Welcome to the British Columbia C. elegans (BCe) Research Community website. The province of BC ("The Best Place on Earth") has a thriving C. elegans research community consisting of over 10 different research labs focussed on a wide variety of important biological and biomedical research areas. The BCe research labs are concentrated in the Greater metropolitan area, at the (UBC), (SFU), and (TWU). BCe researchers fom a lively and interactive community with regular local VanWoRM presentations and many productive collaborations.
Latest news
- March 26, 2009. The schedule for the Seattle-Vancouver Worm Meeting is now posted.
- Feb. 14, 2008. Seattle-Vancouver Worm Meeting will be held on April 17th, 2009 at the University of Washington.
- Nov. 26, 2008. GExplore: a fast and useful online tool introduced by Harald Hutter for C. elegans data-mining; try it at (also listed under Links & Resources).
- Oct. 19, 2008. Incorporated the VanWoRM website into this BCe site. See the new VanWoRM-specific section.
- Oct. 16, 2008. New Contact form added to simplify much-wanted feedback on the site (thank you, Penny Ng from the Chen lab!)
- Oct. 14, 2008. Marty Chalfie and two other scientists win the Nobel prize for their
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