C. elegans past, present and future: the not-so-humble worm

September 9-10 2003
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To celebrate the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz and John Sulston, for their discoveries made using the nematode C. elegans, a symposium will be held on September 10th 2003 in Cambridge, England, on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. There will also be an associated reception for the laureates and delegates on the evening of September 9th, to be held at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. These two locations have played crucial roles in the origin and expansion of C. elegans research.

In addition to the three Nobel Laureates, a group of internationally distinguished C. elegans scientists have accepted invitations to speak at this meeting. These speakers represent many of the major strands in C. elegans research. They have made important contributions in many different fields, including cell and developmental biology, gene control, neurobiology and muscle biology, aging, neurodegeneration and cell death, sex determination, gamete and germline development, differentiation and morphogenesis, light microscopy, genomics and bioinformatics.

Their presentations will illustrate the extraordinary power and utility of this model organism as a tool for investigating fundamental problems in biology.

LAUREATES

Sydney Brenner (Molecular Sciences Institute)

H. Robert Horvitz (MIT/HHMI)

John Sulston (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

SPEAKERS

Philip Anderson (University of Wisconsin)

Martin Chalfie (Columbia University, New York)

Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

Jonathan Hodgkin (University of Oxford)

Cynthia Kenyon (UC San Francisco)

Judith Kimble (University of Wisconsin/HHMI)

Barbara Meyer (UC Berkeley/HHMI)

James Priess (FHCRC Seattle/HHMI)

Robert Waterston (University of Washington)

Samuel Ward (University of Arizona)

John White (University of Wisconsin)

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Support for the meeting is being generously provided by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (UK).

Meeting organizers:

Patricia Kuwabara (WTSI, Cambridge), Jonathan Hodgkin (Oxford)

Mario de Bono (MRC-LMB), Judith Kimble (Madison)

Further details and registration information will be provided shortly.

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