Proposals are being solicited for the 20th International C. elegans Meeting. Workshops can be based on a specific scientific area, a technical approach applicable to various research topics, community resources, educational issues, or other topics of interest to the worm community. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2014.
New issue of The Worm Breeder's Gazette available
Dear Worm Researchers,
Volume 20, Number 1 of The Worm Breeder’s Gazette has been published. In addition to a meeting announcement, several new lab announcements, worm art, and worm humor, this issue contains several articles describing new or improved techniques. These include improvements in the use of whole genome sequencing for mutant identification, a report on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 to target cis-regulatory regions, a multiply fluorescent strain for outcrossing Million Mutation Project alleles and linkage mapping, a method to improve growth in primary cultures of C. elegans cells, and an improved method for preserving histological samples.
Please proceed to read the exciting pieces of this new issue, and we look forward to your contribution to our next one.
Thank you for your interest in The Worm Breeder’s Gazette.
Sincerely,
Jane
Worm Breeder's Gazette submission deadline
Dear Worm Researchers,
The deadline for submissions for the next issue of The Worm Breeder’s Gazette is Monday, March 10. The date is somewhat flexible, so if you need an extra day or two, please email me.
In addition to articles summarizing research results, we also welcome announcements, editorials, and artwork. We would also like to include articles describing the use of nematodes in teaching. In short, we will include anything that would be of interest to researchers or teachers of nematode biology.
Articles should be a single page in length and should be submitted through our web site: http://www.wormbook.org/wbg/. You should be able to register on the Gazette site, but it may take as much as a day before you receive email confirmation. If you have trouble registering, or don’t want to fool with it, please send your article to me and I will upload it for you.
Thank you for your interest in The Worm Breeder’s Gazette.
Sincerely,
Jane
OrthoList Online Tool
A simple new online tool to facilitate C. elegans <–> human orthology assignments, based on OrthoList is available here.
Enhanced RNAi library available from Source BioScience
The C.elegans RNAi library has been extended with 3,507 new supplementary bacterial clones and now targets around 87% of currently annotated C.elegans genes. Purchase the complete set of all clones or individual chromosome sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) which include the pre-existing and new supplemental strains. The complete supplementary sets of RNAi clones and individual chromosome suplementary sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) are also available to order for those who have previously purchased the pre-existing library.