May 20: One-day symposium celebrating Don Moerman’s career and retirement!

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To the International Worm Community –

We are pleased to announce that we will hold a one-day symposium on May 20th, 2022, 8:50 am-5:40 pm (PDT), celebrating Dr. Don Moerman’s retirement. 

Don has made an enormous contribution to the C. elegans research community by leading a knock-out consortium, Million Mutation Project, among other things.

We have a spectacular list of invited speakers who have a long-term scientific relationship with Don. 

The symposium is a hybrid event held at the Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia. 

Please join us online via the following live streaming link.
https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c51aa0c9-7174-47f1-9196-ae8901676d86

We will take Q&A from the live-streaming audience using Slido.com. A code will be announced at the event.

(Please be reminded that we may not be able to take questions from Slido due to time constraints.)
https://www.sli.do/

We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Sincerely,

Kota Mizumoto and Kenji Sugioka
Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia

For miRNA fans

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For miRNA fanatics out there, we have added 90 miRNA gene clusters from MirGeneDB to the C. elegans annotation in release WS284. This complements the 20 clusters (800 objects) which were already there, making the WormBase miRNA collection possibly the most complete in the world. You can access the miRNAs through the web pages https://wormbase.org/search/all/miRNA, or through JBrowse tracks “Curated Genes(noncoding)” e. g. And don’t forget WormBase also has an impressive collection of other non-coding RNAs as well; circRNAs, lincRNAs, piRNAs, snRNA, snoRNAs, precursors and many more. Happy investigating!

Abstract submission is now open for C. elegans Development Meeting

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Abstract submission is now open for the 2022 C. elegans Development, Cell Biology, and Gene Expression meeting.

Meeting information: August 11-14, Madison WI
Deadline: May 27 for abstracts to be selected for talks 
Website: http://conferences.union.wisc.edu/cedevelopment/

CeNeuro 2022 will finally take place in-person in July!

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Dear friends of worm neurobiology, 

After a long corona break it is time to meet and discuss again!
CeNeuro 2022 will finally take place as an in-person meeting at the University of Vienna July 24-27, 2022! Register here.

It would be great to see as many of you as possible in Vienna this summer, forward this link to interested colleagues, students, and postdocs.

Remember these deadlines:
Registration deadline will be May 22nd  
Abstract submission deadline will be May 15th

Best regards,
The organizers of C. elegans Neuro 2022