Last Call for Celldance 2016 Proposals—What? Why? And Finally When?

Imagine yourself sitting in a bar with labmates, celebrating your latest cell imaging videos that you are screening on a computer tablet. A complete stranger standing next to you glances over your shoulder and is fascinated. She asks a few questions. You tell her the story of these images—what they are, how you came to study them, why you are fascinated, and why a complete stranger should be interested in this cell story. This could also be grandma or that pesky uncle during the holidays or a smart young student that you’re trying to recruit to the lab. That’s the kind of video story that Celldance Studios wants you to tell the world in a 3-4 minute video. Tell us that cell story.

 

ASCB will help. We’re looking for the three best cell stories from ASCB member labs. If you are one of three chosen, ASCB will give you a $1,000 unrestricted production grant plus postproduction support including final editing, a legal music track, credits, titles, and promotion.

 

Two key points:

  • All Celldance details (and an eye-popping 56-second Celldance mashup) are here.
  • The deadline for Celldance proposals is Monday, August 1, by 6:00 pm Eastern.

 

So what is a Celldance proposal?

A Celldance proposal should be simple, a one or two page story outline plus a short video sample of your most beautiful/most exciting cell imaging. (These samples do not have to be the video sequences that you will use in your actual Celldance video.) Tell us about your cell imaging. Tell us what we’re looking at, tell us what you, the scientist, see here. Tell us how and why you captured these images. Tell us why these images are important to health or to science or to you.

 

About the Author:


John Fleischman was the ASCB Senior Science Writer from 2000 to 2016. Best unpaid perk of the job? Working with new grad students and Nobel Prize winners.