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

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: A short-lived killifish model for studying the interaction between aging and reproduction
Event: Biology of Aging - Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: Identifying the aging intestine secretome and its role in lifespan regulation
Event: International C. elegans Conference 2023

Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Deborah Gordon
Talk Title: Colony variation in the relation between tempo of foraging and waste removal in harvester ant colonies
Event: Animal Behavior Society Meeting 2023

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: Manipulating neuro-immune interactions in the aging brain
Event: Gordon Research Conference Evolving Concepts of Organismal Aging

Home Departments: Genetics and Biology
Faculty Advisor: Anne Brunet
Talk Title: Single-cell transcriptomics reveals restoration of neuronal progenitors in the old neurogenic niche by partial reprogramming
Event: Biology of Aging - Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Michael Snyder
Talk Title: Classify dynamic responses to food through time-series glucose data
Event: Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting - 2023

Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Allan Reiss
Talk Title: Promoting cognitive, motor, and brain development in enriching virtual reality contexts for gameplay
Event: The 2023 Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting: Bringing Theory to the Forefront of Developmental Neuroscience Conference

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Near-amorphous semiconducting polymers with non-covalent interactions
Event: 2023 MRS Spring Meeting

Home Department: Surgery
Faculty Advisors: Charles K.F. Chan and Michael Longaker
Talk Title: Deciphering skeletal stem cell interaction with immune cells at bone regenerative interface to advance BMP-2 based bone regeneration
Event: 2024 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Advances in Mineral Metabolism

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Molecular engineering a synthetic BMP-2 analog for specific targeting of the skeletal stem cell niche
Event: 2023 AIMM-ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Meeting