Research groups
British Columbia is home to eleven prominent research groups that mainly use C. elegans as a model organism. Their lab homepages and research interests are listed below, and e-mail addresses can be found on the Contact page.
University of British Columbia
Knockout consortium group and functional genomics of muscle.
Mechanisms of recombination and DNA repair.
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour and memory.
Developmental pathways; Dauer larvae.
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Neurobiology; neuron pathfinding.
Functional genomics; expression analysis.
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of asymmetric cell division.
Bioinformatics; genomics; genome evolution and organisation.
Functional genomics of cilia; ciliopathies; actin and tubulin biogenesis.
Trinity Western University
Neuron pathfinding and outgrowth.
Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (UBC)
Lipid regulation.
Other groups that also use C. elegans as a model system
- . Bioinformatics, functional and comparative genomics.
- . Function and control of voltage-gated channels.
