Resources

C. elegans is a major model organism for biomedical research and for nematology research. Its 100 Mbp genome is complete, its developmental lineage is known to the cellular level, and the wiring diagram of its nervous system has been mapped out in detail.

Worm Papers Online
The Structure of the Nervous System of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by J.G. White, E. Southgate, J.N. Thomson and S. Brenner 1986. Courtesy WormAtlas Site Studies on the Development and Organisation of the Nervous System of Caenorhabditis elegans by R. M. Durbin 1987 HTML and PDF formats. C. elegans II (CSHL Press, 1997) Courtesy NCBI

C. elegans Web Sites

General Textpresso at the CalTech.   Leon Avery's site at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.   ElegansNet   Ahna Skop's C. elegans Gift Shop   Worm Breeder's Gazette Subscriptions The Genes The Genetic Nomenclature Guide The Genome Yuji Kohara's C. elegans EST database   NCBI/Worm Transcriptome Project   Yuji Kohara's Nematode Expression Database (NEXTDB)   The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC)   The Worm Proteome Database (WormPD).   The Sanger Centre's genome sequencing pages.   Washington University's genome sequencing pages. Worm Anatomy The WormAtlas Project   The Goldstein lab collection of C. elegans movies Large Scale Experiments Fabio Piano's RNAi Database (www.rnai.org)   The C. elegans Gene Knockout Consortium   Stuart Kim's C. elegans Microarray Center   C. elegans Structural Genomics Project

Other Resources
Please send all requests for C. elegans genomic clones to Audrey Fraser (aef@sanger.ac.uk) with a cc to Ratna Shownkeen (rs2@sanger.ac.uk); include a FedEx or DHL account number (valid from January 1, 2003).

C. elegans Meetings & Other Events
Date	Event	Location	Organizers
August 21-24, 2004	West Coast Worm Meeting	University of California, Santa Barbara	Organizer: Joel Rothman Program Committee: Morris Maduro, Dave Pilgrim, Bill Schafer
June 28-July 1, 2004	East Asia C elegans Meeting	Awaji Island, Japan	Head Organizer: Hitoshi Sawa Co-organizers: Asako Sugimoto, Junho Lee
June 11-June 13	Midwest Worm Meeting 2004	Kansas University, Lawrence, KS	Hosts: Matthew Buechner, Mike Herman, Erik Lundquist, Kathy Suprenant, Lisa Timmons
June 11-13, 2004	East Coast Worm Meeting	Yale University	Co-chairs: Frank Slack and Valerie Reinke
May 22-25, 2004	European Worm Meeting	Casino Kursaal, Interlaken, Switzerland	Head organizer: Fritz Müller Co-organizers: Paolo Bazzicalupo, Jean-Louis Bessereau, Anton Gartner, Pierre Gönczy, Gert Jansen, Alessandro Puoti, Alison Woollard
2005 International Meeting
June 25-29, 2005	Fifteenth International Worm Meeting	University of California at Los Angeles	Co-organizers: Monica Driscoll, Tim Schedl. Local organizer: Alex van der Bliek

Web Sites of Recent Meetings
June 29-July 3, 2003	14th International Worm Meeting	University of California at Los Angeles	Geraldine Seydoux, Stuart Kim, Alex van der Bliek
June 14-16, 2002	East Coast Regional Worm Meeting
June 28-30, 2002	Midwest Worm Meeting	Washington University in St. Louis	Kerry Kornfeld
August 6-8, 2002	The 3rd Japanese C. elegans Meeting	Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan	Shin Takagi
August 10-13, 2002	West Coast C. elegans Meeting	UCSD, San Diego, California, USA