{"393661":{"#nid":"393661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meyer Getting Nobel Exposure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re a young scientific researcher looking for motivation, you could do a lot worse than meeting a Nobel Laureate and picking his brain. But what if you could meet a whole bunch of them? That\u2019s exactly what Travis Meyer is going to do this summer when he participates in the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (June 28-July 3) in Lindau, Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cOne of the things I really like about science is that you have the ability to use creativity to solve problems, and that is very much stimulated by being in different surroundings,\u201d says Meyer, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u201cSo it will be interesting to hear and learn about science that that might be completely different from what I\u2019m used to on a given day. And you never know how an experience like this might spur a new idea.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery year, Nobel Laureates gather in Lindau to take part in a multitude of lectures, panel discussions, and master classes. This year\u2019s meeting will feature a record number of 70 Nobel Laureates and 672 students (like Meyer), Ph.D. candidates, and post-docs from all over the world, in three natural science Nobel Prize disciplines: medicine and physiology, physics, and chemistry. Meyer says he is just as interested in the honored researchers\u2019 lives away from the lab, away from the science.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI\u2019m interested in their personal experiences and their philosophies, how they feel about science and academia, and how they view their roles. That should be pretty motivating,\u201d says Meyer, who is co-advised by Gang Bao and Yonggang Ke, both based in the Coulter Department, both Petit Institute faculty members. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo Meyer works in both the Ke Lab for Biomolecular Nanoengineering as well as Bao\u2019s Laboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI\u2019m primarily interested in nanotechnology, specifically for drug delivery applications, or biomedical applications in general,\u201d says Meyer, a graduate of Vanderbilt, who received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award in March 2013.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cTravis has shown amazing ability in conceptualizing new, creative ideas and has been making significant progress,\u201d says Bao, who welcomed Meyer to his lab in 2012. \u201cHe thinks critically and independently and has demonstrated excellent communication skills and exceptional leadership skills in the Georgia Tech community at large.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeyer is chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Board in the Coulter Department. He co-chaired the first Biomaterials Day at the Petit Institute last year, and is co-chair of the Social Leadership Committee for the Bioengineering and Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (BBUGS).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nobel Laureate program is administered and co-sponsored by Oak Ridge Associated Universities, a 115-member university consortium. Those universities nominate outstanding students and post-docs, and following preliminary reviews, a scientific review panel for the Lindau event selects attendees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cTravis has outstanding potential as a young leader in biomedical engineering research and education,\u201d Bao says. \u201cAttending the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will benefit him tremendously.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeyer knows it will pay off in the long run in his career, which he figures will be based in academia. \u201cI\u2019d like to run my own lab and direct my own research at some point,\u201d he says. \u201cI know that I\u2019ll like interacting with students. I\u2019ve always enjoyed mentoring and tutoring, so the idea of teaching really appeals to me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Grad student to attend annual meeting of Nobel Laureates"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrad student to attend annual meeting of Nobel Laureates\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Grad student to attend annual meeting of Nobel Laureates"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-04-03 15:19:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"393651":{"id":"393651","type":"image","title":"Travis Meyer","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475895110","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:50","alt":"Travis Meyer","file":{"fid":"75610","name":"travis_meyer.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/travis_meyer.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/travis_meyer.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1052162,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/travis_meyer.jpg?itok=YSWsmFEp"}}},"media_ids":["393651"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"2252","name":"Nobel"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}