Are you interested in conducting a workshop at the International Worm Meeting this summer? Are there workshops that you would like to see held? Please contact Chris Li ([email protected]) or David Greenstein ([email protected]) with your ideas.
New release of WormBase: WS197
WormBase has been updated to the WS197 release of the database [release notes].
New release of WormBase: WS195
WormBase has been updated to the WS195 release of the database.
Martin Chalfie wins Nobel Prize for GFP in C. elegans
Martin Chalfie (with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien) has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of GFP in C. elegans. This is the third Nobel Prize awarded for research on C. elegans in the last six years.
Award-winning C. elegans biologists.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (with David Baulcombe) have won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on small regulatory RNAs, while Susan Mango has won a MacArthur Fellowship for work on the genomics of organogenesis.