All videos are now in for the 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. contest. This year, we've had a record 53 entries. You can check them all out below. And see past Dance Your Ph.D. winners here. The finalists will be announced this Friday, and the winner next week.
Mechanisms for Maintaining Ploidy in Somatic Cells
Aneuploidy, or an abnormal number of chromosomes, results from improper sister chromatid segregation. It is a hallmark of human cancers. Using a combination of experiments and computational modeling, we seek to understand how cells ensure...
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Imprinting Carbon Nanotube Growth on Challenging Substrates: Applications for Carbon-Fiber Composites
Carbon nanotubes are remarkable nanostructured fibers with diameters only a few times larger than atoms themselves.
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The Function of the Dance* Gene in Mouse Gastrulation
I am currently in the third year of my Ph.D. research, and this dance represents one part of my thesis that I have almost completed. It is not yet published, hence the use of a...
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Effects of Missense Mutations in the M Domain of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C on Contraction in the Heart
This is my PhD thesis dance about how myosin binding protein C helps regulate cardiac contraction. Enjoy!
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Cosmological Simulations of Galactic Disc Assembly
Our dance starts with a bang, a Big Bang. The dancers expand homogeneously like gas and the mysterious dark matter. This dance is mirrored throughout the Universe and reflects the lack of a centre. As...
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Plant Community and Ecosystem Effects of Drought in the Pinon/Juniper Ecosystem
Severe drought may become more frequent with climate change, so we need to understand the effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We investigate the pinon juniper ecosystem in the southwestern United States. This experiment set...
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HIV Immunogen Design using VSV
30 years ago, the first case of AIDS was reported and since then, 30 million people died because of AIDS-related causes. Currently, there are ~33 million people living with HIV and ~3 million new infections...
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Taking action in the face of fear: The neural substrates of active avoidance learning in humans
When first encountering a fear-eliciting stimulus, animals evince innate defensive behaviors, such as freezing.
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Phytochrome: An Eye of Plant
Phytochromes are red / far red light receptors in plants. It involves in various plant developmental aspects. The multiple roles of phytochromes in architecture, flowering and shade detection are described in this short video.
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Imprinting And Gene Silencing Are In The Air
During the course of my PhD in biology, our Dutch minister of Science and Education confessed to be a Creationist. That not only baffled me, but proved her incompetent.
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Media Responsibility and Social Media
Society is in the early phases of what appears to be a media revolution on the scale of that launched by Gutenberg in 1448. This invites comparisons. There are Jacobins and monarchs to be found...
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A Study of Social Interactivity Using Pigeon Courtship
This PhD study challenges the traditional
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Metabolic Effects of Dietary Proteins
At the beginning of this PhD adventure, the discovery that dietary proteins may impact on fat metabolism in humans by preventing their accumulation in the liver, a real current hot topic in regard of obesity,...
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Connecting Proportionality and Slope: Middle School Students
In my dissertation, I surveyed middle school students and asked them about their ideas of steepness. Steepness apears in many aspects of our everyday lives - for example, hills, roofs, stairs have steepnesses that we...
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Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
The focus of my research is to investigate consequences of a hearing loss that originates from damage to the ear caused by repetitive exposure to very loud sounds or to a one-time exposure to an...
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Manganese-Enhanced MRI as an In Vivo Functional Imaging Tool
Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) is an increasingly used imaging tool in preclinical research. We applied this method to a mouse model of extremes in trait anxiety under basal conditions.
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Microstructure-Property Relationships in Ti2448 Components Produced by Selective Laser Melting
Revision hip replacement surgery is most commonly because of deterioration in the underlying bone's integrity. Bone requires stress to grow and to maintain strength, yet the materials currently used in orthopaedic implants are too stiff...
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Equatorial Topside Magnetic Field-Aligned Ion Drifts at Solar Minimum
My dissertation uses measurements of ion velocities taken on-board the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite to describe the movement of plasma between the northern...
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Psychometric Assessment of Major Depressive Disorder in Epilepsy Patients
People with epilepsy are significantly more likely to also have depression. But why is this the case? What are the underlying mechanisms that might link these two neurological diseases?
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Fullerene-Based Systems for Optical Spin Readout
Molecules can carry a tiny magnet called spin. This spin can be rotated using microwave radiation (spin resonance), which gives unique information about the molecule. But the signal is so small that it is usually...
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Expecting the Unexpected: Indicators of Resilience as Early-Warning Signals for Critical Transitions
What do ecosystems, financial markets, and the climate have in common? They can all change in abrupt, irreversible, and unexpected ways.
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Auditory Processing and the Lateralisation of Emotion
n cognitive neuroscience, an ear advantage is a behavioural measure indicative of predominate processing in the opposite hemisphere of the human brain. Currently, the best-known asymmetry is the right ear advantage for verbal material indicative...
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X-ray Crystal Structure of Human Protein Phosphatase
Using x-ray crystallography to solve protein structure is the focus in our lab. The dance interprets the difficult and time consuming process of obtaining a 3-dimensional protein structure, which is crucial for not just understanding...
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The Effect of Hypertonicity on Plasma Membrane Transporter Localization and Endocytosis
By using Aspergillus nidulans strains expressing functional GFP-tagged transporters under hypertonic conditions, we noticed the rapid appearance of cortical, relatively static, fluorescent patches.
