Phage therapy
The isolation, characterization and pre-clinical screening of novel bacteriophages as therapies for antibiotic resistant, sexually-transmitted bacterial infections.
Next Call: 1/27/13 8:00pm PST/10:00pm CST
Social Project Goals and Community Agreements
Throughout the course of this project, participants will help create and foster an open access citizen science project that accomplishes specific scientific goals while educating and nurturing community scientific creativity.
Everyone participating in this project agrees to the following:
We are non-hierarchical:
- We recognize the outcomes of hierarchy. Hierarchy represses creative thought in science, denies access to science, and holds back global scientific development. As a collective of citizen scientists working toward a more complete understanding of molecular medicine, we commit ourselves to nurturing creative, positive voices within our community. We commit ourselves to hearing everyone and refuse to acknowledge hierarchy based on: sex and gender; race; age; accreditation; education; class; or access to resources. We will stand in solidarity against oppression and hierarchy.
Open Access and transparency:
- Everyone is invited to participate in and learn from this project. We will always make time for conversation and teaching opportunities. Online meetings, communications regarding this project, and all findings will be publicized on this fully-editable wiki with the stipulation that those participating adhere to a value system of mutual respect, safety and understanding; while accepting that these values will be enforced via community-based decision making.
Decision-making:
- Consensus; we believe scientists should be open to discussion around research experiments and project directions. To foster a spirit of openness and understanding, no decision will be made without 100% consensus.
Answering Questions:
- Our social goal is the pursuit of medical knowledge, we are not approaching this project with the hope of making money; we want to answer questions - collectively- and serve humanity. We will stand in solidarity against anyone who chooses to co-opt or privatize any portion of this project. All knowledge must be free and accessible!
if you'd like to attend the conference call, please contact: Craig (moleculararts [at] riseup [dot] net)
Relevance
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/phenom_oct00.html?c=y&page=1
Here are some videos to review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPZq2K_Tos&NR=1&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbZpo8oXSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VjE1zddXWk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENpYdQg-z4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egY-Br_oTHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oms5SA_4-kE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQhNyX7DRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcMGktSc7c&NR=1&feature=endscreen