Wellcome Trust (Cambridge, UK) will host the meeting “Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes” in summer 2010 (June 5-8). [See details].

Whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequence assemblies of gonochoristic Caenorhabditis species C. remanei and C. brenneri contain substantial heterozygosity. (Barrière et al., Genome Research, 2009).

Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun receive 2008 Albert Laskar Basic Medical Research award for their work on small RNAs.