Tuberculosis & RNA Conference Fund
Donation protected
First hosted at Stanford University in 2015, Eternacon is a conference of Eterna players, scientists, and developers developing RNA folding strategies for detecting Tuberculosis (TB) quickly in the field at low cost. Eterna is the name of the crowdsourced project that Stanford organizes that is on the front lines of multi-state RNA design and analysis that uses a "game" format to deliver trully scientific data to its "players".
These "players" are actually citizen scientists who design unique RNA sequences to solve problems and "puzzles". The strategies that these players develop will save so many lives around the world once fully developed and we are asking for help with travel costs for people to attend this conference that will have an impact on TB research.
In the past, during the conference we've had many different talks by participants about RNA folding strategies, scientific advancements, the community, and the future of Eterna as a whole, a tour of the lab, open discussion about the current state of Eterna and make suggestions to the team, and the chance to get to know fellow Eterna players.
The Eterna community is a diverse group of people from many different backgrounds and circumstances in life. There are some of us in this group who are unable to afford the cost of travel to this important event and that is why we are raising money to help pay for those players to travel to Stanford and participate in the events along with their peers.
If you are able to, please donate to our cause. Whatever amount you can give is a big help. We have set a very high goal because we have players from around the world who participate and we would love to help them come here to participate.
The date of this years conference is July 16th and 17th and since we would like to reimburse travel expenses on the day of the event please donate to us before those dates.
Thank you and have a great day.
P.S.
Here are some links
Eternacon 2016 Wiki
http://eternawiki.org/wiki/index.php5/Eternacon
Eterna Home Page
http://www.eternagame.org/web/
These "players" are actually citizen scientists who design unique RNA sequences to solve problems and "puzzles". The strategies that these players develop will save so many lives around the world once fully developed and we are asking for help with travel costs for people to attend this conference that will have an impact on TB research.
In the past, during the conference we've had many different talks by participants about RNA folding strategies, scientific advancements, the community, and the future of Eterna as a whole, a tour of the lab, open discussion about the current state of Eterna and make suggestions to the team, and the chance to get to know fellow Eterna players.
The Eterna community is a diverse group of people from many different backgrounds and circumstances in life. There are some of us in this group who are unable to afford the cost of travel to this important event and that is why we are raising money to help pay for those players to travel to Stanford and participate in the events along with their peers.
If you are able to, please donate to our cause. Whatever amount you can give is a big help. We have set a very high goal because we have players from around the world who participate and we would love to help them come here to participate.
The date of this years conference is July 16th and 17th and since we would like to reimburse travel expenses on the day of the event please donate to us before those dates.
Thank you and have a great day.
P.S.
Here are some links
Eternacon 2016 Wiki
http://eternawiki.org/wiki/index.php5/Eternacon
Eterna Home Page
http://www.eternagame.org/web/
Organizer
Jennifer Pearl
Organizer
Stanford, CA