Mentor Match Program: Mentee Application Phase
Thanks to the 88 people (!) who signed up as prospective mentors for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program for 2021. Here we announce the mentee phase of the program. For the 2021 match year, eligible mentees are postdocs or early career investigators. Please forward this to anyone you think may be interested.
Consistent with the impetus for this program, prospective mentees who are members of historically underrepresented or marginalized groups will be prioritized for mentor matches.
To be considered in the match, please fill out the survey before December 31.
The survey is designed to determine w...
Source: WormBase - December 15, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: The WormBoard Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
New chapter in WormBook, GENETICS – Starvation responses
Check out the new chapter in WormBook, GENETICS, Starvation Responses Throughout the Caenorhabditis elegans Life Cycle, by L. Ryan Baugh and Patrick Hu. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - December 3, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news paper of interest wormbook Source Type: news
New WormBoard Representatives and Election Cycle
With thanks to Oliver Hobert, Judy Yanowitz, Brent Derry, and Barbara Conradt who generated a new proposal, and to the members of Wormboard who discussed and approved it, we propose changes to the Board (docx) as indicated here. These changes are now captured in the updated Wormboard Charter that includes a list of the responsibilities of WormBoard for serving the community.
The new board format allows for additional representation. A call for nominations will be sent out in the usual ways (LabHeads list, WormBase news/blog, social media).
In addition to these changes, WormBoard discussed the possibility of addition...
Source: WormBase - November 30, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: The WormBoard Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
Paper of Interest: Application of Transcriptional Gene Modules to Analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans ’ Gene Expression Data
Check out this paper that describes a tool to interrogate genes, gene regulatory regions and gene sets in multiple ways. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 12, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication Featured Papers news paper of interest tools Source Type: news
WormBoard: Announcing the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program
I am very happy to announce roll out of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program v1.0! Many thanks to the other members of the first year mentor match committee (Meera Sundaram, Bruce Wightman, Heather Bennett, Adelita Mendoza, Brent Derry, Sander van den Heuvel) and to WormBoard.
Please see the Program Plan for updated logistics, instructions, and timeline for both prospective mentors and mentees.
Please also take 5 minutes now and do the following:
(1) If you are willing to act as a mentor, please fill out this short prospective MENTOR survey form. We would like to post the list of prospective mento...
Source: WormBase - November 11, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: The WormBoard Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
Video recordings of past WormBase webinars available
You can find links to the video recordings of past WormBase webinars on the registration form. Reserve your spot for the next webinar on Nov 20th at 10am PST. Scott Cain will explain all the cool features of JBrowse, the graphical genome browsing tool! Please remember to register using the above linked registration form. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 10, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news tutorials jbrowse webinar Source Type: news
Register for the upcoming WormBase webinar series!
WormBase curators will be presenting webinars on different topics relevant to users–datatypes, tools for data mining, and many more. For complete information and to register, use our form. Once you have registered, the link to join the webinar and other relevant information will be sent to you before each event via email. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 8, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news tutorials webinar Source Type: news
New chapter in WormBook, GENETICS – Behavioral States
Check out the new chapter in WormBook, GENETICS – Behavioral States by Steven W. Flavell, David M. Raizen and Young-Jai You. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 7, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news paper of interest wormbook Source Type: news
Announcing version 2 of the Author First Pass form
WormBase is happy to announce that we’ve released a new version of the Author First Pass (AFP) form. We’ve improved our methods for identifying relevant genes and alleles and added an FAQs section to help guide you through the process. Full details are available in the V2 Release Notes. Thank you for your participation and feedback; we look forward to seeing your future submissions!The URL for the V2 Release Notes link is: https://github.com/WormBase/author-first-pass#release-notes (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 25, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication new features news author first pass Source Type: news
Overview of WormBase, Sept 2020
If you’d like to get an overview of WormBase datatypes, tools, the Author first pass form and learn about Micropublication Biology, please take a look at the slides from a talk given by Chris Grove, a WormBase curator. This was presented at the Boston area worm meeting on Sept 23rd, 2020. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 23, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: meetings news tutorials Uncategorized wormbase Source Type: news
Service status update: sequence related widgets restored
Over the weekend the database that houses sequences at WormBase became unavailable. Any features that require sequence (such as the location or sequence widgets) started to fail. Apologies for the inconvenience. We’ve already put a few changes in place to prevent a repeat of this event. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 14, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news service status Source Type: news
Genome assemblies in WormBase and on the FTP site
For information on the different genome assemblies for C. elegans take a look at the “Genome Assemblies” widget on: https://wormbase.org/species/c_elegans#032–10
If you are looking for genome assemblies on our FTP site, please note that they are organized as follows: ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/species/c_elegans/assemblies/ covers the C. elegans assemblies for our legacy versions of the database from release WS100 to release WS260.
For the more recent and future files (covering releases WS237 to WS268), please see this page: ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/species/c_elegans/PRJNA13758/as...
Source: WormBase - September 9, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news genomes Source Type: news
Paper of Interest – The CeMbio resource
Check out the resource described in “CeMbio – The Caenorhabiditis elegans Microbiome Resource“. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 3, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news Featured Papers paper of interest Uncategorized research community Source Type: news
Report from WormBoard to the C. elegans community – August 2020
A new report from WormBoard to the C. elegans community is now available. Following up on WormBoard’s July 2020 message, the August 31, 2020 report addresses the recent community climate survey, details plans for a C. elegans community Mentor Match program, lists opportunities for undergraduate research, and more. You can read the full report on the WormBase Wiki. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 1, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
New chapter in WormBook, GENETICS on Protein Homeostatis
Check out the new chapter: Organismal Protein Homeostasis Mechanisms in WormBook, GENETICS, by Thorsten Hoppe and Ehud Cohen. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - August 10, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: external website news paper of interest wormbook Source Type: news
