I was at the European AIDS Conference in Dublin, and I talked specifically about the FAAH Project, Scripps/Olsen, and the Rosetta Project to just about everyone I met. The conference organizers were interested in hearing something from one of the major players in this "Screen Saver" that helps fight HIV. I did NOT speak of FAAH/Scripps/Olsen very favorably. If HIV related work becomes one of the central parts of the Rosetta Project, the conference would be extremely interested in having a person from this project come and speak / set up a booth.

The European AIDS Conference was attended by almost every major country, pharmaceutical company and labratory working on the HIV Virus. While I did not have alot of information at the time regarding Rosetta's relationship to HIV work, I did mention that the people here were at least working on it.

The general response I received from those involved (Even the Virology research scientists, and executive level entities from Merck, Boehringer, GlaxoSmithKline, BM-Squibb, and Roche) was that they had never heard of such a program. However, they were extremely interested in participating (one even suggested using company computing power.).

I think that if this is in fact a core portion of the rosetta program, it would be in your best interest to contact the World AIDS Conference organizers and attend the next conference.

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Thanks Aaron--we should be running vaccine design calculations on rosetta@home well before the next conference, and will definitely plan to present our work at this meeting (maybe you can help!). thanks for the heads up!

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Thanks Aaron--we should be running vaccine design calculations on rosetta@home well before the next conference, and will definitely plan to present our work at this meeting (maybe you can help!). thanks for the heads up!

I called one of the people involved with the project, and they want you to send in your data for a poster via an online form in an "abstract".

There is a retrovirus conference coming up in Denver, and the World AIDS Conference is in Toronto, Canada in this summer. Personally, I think you should shoot for the World Conference in Toronto. The abstract deadline is in March I think.. so if you could provide to them a small abstract, (assuming they approve it) they should let you attend.

Non-Officialy, I can guarantee you you would get approved for at least a poster presentation and registration of your staff. If you have the money you could build a booth, but I don't know if the U of W would foot that bill :)

Costs for Universities is MUCH less than that of major companies however. Major companies can spend over 300k, but non-for-profits and universities pay almost nothing. (probably 1500 per person or less, including airfare)

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