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
Come to the webinars hosted by the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) to learn more about curation and data related to C. elegans and other major model organisms. The next webinar titled “Learn how the Alliance uses Artificial Intelligence in literature curation” will be held on April 17th, at noon ET/9am PT. Register by April 16 to receive the Zoom URL.
A huge thank you to all our community curators for their invaluable contributions to the ACKnowledge project! The updated Top 10 list is now available on WormBase—be sure to check it out!
Congratulations to Samanta Hernandez-Garcia for earning a spot in the Top 10!
The next Alliance webinar is scheduled for Thursday, March 20 at noon EDT (please note: the US is on Daylight Savings Time; if your region is not, it will be a hour earlier for you). This month’s topic is Disease annotations at the Alliance. Register by Wednesday March 19 (before midnight EDT please) to receive the Zoom link.
Interested in upcoming seminars? They’re posted on the Alliance Event Calendar Alliance of Genome Resources. Links to recordings of previous webinars are there too!
The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce Phase 2 of the 2025 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. See our fantastic list of 144 available MENTORS.
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, faculty members or students outside the US, who you think might be interested in this program.
With best wishes, The C. elegans Community Mentor Match committee for 2025