Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵

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For those in New York, Northeastern is hiring a full time teaching assistant professor at the NYC campus (formerly Marymount Manhattan College) for General Biology, General Biology labs, and a ‘Biology and Society’ course. Please apply asap and spread the word to those interested!

Assistant Professor - Biology in New York City, NY for Northeastern University

Exciting opportunity in New York City, NY for Northeastern University as a Assistant Professor - ...

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Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵

Mentee sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program

The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...

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With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.

Choosing rotations and a dissertation lab - Help, I'm a Scientist!

By David Fay Choosing a lab in which to carry out your PhD is admittedly one of the more important decisions you’ll make in your early scientific career. But it’s important to have some perspective. F...

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How do developmental pathways adjust when harsh environments cause delays or interruptions in development? 🧪🧬 C. elegans can enter the stress-resistant and developmentally arrested dauer diapause stage. Progenitor cells actively maintain multipotency during dauer. 🧵

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2w ago

FOXO/DAF-16 modulates the transcription factor ROR/NHR-23 and inhibits the let-7 microRNA to maintain multipotency during dauer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.18.739353v1

Yesterday we said goodbye to our technician and former undergrad Dante Ashih. He'll be starting his Biology PhD at the University of Wisconsin at Madison this fall. Dante developed the Wormtrails package for viewing C. elegans movement, and we can't wait to see the great science he explores next!

Excited to share that in mid-August I'll be opening the Castillo–Quan Laboratory (CORA Lab) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Ohio University! We study stress responses, homeostasis & healthy aging in C. elegans. Recruiting two PhD students for Aug 2027. Join us @ohiouniversity.bsky.social!

Worm friends 🪱 We need your video! Our C. elegans Mentor Match website has short videos from mentors and mentees sharing their experiences. Check it out, record your own video, and please share!

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Bittersweet day in the lab as we say goodbye to our technician and former undergrad, Meha Macwan. She’ll be starting her Biology PhD at Drexel University this fall, and I can’t wait to see all the wonderful things she does next.

This paper is now online at @currentbiology.bsky.social. This marks the end of my postdoc and I’ll be joining @imperiallifesci.bsky.social as Imperial College Research Fellow in October! 🎊 🥳🍾 www.cell.com/action/showP...

Ethan (Chee Kiang) Ewe@ethanewe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥 we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1

Mike and I recommend having a check-in with your Match and recording a testimonial together!

Javier Apfeld@javierapfeld.bsky.social · last mo.

Worm friends 🪱 We need your video! Our C. elegans Mentor Match website has short videos from mentors and mentees sharing their experiences. Check it out, record your own video, and please share!

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Do you want to support the next generation of C. elegans researchers? We are looking for mentors with C. elegans experience, including postdocs, faculty, and scientists outside academia, to share their knowledge and career advice with early career researchers. Sign up to become a mentor!

Mentor sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program - 2026

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well put! "...while Development's IF is modest, researchers in our field trust papers published in our journal as interesting, valuable and robust science that stands the test of time... It is our Academic Editors and the Development name that define our standards, not a number."

Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · 2mo ago

Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268

Want to follow your favorite small animal around? Maybe you'd like to also see it's environment at the same time? Or you'd want to see muscle activity but your commercial microscope doesn't have a large enough field-of-view? Meet Glowtracker! scholz-lab.github.io/GlowTracker/ Paper: rdcu.be/foISQ

My former undergad Juli Stanley gave an awesome PhD dissertation talk on how E. coli translates mRNAs that do not have a leader sequence (no Shine-Dalgarno 🤯)! It was such a joy to see them shine so brightly! We had a mini lab reunion too, with Juli and former grad student Jodie Schiffer.

C. elegans friends: If you participated in the mentor match program last year, we want your feedback on what worked, what didn't, and how to make the program better! Please fill out this survey: forms.gle/xYCF19saFfoj...

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The GSA gave me the opportunity to write an article in GENETICS reflecting on my journey as an immigrant in the USA and how those experiences have shaped my life and career. Thank you to all of my mentees, friends, and family who have supported me along the way 🙏 academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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Abstract. The Genetics Society of America Mentorship Award recognizes members of the scientific community for exceptional mentoring of geneticists at any c

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wormtagdb.rc.duke.edu is such a useful tool! 😍 I searched a few genes we are studying and found 3 strains that are going to be super useful for various projects in the lab. Already ordered these strains from the #Celegans Strain Center @cgc-worms.bsky.social.

Alliance of Genome Resources@alliancegenome.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WormTagDB: a systematic survey of endogenously tagged proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans and roadmap toward the tagged proteome academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name your fav film about music.

82-0! www.82-0.com/share?id=MjB...

It is also genuinely thrilling and exciting to discover something new. Every time when it happens, when you can feel all the fog clearing and the insight emerge is magic, like everything clicks into place. That pure feeling keeps me wanting to do research more than anything else. It’s the best.

What do I hope to accomplish by being a curiosity-driven scientist? To paraphrase the poet A. E. Housman: The purpose of science, art, and law is to set back the frontier of darkness.

Major lab website update: my profile picture is no longer from a previous geological era.

Fun read! Another classic example is Cynthia Kenyon's discovery that loss of the insulin receptor DAF-2 extends lifespan in C. elegans, which came out of the control for a clever mutant screen in which progeny of single F2s are sent into dauer with daf-2(ts) to track lifespan of the parent.

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hey worm people, if you have been a mentor or mentee in the C. elegans Mentor Match program, can you record a short video with advice to future participants? So far we have 3 videos, it would be nice to get to >20. Click on the link below to help us out!

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Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!

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One last piece of news to cap off the year.... the Lee lab is now funded by an ✨NSF CAREER✨!!! We'll explore how transgenerational inheritance affects the earliest decisions in C. elegans embryos AND build new CUREs for our first-gen students. 🪱🧬 This is how we feel about being funded! 👇

We're hiring a postdoc to develop and use custom optical instruments for measuring and manipulating neural activity in worms and flies. Please apply via interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/186001