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Antisense Oligonucleotides-Mediated Exon Skipping for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal muscle disease which is caused by non functional dystrophin protein.
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Identity and Emotional Labor in Care Work
The video is based on Merete Monrad's PhD-research on the working life of care workers (in elder care and childcare). The basic theoretical idea of this research is, that it is crucial for people's well-being...
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The Effect of Intra-uterine Growth Restriction on the Cognitive Development of Piglets.
The proteins of the Bcl-2 family control programmed cell death (apoptosis), and the balance between pro-survival proteins and pro-death proteins determine the fate of the cell. Even though some of the Bcl-2 family proteins have...
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Towards Environmental-Friendly, Low-Cost and High-Efficiency Colloidal Nanocrystal-Based Solar Cells.
The so-long requested video showing the publishing drama experienced by PhD students to obtain their degree.
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Language as Sequences: A Causal Role for Broca
A sequence with three parts is danced in many variations. The sequence consists of one repeating move and a different third move.
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Human Factors Analysis of New Technology Adoption in Control Room Centres, a Holistic Approach.
New technologies can offer many benefits to organisations.
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Effect of Tear Film Lipid Parameters in Contact Lens Comfort.
About 125 million people wear contact lens world wide. Most of them experience discomfort due to lens wear and over a period of time discontinue lens wear.
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Learning in a Physics Classroom Community: Physics Learning Identity Construct Measurement Development and Validation
At the university level, introductory science courses usually have high student to teacher ratios which increases the challenge to meaningfully connect with students.
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Dance your phd competition 2011 - hoda eydgahi
I know the website says that you don't care if we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Algorithms, but I've decided to step up to the challenge and show that MCMC can be described in...
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Human-Based Percussion and Self-Similarity Detection in Electroacoustic Music
The essence of my computational-acoustics dissertation can be boiled down to trying to teach a computer to hear percussion in music like a human. Having a human, Alain Rouvez, teach a robot, Shiny Robot, how...
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Redesigning Learning
This dance is an overview of a teacher/researcher
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DNA Aptamers as a Tool for Studying Mental Health Disease
The DeRosa lab at Carleton University is interested in the development of DNA aptamers that can eventually be used as the foundation of innovative tools to understand, diagnose and treat mental health disease. Aptamers, are...
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Smell mediated response to relatedness of potential mates
Individuals often migrate from their place of origin in a relatively slow pace. As such, related individuals frequently interact. Relatedness between two individuals is defined as the percentage of genes in those two individuals that...
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Investigation of the Influence of Product, Process and Installation Parameters on the Cross-Contamination of Allergens after Displacement or Cleaning of Food Products.
The project investigates cross-contamination of allergenic food ingredients (e.g. peanut, soy, egg) during production in food companies.
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Possession and self extension in digital environments: Implications for maintaining personal information.
In a world of cheap digital storage, individuals can easily accumulate vast amounts of digital items, but maintaining those digital items requires more time and effort. Currently, there is little guidance about how to go...
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Early acquisition of phonological categories and phonological rules: A Dutch-Japanese cross-linguistic study.
In their first year of life, infants develop from universal listeners, who are able to distinguish most human speech sound contrasts...
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Comprehending The Complex Functions of an 11-Zinc-Finger Transcription Factor.
Every PhD encounters this uncomfortable feeling during their hard period of science training. Will it yield that title in the end? And when is it going to end? And then what? Then you are a...
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Shedding Light
The wings of a butterfly of the Morpho genus appear blue from some viewing angles, purple from other viewing angles, and black from still other viewing angles. When two light waves have the same wavelength,...
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Methodological integration and evolutionary systems biology
The dance was based around analysis of recent work by the evolutionary systems biologist Andreas Wagner, whose novel theory of evolutionary innovation has been supported by an integration of methods from theoretical evolutionary and applied...
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The evolution of metabolic rate in reptiles and amphibians
My dance can be split into two segments; the first segment demonstrates the relationship between activity levels that are demanded by an animal’s lifestyle and the availability of resources as “fuel” to support a...
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The Effect of Western Style Diet Consumption on Epigenetic Patterns
My thesis focuses on the effect of consumption of a Western style diet on epigenetic patterns. A Western style diet is typically characterized as being high in saturated fat and protein and low in...
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Alexios Arvanitis (Social Exchange Theory)
The main focus of my Ph.D. was to offer a motivational perspective to Social Exchange Theory (a theory that treats social interaction as give-and-take of resources such as money, love, information) that is not based...
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Developing syndromic surveillance for healthcare associated infections using linked hospital data
My project aims to reduce the incidence of healthcare associated infections by linking the different databases from an English hospital.
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Nanosensing protein allostery and peptide interactions using SERS
This dance represents a novel bivalent MDM2 assay which investigates protein allostery utilizing functionalized nanoparticles and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
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The Password Hypothesis
Vocal imitation, where an individual learns to produce the vocalization of others, occurs in humans and a handful of diverse orders of birds and mammals. The password hypothesis states that shared group signals function as...
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Guarding and Robbing Behavior in Social Insects
When social insects build up food stores, they also have to defend them. In most cases, identifying a foreign individual is simple, such as a bear attacking a beehive. But for many social insects, robbing...
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Fifty Years of the Indonesian Throughflow
My Ph.D. research focuses on the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), which is an important but poorly understood part of global ocean circulation. It transports water and energy from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean by...
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