Belly dance wins ‘Dance your PhD’ contest

PhD candidate Katharina Hanika of the Laboratory of Plant Breeding has won the international ‘Dance your PhD’ contest, organized each year by the journal Science. Hanika used her belly-dancing skills to visualize her research on resistance to a fungus in tomato plants.

‘I have written and edited a lot of stories about plant diseases and this belly-dancing video was a nice, smart depiction of one such disease. I wish Katharina success in tackling this malignant fungus,’ says John Travis, managing news editor at Science.

Hanika already knows what she will spend the prize of 1000 dollars on: ‘I will use it to make new costumes for my belly-dancing group.’ This group, from the International Students Organization Wageningen (ISOW), helped her make the video.

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