2020 March 22
Update on the topic meeting “Ecology, Evolution and Genomics of C. elegans and Other Nematodes”:
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, physical meeting has been cancelled. The possibility of a virtual, on-line meeting is being explored.
The other two topic meetings and European meeting are not affected as yet. More details will be released in coming weeks. These are,
Neuronal Development, Synapse Function and Behavior
July 8-11, 2020
University of Vienna, Austria
Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress and Small RNAs
July 16th-19th, 2020
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
European C. elegans meeting
July 12-15, 2020
Luminy Campus, Marseille, France
The Indian worm meeting has been postponed. Visit the website for details: https://www.indiancelegansmeet2020.com
2020 January 9
This year’s C. elegans topic meeting “Ecology, Evolution and Genomics of C. elegans and Other Nematodes” will be held June 24-27 at McMaster University. Organizers are Te-Wen Lo, Patrick Phillips, Annalise Paaby, and Christian Braendle [Source: wormmeetings@weebly]. Last time the meeting took place at Wellcome Genome Campus (July 5-7, 2018).
2019 December 13
The C. briggsae website (briggsae.org) underwent a major change last week. The site has migrated to a new hosting provider and running on WordPress CMS. This represents a significant shift from old-fashioned HTML coding and site management. Going forward, it should be easier to update and maintain the contents.
Ren et al. (2018) report C. nigoni genome sequence assembly and improved C. briggsae assembly
Ren et al. (2018). Genomic basis of recombination suppression in the hybrid between Caenorhabditis briggsae and C. nigoni. Nucleic Acid Research.
https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/3/1295/4793371
The cb4 C. briggsae assembly contains 5,997 gaps (represented by ‘Ns’) and 361 contigs not anchored to any chromosome (‘unassigned’). Ren et al. filled 2,304 gaps by replacing ~240 kbs on six chromosomes and partially closed gaps in ‘unassigned contigs’ and extended ~800 kb sequences. This resulted in a total of ~1,040 kb of new sequence data. The authors also anchored 124 of 361 ‘unassigned’ contigs that added ~1.8 Mb back to individual chromosomes.
2015 March 15
The 20th International C. elegans meeting will be held this year June 26-30 in Los Angeles. Read more about it here.
The C. elegans topic meeting Development, Cell Biology and Gene Expression will be held July 13-17, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Visit the website for details.
‘Mind of a Worm’ is one of the most significant research papers published by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society over its 350 year history! Read more about it here.