The CMB Travel Award is available throughout the year, and students may apply at any time. This award will cover up to $500 in expenses.
Eligibility:
- Current CMB Students who present a poster or talk at a scientific conference or will travel to another lab to collaborate or learn new technique
- Students are eligible to receive the award every other year
The Travel Award application consists of a cover sheet, an abstract, and a statement from the student’s Thesis Advisor confirming travel plans and supporting the application. Once the application is submitted, the Travel Awards Committee will review the application within two weeks of receiving all application materials.
More details are included on the Travel Award Form.
Research travel grants for $600-$1500 are also available through the Graduate School.
2023-2024 Travel Awardees
Nick Arp, Class of 2021, Jing Fan Lab
CMB Travel Award- 13th International Conference on Biology, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Applications of Nitric, Stockholm, Sweden
Janna Bashar, Class of 2018, Miriam Shelef Lab
CMB Travel Award- American College of Rheumatology Annual Convergence 2023, San Diego, California
Annemarie Branks, Class of 2021, Melissa Harrison Lab
CMB Travel Award-The Allied Genetics Conference, Washington D.C.
Caleb Carlsen, Class of 2022, Beth Weaver Lab
CMB Travel Award- FASEB Consequences of Aneuploidy Conference, Melbourne, Florida
Shalini Chakraborty, Class of 2019, Mary Halloran Lab
CMB Travel Award- Cell Biology Conference 2023, Boston, Massachusetts
Dominic Chomchai, Class of 2020, William Bement Lab
CMB Travel Award- Cell Biology Conference 2023, Boston, Massachusetts
Yuling Dai, Class of 2019, Yuling Dai Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2024, Anaheim, California
Anna Dickfoss, Class of 2023, Mark Mandel Lab
CMB Travel Award- 2024 Squid Vibrio Conference, Pasadena, California
Beatrice Diep, Class of 2022, Kinjal Majumder Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Society for Virology, Columbus, Ohio
Alex Fister, Class of 2020, Anna Huttenlocher Lab
CMB Travel Award-The 18th International Zebrafish Conference, Kyoto, Japan
Lila Hoachlander-Hobby, Class of 2021, William Bement Lab
CMB Travel Award- Cell Biology Conference 2023, Boston, Massachusetts
Annie Huang, Class of 2021, Merrins Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Diabetes Association’s 84th Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Florida
Jeong Hyo Lee, Class of 2021, Vincent Cryns & Richard Anderson Lab
CMB Travel Award- MOGAM-Korean American Society in Biotech and Pharmaceuticals (KASBP) Symposium, Parsippany, New Jersey
Rodrigo Ibarra, Class of 2022, Andrew Mehle Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Society of Virology (ASV) Conference, Columbus, Ohio
Steve John, Class of 2018, Jing Fan Lab
CMB Travel Award- Gordon Conference: Immunometabolism in Health and Disease, Smithfield, Rhode Island
Drew Jordahl, Class of 2023, Joshua Coon Lab
CMB Travel Award-American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Anaheim, California
Charlotte Kanzler, Class of 2019, Michael Sheets Lab
CMB Travel Award- Cold Spring Harbor Translational Control Conference, Long Island, New York
Jacob Khoussine, Class of 2020, Mrinalini Hoon Lab
CMB Travel Award- ARVO 2024, Seattle, Washington
Rachel Kocik, Class of 2019, Audrey Gasch Lab
CMB Travel Award- The Allied Genetics Conference, Washington D.C.
Claire Larsen, Class of 2021, Kinjal Majumder Lab
CMB Travel Award- International Parvovirus Workshop, Leuven, Belgium
Jorgo Lika, Class of 2020, Jing Fan Lab
CMB Travel Award- Gordon Research Conference- Immunometabolism in Health and Disease, Smithfield, Rhode Island
Susmit Mhatre, Class of 2023, Moore Lab
CMB Travel Award- EMBO Molecular mechanisms of ageing and regeneration: From hydra to humans, Spetses, Greece
Grant Nickles, Class of 2020, Nancy Keller Lab
CMB Travel Award- Fungal Genetics Conference, Monterey Bay, California
Holly Rucker, Class of 2022, Betül Kaçar Lab
CMB Travel Award- Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), Providence, Rhode Island
Sayandeep Saha, Class of 2022, Matthew Brown Lab
CMB Travel Award- Great Lakes Transplant Immunology Incubator Forum, Chicago, Illinois
Daniel Sam, Class of 2020, Beth Weaver Lab
CMB Travel Award- FASEB Consequences of Aneuploidy Conference, Melbourne, Florida
Abhilash Sawant, Class of 2017, Mrinalini Hoon Lab
CMB Travel Award- Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2023, Washington, D.C.
Ashley Scott, Class of 2019, Kristyn Masters Lab
CMB Travel Award- Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD), Bergen, Norway
Zhouyuan Shen, Class of 2018, Mark Burkard Lab
CMB Travel Award- Cell Biology Conference 2023, Boston, Massachusetts
UW-Madison Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award, Madison, Wisconsin
Adenine Si Koo, Class of 2021, Randal Tibbetts Lab
CMB Travel Award- Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
Ajay Singh, Class of 2020, John-Paul Yu Lab
CMB Travel Award- 2024 Annual Society of Biological Psychiatry, Austin, Texas
Owen Sullivan, Class of 2020, Andrew Mehle Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Society of Virology (ASV) Conference, Columbus, Ohio
Kevin Swift, Class of 2019, Anjon Audhya Lab
CMB Travel Award- Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Monnette Villarreal, Class of 2022, Kinjal Majumder Lab
CMB Travel Award- American Society for Virology, Columbus, Ohio
Emily Wessel, Class of 2019, Drummond-Barbosa Lab
CMB Travel Award- Allied Genetics Conference 2024, Washington, D.C.
Nicole West, Class of 2020, Anita Bhattacharyya Lab
CMB Travel Award- Trisomy 21 Research Society International Conference (T21RS), Rome, Italy
Casey Wong, Class of 2022, Scott Coyle Lab
CMB Travel Award- International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop 2024, Boston, Massachusetts
Zhiyan Xu, Class of 2022, Xinyu Zhao Lab
CMB Travel Award- SFN Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, Illinois