Dr. Ralph Sommer (Max-Planck Institute for Biology, Tuebingen, Germany) will be in charge of approving and assigning names to P. pacificus genes. Please write directly to Dr. Sommer to make a formal request for P. pacificus gene name/s. A huge thank you to Dr. Sommer for taking on this responsibility!
Deadline to submit IWM 2025 abstract – March 6th!
Don’t miss the opportunity to share your work with this great community, submit your International Worm Meeting (IWM) 2025 abstracts soon! The March 6th deadline is approaching!

New top 10 community curators list for ACKnowledge data
Thanks to all our community curators for their contributions to the ACKnowledge project! The new top 10 list is available on WormBase, check it out!
New chapter about dendrite morphogenesis in WormBook, GENETICS
Check out the new chapter–Dendrite morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans by Maxwell Heiman and Hannes Bulow in WormBook, GENETICS.
GENETICS issue about Knowledgebases and Databases
Learn about the latest updates to the Alliance of Genome Resources and WormBase status and migration plans in papers published in the May issue of GENETICS!