed state of ß-cardiac myosin in the pathomechanism of dilated cardiomyopathy
Event: AHA Scientific Sessions 2023
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Dionne
Talk Title: Integrating electrokinetics with AI-assisted Raman spectroscopy for bacterial detection in wastewater
Event: PRiME (246th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS))
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: Combining surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy and electrokinetics for bacterial monitoring in wastewater
Event: 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Curved crease origami at cellular scales enables hyper-extensibility of Lacrymaria olor
Event: Cell Bio 2023 - An ASCB | EMBO Meeting
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sean Follmer
Talk Title: Improving the accessibility of screen-shared presentations by enabling concurrent exploration
Event: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Simulation evaluation of a liquid football helmet under concussive and subconcussive impact loading
Event: 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Spakowitz and Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Linking molecular structure to macroscopic rheology of dynamically associating polymer networks
Event: American Physical Society's March 2023 Meeting - Pamela was invited as a Padden Award finalist and spoke in the Padden Award session, which honors graduate excellence in polymer research. Pamela won the Padden Award out of 11 finalists.
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: One-step bioprinting of endothelialized, self-supporting arterial and venous networks
Event: International Conference on Biofabrication
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: 3D bioprinting of perfusable networks using an interfacial diffusant strategy
Event: International Conference on Biofabrication 2023 - Betty receive a second-place Oral Presentation Award for her talk.
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Danielle Mai
Talk Title: Gelation dynamics and reversibility of photocrosslinkable polymer nanocomposite hydrogels
Event: American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2023 - Michael was selected as one of the 2023 ACS Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering Future Faculty Honorees, and Michael’s talk was part of a special symposium for fellow Future Faculty Honorees.
Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Engineering lipid mobility to enhance stress relaxation in hyaluronic acid hydrogels
Event: 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Embedded 3D bioprinting of collagen inks into microgel baths to control hydrogel microstructure and cell phenotype
Event: International Conference on Biofabrication 2024 - Lucia was honored at the conference’s Closing Ceremony with the 2024 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Young Investigator Award for PhD work at Stanford.
Awarded in 2023
Talk Title: 3D bioprinting of corneal cell-laden Iinks as bioengineered corneal substitutes
Event: European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) 2023
