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2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest
It started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation, but was transformed into modern dance, a medium in which individual interpretation is the essence.

The results are in from the Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. From 17 April and 17 May, people around the world tried to guess which of four scientific research articles inspired which of four modern dances commissioned by AAAS (publisher of Science).

The correct match between dance and science are:

Dance 1: Scientist C
“The Business of Building” was choreographed by Jenn Liang Chaboud, working with Vince LiCata on “Salt Dependence of DNA binding by Thermus aquaticus and Escherichia coli DNA Polymerases.” pdf

Dance 2: Scientist D
“Q minor” was choreographed by Christopher McCray, working with Markita Landry on “Mechanism of Force Generation of a Viral DNA Packaging Motor.” pdf

Dance 3: Scientist B
“Whoosh” was choreographed by Helena Reynolds, working with Miriam Sach on “Unified inflectional processing of regular and irregular verbs: a PET study.” pdf

Dance 4: Scientist A
“Sun Starved” was choreographed by Chloe Jensen, working with Sue Lynn Lau on “Loss of ARNT/HIF1β Mediates Altered Gene Expression and Pancreatic-Islet Dysfunction in Human Type 2 Diabetes.” pdf

Full results and analysis can be found at http://gonzolabs.org/dance

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