The presentation by Trevor Marshall of Murdoch University and the Autoimmunity Research Foundation (which was given at 5pm Sunday) was also filmed. The HD version is at

http://www.vimeo.com/1270611

and a lower resolution version is at

http://vimeo.com/1268542

Abstracts and preprints of Marshall's published papers are available at

http://www.trevormarshall.com/papers.htm

[Posted by: shegeek at July 5, 2008 2:42 AM]

Reason,

Any word on why there was so little press coverage of the event? I was really hoping this thing would gt some exposure.

[Posted by: Ben at July 5, 2008 11:33 AM]

The instantaneous press coverage was good, in fact. You don't get much better than Wired and Slashdot in conjunction. The turnout for the symposium was excellent.

Historically, the real benefit of these conferences for slower-moving media matters has manifested over the months and years afterwards, as an edifice of legitimacy that swells ongoing mainstream attention, and broadens the flow of articles and knowledge. Rome wasn't built in a day.

[Posted by: Reason at July 5, 2008 11:52 AM]

Thanks for posting this. Looking forward to the complete official footage to be released.

[Posted by: Michael G.R. at July 5, 2008 7:44 PM]

Wow. I emphatically disagree. You get much, much better than Wired and Slashdot. A conference on this scale should have garnered far greater coverage than it did.

I agree about the long term benefits of a conference like this, but it was also a huge, one off opportunity for some media carpet bombing, and something seems to have gone wrong.

As much as this campaign to will be waged in the lab it must be waged in the worlds press. It's a propoganda war, and we're still at a point where most people don't even know this stuff is being attempted. Rome may not have been built in a day, but we can afford to be more ambitious with this stuff.

[Posted by: ben at July 5, 2008 8:42 PM]

BTW, does anyone know if there is/will be a PDF of the conference Proceedings booklet available, along with the eventual transcripts?

Thanks.

[Posted by: shegeek at July 6, 2008 3:38 AM]

We should be doing more research on moving these remaining thirteen mitochondria genes in to the safer environment of the nucleus. I would also like to see these species (some turtles for example) that appear not to age sequenced.

[Posted by: Terence Green at July 7, 2008 6:30 AM]