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…
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…
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,…