The "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest 2010

Winner of the CHEMISTRY category and BEST DANCE of 2010:
Maureen McKeague dances her PhD, “Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment.”

Here is McKeague’s explanation of her dance.

Winner of the PHYSICS category:
Australian physicist Steven Lade dances “Directed transport without net bias in physics and biology.”

Here is Lade’s explanation of his dance.

Winner of the BIOLOGY category:
Maartje Cathelijne de Jong dances her PhD, “The influence of previous experiences on visual awareness.”

Here is de Jong’s explanation of her dance.

Winner of the SOCIAL SCIENCES category:
Anne Goldenberg dances her PhD, “The negotiation of contributions to public wikis.”

Here is Goldenberg’s explanation of her dance.

And here are the rest of the excellent 2010 PhD dances…

In the CHEMISTRY category, David Odde dances his PhD, “Microtubule Catastrophe in Living Cells.”

Here is Odde’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Shiori Oshima dances her PhD, “Analysis of Red Blood Cell and Photon Interaction for Noninvasive Thrombus Prevention.”

Here is Oshima’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Alejandra Rangel dances her PhD, “Enhanced Susceptibility of PrPc Knockout mice against Kainate.”

Here is Rangel’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Jenny Anderson dances her PhD, “Using phosphoproteomics to define cell signaling networks modulated by EWS/FLI1 and IGF-I in Ewing’s family tumors.”

Here is Anderson’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Jennifer Whitesell dances her PhD, “Mechanisms of lateral inhibition between olfactory bulb glomeruli.”

Here is Whitesell’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Radoslaw Lach dances his PhD, “Synthetic lethality screen for anti-cancer treatment.”

Here is Lach’s explanation of his dance.

In the SOCIAL SCIENCES category, Fuad Elhage dances his PhD, “Dance as a vehicle for prejudice reduction and second language acquisition.”

Here is Elhage’s explanation of his dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Rubenier Montano dances his PhD, “An Iron Cluster as an Electron Acceptor for Photovoltaic Cells.”

Here is Montano’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Nichola Hawkins dances her PhD, “Recent evolution of Rhynchosporium secalis populations in response to selection by fungicides.”

Here is Hawkins’ explanation of her dance.

In the PHYSICS category, Charlisa Daniels dances her PhD, “Measuring Surface Interactions using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.”

Here is Daniels’ explanation of her dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Ramiro Barrantes-Reynolds dances his PhD, “Use of Shifts in Amino Acid Frequency or Substitution Rate to Identify Latent Structural Characters in Base-Excision Repair Enzymes.”

Here is Barrantes-Reynolds’s explanation of his dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Kerstin Wagner dances her PhD, “Lipid Membrane Structure.”

Here is Wagner’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Christin Murphy dances her PhD, “Hydrodynamic Trail Following in a Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina).”

Here is Murphy’s explanation of her dance.

In the SOCIAL SCIENCES category, Felice Le dances her PhD, “Estimating Causal Effects of a High School Degree on Health.”

Here is Le’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Julie Martellini dances her PhD, “Cationic antimicrobial peptides derived from human seminal plasma inhibit HIV-1 infection.”

Here is Martellini’s explanation of her dance.

In the PHYSICS category, Irwin Singer dances his PhD, “Generation and Detection of High-Energy Phonons by Superconducting Junctions.”

Here is Singer’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Elicia Grace dances her PhD, “TraR may increase survival during stress and conjugation.”

Here is Grace’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Masha Kon dances his PhD, “Chaperone mediated autophagy in disease.”

Here is Kon’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Maude David dances her PhD, “Bacterial adaptation to chlorinated compounds.”

Here is David’s explanation of her dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Lara Rajeev dances her PhD, “Mechanism of Integration of NBU1, a Bacteroides mobilizable transposon.”

Here is Rajeev’s explanation of her dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Andy Wowor dances his PhD, “DNA Structural Selectivity of Binding by the Pol I DNA Polymerases from Escherichia coli and Thermus aquaticus.”

Here is Wowor’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Leo Kenefic dances his PhD, “Genetic Diversity of Bacillus anthracis in North America.”

Here is Kenefic’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Rupsha Fraser dances her PhD, “The role of decidual natural (dNK cells) in pregnancy.”

Here is Fraser’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Rebecca Dean dances her PhD, “Male ageing and sexual conflict in the feral fowl.”

Here is Dean’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Donatas Noreika dances his PhD, “Temporal features of binocular rivalry.”

Here is Noreika’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Daria Neidre dances her PhD, “The Use of Autologous Adipose and Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells in a Point of Care Goat Non-Instrumented Posterolateral Lumbar Spinal Fusion Model.”

Here is Neidre’s explanation of her dance.

In the PHYSICS category, Dan King dances his PhD, “Melt segregation and strain localization in deforming partially molten rocks.”

Here is King’s explanation of his dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Romas Kudirka dances his PhD, “Reactions Utilizing Palladium-Catalyzed Carbene Insertions.”

Here is Kudirka’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Jillian Richmond dances her PhD, “Subversion of host immunity by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.”

Here is Richmond’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Michelle Williams dances her PhD, “CT coronary angiography: Application and clinical validation.”

Here is Williams’ explanation of her dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Christine Herman dances her PhD, “Generation of surface-immobilized biomolecular gradients for the investigation of leukocyte recruitment.”

Here is Herman’s explanation of her dance.

In the SOCIAL SCIENCES category, Keith Massey dances his PhD, “The Concord of Collective Nouns and Verbs in Biblical Hebrew: A Controlled Study.”

Here is Massey’s explanation of his dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Annapoorna Kuppuswamy dances her PhD, “Cortical plasticity and functional change in human spinal cord injury investigated using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.”

Here is Kuppuswamy’s explanation of her dance.

In the BIOLOGY category, Betsy Swanner dances her PhD, “A metabolically-versatile bacterium thrives in granitic rock of the deep subsurface.”

Here is Swanner’s explanation of her dance.

In the PHYSICS category, Wendy Crone dances “Experimental Investigation of the Deformation Near a Notch Tip in Metallic Single Crystals.”

Here is Crone’s explanation of her dance.

In the CHEMISTRY category, Anna Henderson does the Isotope Square Dance based on her Ph.D. thesis “Dual hydrogen and oxygen isotopic approach for tracking seasonal precipitation contributions and evaporative processes in modern systems and in paleoclimate reconstructions.”

Here is Henderson’s explanation of her dance.

In the PHYSICS category, Canadian physicist Krister Shalm dances “The Quantum Ruler: Using Quantum Mechanics to make better measurements.”

Here is Shalm’s explanation of his dance.