The results for the fourth annual “Dance Your Ph.D” contest, sponsored by Science, are in!
First prize went to “Microstructure-Property relationships in Ti2448 components produced by Selective Laser Melting: A Love Story”, created by Joel Miller, a biomedical engineer at the University of Western Australia in Perth. (Go BME!) He is working on ways to make better hip implants — ones that are more flexible, more customizable, and will last longer. (Click the link to his video on Vimeo to see his full writeup.)
Here’s his video:
Microstructure-Property relationships in Ti2448 components produced by Selective Laser Melting: A Love Story from Joel Miller on Vimeo.
The three other winners — smell-mediated fruit fly courtship, X-ray crystallography, and pigeon society — can be seen at the main Science article.
I guess this means I need to start choreographing my research for next year! Since it’s about arrhythmia, I might take inspiration from the classic Diagnosis Wenckebach, performed by the 2010 Med class at the University of Alberta.