Check out the latest chapter of WormBook in Genetics, Cell Biology of the Caenorhabditis elegans Nucleus, by Orna Cohen-Fix and Peter Askjaer.
Neuroscience 2017 Symposia, Minisymposia, and Social Issues Roundtable submissions now open
The Neuroscience 2017 Symposia, Minisymposia, and Social Issues Roundtable submission form is open now through January 6. Encourage your colleagues to submit a proposal. The two-year speaker list applies here as well. The committee will review the proposals in January in preparation for the February 6-7 Program Committee Meeting.
Check out the latest chapter in WormBook in GENETICS!
Check out the latest chapter in WormBook in GENETICS–‘Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Approaches for Mutation Mapping and Identification in Caenorhabditis elegans‘ by Maria Doitsidou, Sophie Jarriault and Richard J. Poole.
Call for IWM 2017 Workshops … and Worm Videos
Website: The website for the C. elegans international meeting, 2017 is up.
Workshops: The deadline for proposing a workshop is 15 November 2016: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/celeganswkshp
WormShow: We regret to announce that Morris and Curtis have retired from doing the Worm Show. With the guidance of Ahna Skop we are planning a new format WormShow involving community submissions of videos or other performance art. More details will be available later on the meeting website but in the mean time please think about participating by producing a video!
–Marie-Anne Felix and Andrew Chisholm
Obtain gene data using SimpleMine
You can query certain types of gene data such as expression in tissue and life stage, RNAi phenotypes, allele phenotypes and gene descriptions using the SimpleMine tool. You can paste in a list of gene names of interest or upload a file with gene names.