After a few months of arm-wrestling the reviewers, both of Erica's papers generated from her thesis work were published. In addition to the arm-wrestling, she completed other feats of strength needed to demonstrate intellectual superiority (including lab chores like autoclaving hundreds of liters of media, bench-pressing cases of latex gloves, and "walking over hot coals", simulated by broken lab glassware that had P-32 drizzled over it).
You can catch your own glimpse of the papers here and here.
