Great to see this beautiful work published!

Pujol lab@pujol-lab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Spatial memory in tissue architecture: how a transient extracellular scaffold propagates positional information #aECM #Celegans @plos.org 🙏to talented Sophie Mazzoli @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr & great collaborations @dynamo-lab.bsky.social @meera-sundaram.bsky.social 🧵👇

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👉 3rd aECM club Apr 14th 10 am NYC-4 pm Paris #aECM invertebrate cuticle and molt cycle @gotworms.bsky.social @labgrosshans.bsky.social program sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl... 👉 join our Slack forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pD...

Sad to see that Don passed, he was a legend and a big part of why our community is so special. 🤯 20% of the collection?!!

@cgc-worms.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The worm community has lost a true legend with the passing of Don Moerman. Don's impact on C. elegans research is beyond measure. A friend to many of us here in MN, his work has been invaluable, contributing >5,400 strains (VC & DM) to the CGC, 20% of our collection!

Great to see this out. Practical guidance on how to use protein depletion systems in C. elegans

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this review in #GENETICS from @gotworms.bsky.social, @cgc-worms.bsky.social, and others describing the first release in the Curated Special Collections for #Celegans, highlighting protein degradation systems and how to achieve targeted protein deletion in #nematode #worms. buff.ly/lEaf2T2

Congratulations to the legendary scientist Judith Kimble!!! We stand on the shoulders of giants. #womeninSTEM #celegans

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

Recombinant monoclonal antibodies to detect tubulin post-translational modifications work beautifully in #celegans neurons and cilia. @kjverhey1.bsky.social shared ONE ML of each rMAb! www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Blasius...Verhey 2025 Cytoskeleton: 10.1002/cm.70011. PMID: 40650552

I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

Don’t forget to register for the C. elegans topic meeting June 10-14 in Madison, WI. Early bird registration deadline this Friday 2/27! uwmadison.eventsair.com/mapsdev26/

Come join us! This meeting is going to be awesome!

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Worm peeps: a twofer meeting in Madison! See you at the Union terrace! MAPSS + DevCell June 10-14, 2026 Joint Meeting between C. elegans Metabolism, Aging, Pathogenesis, Stress and Small RNAs & C. elegans Development Cell Biology & Gene Expression #celegans

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

Surojit Sural@surojitsural.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center Curated Special Collections: a guide to protein degradation systems academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

What tools do we need to start engineering #aging and #longevity ? A🧵about something we've been cooking up in lab with Jeremy Vicencio at the @crg.eu : technology that lets us reach inside living animals and precisely dial multiple proteins' levels up and down. 1/10

Time to vote for our GSA officers! Please repost

Genetics Society of America@genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

☑️ GSA Board Elections are open—we're calling our members to make their voice heard! Help shape the future of our Society by voting for the next Vice President, Treasurer, and three Directors. Cast your ballot by November 30, 2025: buff.ly/TAENAkq

Cool! Thanks @embojournal.org for this great News and Views on our recent work characterizing how a conserved protein complex times C. elegans molting! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Such a fun collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social @partchlab.bsky.social

Old cogs, new clocks: a conserved protein complex controls developmental and circadian timing | The EMBO Journal

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Shared mechanisms across distinct biological clocks: Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social , Helge Grosshans @labgrosshans.bsky.social & collaborators find the nematode homologs of mammalian circadian clock proteins PERIOD & CK1 to control developmental timing in worms www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

So excited to see this work out! This was one of the first projects when I started my lab! An awesome collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social and @partchlab.bsky.social!

Grosshans Lab@labgrosshans.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And the next one: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00585-z . Super-fun collaboration with @partchlab.bsky.social & @gotworms.bsky.social to find similarities between developmental and circadian clocks – supported by @fmiscience.bsky.social Facilities and, financially, @snsf.ch and @erc.europa.eu . 1/n

Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!

Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

For the life of me, I cannot fathom the rationale for any of this. Utter wanton destruction of one of the best research ecosystems in the world.

Liz Essley Whyte@lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

There is so much cool #aECM work going on but most of the researchers don’t know or talk to each other; this is an attempt to change that! Link below

Pujol lab@pujol-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions If you are interested 👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97 @meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social

Am so excited about this series. The virtual worm skin workshop was one of the best meetings for my lab and getting more model systems will be🔥

Pujol lab@pujol-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions If you are interested 👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97 @meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social

Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae. 🪱🍻 (including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)

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Meera Sundaram@meera-sundaram.bsky.social · last yr.

Catching up on more #aECM at #worm25 by watching the online videos: Physiology1 Talk23 from Jonathan Hodgkin provided evidence that, via social interactions, worms can transfer surface glycans (« BIM ») between each other to affect pathogen sensitivity. So cool!

Better late than never, made it to #Worm25 late last night. Such a great morning catching up with old friends and seeing some great science!

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

Meera Sundaram@meera-sundaram.bsky.social · last yr.

Up on biorxiv! The tour de force protein tagging atlas for the #Celegans cuticle #aECM - from Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social and Andrew Chisholm labs. So many beautiful images of cuticle collagen substructures !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s baby turkey season! @ucscscience.bsky.social

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!! Crazy game. Can’t believe they scored two goals in final two min with goalie pulled and won it in double OT!

Really excited about this collaborative work and a great experience with Review Commons

Review Commons@reviewcommons.org · last yr.

A conserved chronobiological complex times C. elegans development. Latest research from the Ward lab @gotworms.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and Grosshans lab @labgrosshans.bsky.social @fmiscience.bsky.social

How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Glad I could play a small part in this cool story!

Pujol lab@pujol-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper out @plos.org @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social Fantastic collaborations 👏Antonina Andreeva #EBI-EMBL, Claire Valotteau @DyNaMo @felix_rico, Andrew Chisholm, Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social, and great discussions with @meera-sundaram.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...