This one is for all nerds who love the small worm and can’t stop working with them! (a poem by Nikita Jhaveri) I am a happy free-living wormProducing both egg and spermWhom scientists use to confirmUndiscovered theories and reaffirmMy transparent…
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2020 June 19
Like all other worm meetings this year, C. elegans evolution meeting will be held virtually . The dates are June 24-25. The schedule sounds exciting with more than 40 talks and 40 posters. There will be 200+ participants. There are…
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…
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…
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…