Rock Your Cellular World with ASCB’s New Celldance Mashup Video

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A still image from the Celldance Mashup Video

Show the world what you and your cells do in the lab. Make the case for your science in an ASCB-supported Celldance 2016 “Tell Your Own Cell Story” video. ASCB member labs are invited to propose a short (3- to 4-minute) video. Celldance 2016 will pick the top three for $1,000 unrestricted production grants plus provide advice and full postproduction support. Details are at www.ascb.org/celldance2016.

But first, get fired up. Check out the just-released, visually stunning, 56-second Celldance Mashup Video of the top 2014 and 2015 films, featuring the world’s most exciting cell imaging (www.ascb.org/celldance2016). See cytotoxic t-cells hunt down and destroy cancer cells! See tumor cells sucker macrophages into helping them on their metastatic way! Enter a world of blebbing, shape shifting, and protein motoring where life and death fight it out before your eyes. And imagine your own video on the big screen (and on lots of little screens as well).

Now’s your chance to pitch us your own 2016 Celldance video. Outline your story in a one- or two-page proposal and link us to a short video clip of your best cell imaging by August 1. Celldance will pick the top three by September 1. If selected, you’ll have a $1,000 grant for unrestricted production use, a Celldance producer for advice, and the Celldance postproduction team for a final edit, a legal music track, slates, credits, and promotion. Your Celldance video will premiere on the Web and live at the ASCB 2016 Annual Meeting in San Francisco this December.


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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.