New issue of The Worm Breeder's Gazette available

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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

WormBook: New chapters and personnel

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WormBook experienced some staff changes in the last couple of months. WormBook Editor Lisa Girard and Program Developer and Web Publisher Tristan Fiedler left WormBook in July and August. Jane Mendel, a WormBook author and Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at Caltech, joined WormBook as the new Editor. During the transition period, WormBook expanded the Post-embryonic development section with a new chapter Dauer.