WormBook in GENETICS

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The last three chapters of WormBook in GENETICS were published earlier this year.  I want to express my gratitude to all of the authors, section editors and advisory board members for bringing this project to fruition, and to the Genetics Society of America and the editors and staff of GENETICS for all of their support.  I encourage everyone to take a look at the wonderful compendium of knowledge of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans resulting from this community effort. Like the classic Cold Spring Harbor C. elegans books and the original WormBook published under the WormBase aegis at Caltech, I am confident that this collection of reviews will remain valuable for decades to come, for trainees and experienced C. elegans biologists alike.

Even though WormBook is officially completed, the Editor in Chief of GENETICS, Howard Lipshitz, has agreed that future reviews on C. elegans will be linked to the WormBook tab on the GENETICS/OUP website. He also has appointed me as a Consulting Editor for the journal to provide advice to the Senior Editors of the ‘Perspectives & Reviews’ section on ways to add new reviews of interest to the worm community.

Best regards,

Iva Greenwald

May 8th deadline for mentee sign-ups for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program!

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Please note that the May 8th deadline is close for sign-ups for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program – MENTEE sign-ups! Mentees, please sign up here. See our fantastic list of available mentors. Don’t miss this chance to participate and make a difference in the community!

-Andrea Calixto and Javier Apfeld
Co-Chairs, 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program

Change in gene summaries for WS294

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A gene summary is a brief description of the key functional aspects of a gene and appears in the “Overview” widget of every gene page in WormBase. Recently we changed the rules for inclusion of data such as large scale expression cluster data and protein domain data in gene summaries. When functional data as represented by Gene Ontology (GO) process, function or cellular component annotations are available for a gene, these are used to generate a gene summary. When no GO annotations are available for a gene, then functional data from the orthologous human gene is included in the gene summary. Further, if no tissue or cellular expression is available for the gene, expression cluster and protein domain data are included in the gene summary. Please see the microPublication that describes these updates to the gene summaries for C. elegans and other nematodes in the WS294 release of WormBase.

2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program – MENTEE sign-ups!

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The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce Phase 2 of the 2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program – MENTEE sign-ups! 

MENTEES can be postdocs or faculty members at any career stage. You can be both a MENTEE and a MENTOR of more junior researchers if appropriate.

MENTEES, please sign up here by December 31, 2022.

See our fantastic list of 80 available MENTORS to choose from here.

As a MENTEE, you can:

  • Be paired with a specific MENTOR and/or join a PEER MENTORING group
  • Get advice about the next steps in your career
  • Get a broader perspective from outside your specific lab and institution 
  • Benefit from the knowledge and experience of other C. elegans researchers who have navigated similar paths or challenges

For further information about the program, please see this link.

Please forward this email to any C. elegans postdocs or faculty members who you think might be interested in this program.

With best wishes,

– The C. elegans Community Mentor Match committee for 2022-23

Meera Sundaram 
Andrea Calixto Mohor
Heather Bennett
Brent Derry
Jon Hibshman
Massimo Hilliard
Sandhya Koushika
Jeff Medley
Dan Shaye
Sander van den Heuvel