The poster abstract deadline for the C. elegans topic meeting in Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function and Behavior has been extended! Submissions will be accepted through the end of the day on Friday, May 23. All grad student and postdoc posters will be eligible for poster prizes. Submit your abstract here
Abstracts due today for 2014 C. elegans Topic Meeting!
The 2014 C. elegans “Topics” Meeting, covering Aging, Metabolism, Pathogenesis, Stress, and Small RNAs, will be held July 10-13, 2014 on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Abstracts are due today (May 5th)! Abstracts can be submitted at this site.
WormBase and the "Heartbleed" security issue
Recently, a serious security gap was identified in the software that provides the “secure” component of many websites. Called “Heartbleed“, this issue could possibly affect upwards of 2/3 of websites. Exploits of this issue leave no trace making it particularly vicious.
The WormBase website was also affected.
We have applied recommended security patches and are no longer vulnerable to this issue. We strongly encourage all registered users of WormBase to change their passwords.
Read more about Heartbleed on the NY Times or the original report documenting the issue.
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
Human disease model data in WormBase
You don’t have to look anywhere else to see if the gene of your interest is a genetic model for human disease! Both manually curated and orthology-based human disease related data for genes is presented on the gene page in the the ‘Overview’ section and in the ‘Human Diseases’ widget in the side-bar. This data indicates whether the gene is an ‘Experimental model’ for a human disease based on experimental evidences from the manually curated literature, or a ‘Potential model’ based on orthology with a human gene/s. You can also search by a disease term (DO term) from the autocomplete search box at the top of every web page, eg., ‘Alzheimer’s disease’. Currently, over 250 genes have been manually curated, for their relevance to human disease and several hundred genes are flagged as potential models, based on orthology to human disease genes. The relevant human genes from the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database and associated diseases are displayed as well. Currently we are working to improve disease displays and will continue to expand this data. Please let us know if we have missed a published experimental disease model in C. elegans!