2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program – MENTEE sign-ups!
The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce Phase 2 of the 2023 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 by December 31, 2022.
See our fantastic list of 80 available MENTORS to choose from here.
As a MENTEE, you can:
Be paired with a specific MENTOR and/or join a PEER MENTORING groupGet advice about the next steps in your careerGet a broader perspective from outside your specific lab an...
Source: WormBase - December 7, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community news Uncategorized mentor match initiative Source Type: news
Register for the UK Worm Meeting 2023!
The upcoming UK Worm Meeting is hosted at the University of East Anglia on 13th January 2023. This one-day event will bring together researchers working with C. elegans or researchers working with other nematodes who use shared resources, technologies and expertise. The event will cover a variety of topics including ageing, developmental biology and gene regulation.
The abstract submission deadline is 9th December 2022. Please send your abstracts directly to worm.meeting@uea.ac.uk after completing your registration. When submitting your abstract, please indicate if you want to be considered for a short talk...
Source: WormBase - November 23, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community meetings news Uncategorized uk worm meeting Source Type: news
Two new chapters in WormBook, GENETICS
Check out these two recent WormBook chapters in the journal GENETICS:
1. “Visualizing and quantifying molecular and cellular processes in Caenorhabditis elegans using light microscopy” by Pavak Shah, Zhirong Bao and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
2. “Mitochondrial dysfunction, aging, and the mitochondrial unfolded protein response in Caenorhabditis elegans” by Cole Haynes and Siegfried Hekimi. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 8, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: Featured Papers news paper of interest wormbook WormBook GENETICS Source Type: news
2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
Dear Worm Community,
The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce the roll out of the 2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program!
As a MENTOR, you can:
Share your knowledge and expertise to facilitate the professional growth of young C. elegansresearchers; Establish new connections with talented scientists;Help foster a diverse community of worm scientists around the globe;Gain exposure to broad and diverse perspectives;
For further information about the program, please see this link.
If you are willing to serve as a MENTOR, please sign up here before December 1*.
*Mentors can be pos...
Source: WormBase - October 31, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Uncategorized mentor match initiative Source Type: news
Two new species join the Alliance of Genome Resources!
Check out the latest new release (5.3.0) of the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) which includes two new species–Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropocalis and data refreshes for many data types. The Alliance features standardized and harmonized views for data such as disease models, Gene Ontology (GO), orthology, genetic interactions and many more, for a total of 9 species including C. elegans, human and the two new frog species. Learn more about this release via the 5.3.0 Release Notes. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 28, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news release notes Alliance of Genome Resources Source Type: news
New Author First Pass release marks the transition to ACKnowledge!
WormBase is excited to announce that the Author First Pass project received support from the National Library of Medicine and is now officially known as ACKnowledge (Author Curation to Knowledgebase). This change reflects our commitment to expanding artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced community curation to capture more detailed experimental findings and to introduce our curation pipeline to additional model organism communities and their respective knowledgebases.
While busy transitioning our project and enhancing our AI methods, we also implemented further improvements to the current pipeline based on continuing valu...
Source: WormBase - October 28, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community new features news ACKnowledge author first pass Source Type: news
WS286 genome browser
The new genome browser software is a live, in-page genome browser that you can add tracks to, pan, zoom and do a variety of things JBrowse 1 could do without leaving the page. If you’d like a full page JBrowse 2, you can click on the link just above the genome browser, or if you’d like to use JBrowse 1, you can click on the “Legacy” link just below JBrowse 2 to get the old JBrowse 1 image and link back. Please let us know if you have any comments or questions by writing to help@wormbase.org. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 27, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: new features news tutorials Uncategorized jbrowse jbrowse2 Source Type: news
End-of-life status for GBrowse; to be retired at the end of 2022
GBrowse — the original genome browser at WormBase — has reached an end-of-life support status. Accordingly, we plan to retire GBrowse from the WormBase website at the end of 2022.JBrowse, the successor to GBrowse, has been the primary genome browser at WormBase for many years. Recently, we released JBrowse2 which fills in the final remaining functionality gaps that existed with GBrowse.
GBrowse was a critical initial component of the Generic Model Organism Database project whose objective was to create modular software components for online genomic resources. Ahead of its time in many ways, GBrowse launche...
Source: WormBase - October 25, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news Source Type: news
International C. elegans conference 2023 website available
The 2023 International C. elegans conference is happening! Important dates to note are here. WormBase looks forward to interacting with its users and participating in many events. Watch this space for more information. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 19, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community external website news meetings worm meeting 2023 Source Type: news
The clones are back
Good news for those of you using the C. elegans libraries held at Wellcome Sanger Institute – they have just restarted distribution of the C. elegans clone libraries they hold. The webpage is currently under development, so please email bioresource@sanger.ac.uk directly with your requests. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 10, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Magdalena Zarowiecki Tags: brief communication external website news clones sanger tools Source Type: news
Please complete this one question survey about #worm23 for the GSA!
The Genetics Society of America wants to hear from you! How do you plan to attend #Worm23 in Glasgow, Scotland? Please take this one question survey to help GSA plan for the international conference. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 26, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news Source Type: news
Please complete the WormBase 2022 User Survey
Please help us in our curation and development efforts by completing a very brief 10 question user survey.
WormBase 2022 User Survey
Respondents can optionally enter for a drawing for highly coveted WormBase merch! (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 11, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news Source Type: news
Service status update: expression widget up and running
Please note that the expression widget on WormBase gene pages has been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience and thanks again for your patience. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 10, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news service status expression data Source Type: news
Analysis refresh of Brugia malayi
WormBase build WS285 contains an analysis refresh of the Brugia malayi genome, so – expect, for example, new and better homologs and expression data. And did you know? – WormBase contains 9 species in addition to C. elegans, all of which have unique manually curated data and gene models. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 9, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Magdalena Zarowiecki Tags: brief communication new features news release notes Uncategorized brugia malayi expression data genome update WS285 Source Type: news
Strain data update from CGC
WormBase regularly gets data from leading stock centers such as the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) and National Bioresource Project (NBRP) . Release WS285 contains an extra-large update, with more than 1,500 new strains imported from the CGC. Perhaps there is one that is the perfect study object for you? (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 9, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Magdalena Zarowiecki Tags: brief communication new features news release notes Uncategorized cgc data update strain WS285 Source Type: news
