The 2009 AAAS/Science dance contest winners are announced

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Name: Markita Landry
Ph.D. Title: "Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes"
Ph.D. Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Date: 2011 (expected completion)
Current affiliation: graduate student, University of Illinois

The four winning video entries are available for journalists to use in their news coverage and are downloadable at the Science Press Package (SciPak) website at http://www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/sci/. Biographies of the judges are also available via the SciPak. Science publicly announced the four winners at 2 pm, US ET, Thursday, 20 November, at http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/. Further information about the contest is available at http://gonzolabs.org/dance/ or please contact John Bohannon, Ph.D., contributing correspondent, Science Magazine, at 1-617-852-0739 (mobile), or .

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