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: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Ovijit Chaudhuri
Talk Title: Native extracellular matrix secretions mediate chondrocyte mechanosensation of hydrogel scaffold viscoelasticity
Event: ACS Fall 2025
Awarded in 2024
Talk Title: Non-linear elasticity of composite hydrogels and biological tissues
Event: International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2024
Home Department: Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Fire
Talk Title: Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes
Event: Viruses of Microbes 2024
Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: David Spiegel and Nolan Williams
Talk Title: The future of noninvasive brain stimulation in psychotherapy
Event: Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2024
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Alia Crum
Talk Title: Using word clouds to examine patients' perceptions of inflammatory arthritis
Event: 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS 2024)
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Judith Frydman
Talk Title: SARS-CoV2 orf3A enhanced VLPs reveal fundamental aspects of virion assembly
Event: The American Society for Virology Annual Meeting 2024
Home Department: Cancer Biology
Faculty Advisor: Le Cong
Talk Title: Perturbing and tracing tumor lineages resistant to NK killing
Event: Single-Cell Genomics GRC 2024
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: 3D-printed lattice micro-array patches (L-MAPs) for versatile and tunable transdermal delivery
Event: Controlled Release Society 2024
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Design rules for supramolecular hydrogel-cell interactions: From growing tissue towards bio-electronic applications
Event: ACS Fall 2024 Denver - Laura received the ACS Global Outstanding Student Award 2024.
Home Department: Cardiovascular Medicine
Faculty Advisor: Juyong Brian Kim
Talk Title: Chronic electronic cigarette exposure accelerates SMC phenotypic modulation and activates the NMDA-type glutamate receptor (NMDAR) pathway in mediating vascular calcification
Event: Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine 2024 Scientific Sessions
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven Boxer
Talk Title: A chemical synthetic biology approach to origin, structure, and dynamics of cellular membranes
Event: International Membrane Biophysics Meeting "From Model to Cellular Membranes" 2024
