2002 European Worm Meeting

1. Regulation of Cul-3 Neddylation is essential for SCFCul-3 activity during mitosis in C. elegans
   Lionel Pintard, Thimo Kurz, Sarah Glaser, John Willis, Bruce Bowerman, Matthias Peter
2. sas-1, a gene required for centrosome duplication in one-cell stage C.elegans embryos
   Marie Delattre, Pierre Gönczy
3. The Ran GTPase cycle is essential for spindle formation and nuclear envelope assembly in living Caenorhabditis elegans embryos
   Peter Askjaer, Eva Hannak, Anthony A. Hyman, Iain W. Mattaj
4. The role of lin-5 in chromosome segregation and cleavage plane specification
   Ridgely Fisk, Dayalan Srinivasan, Huihong Xu, Sander van den Heuvel
5. apo-5, a paternal gene involved in mitotic spindle orientation and positioning in the one-cell Caenorhabditis elegans embryo
   Sandra Encalada, Rebecca Lyczak, Bruce Bowerman
6. Orientation and polarization of the mitotic spindle in the embryonic cell P1
   José-Eduardo Gomes, Bruce Bowerman
7. ZYG-8 and TAC-1 are required for proper microtubule behaviour in one-cell stage C.elegans embryos
   Jean-Michel Bellanger, Pierre Gönczy
8. Positioning the cleavage furrow in C. elegans embryos
   Reinhard Dechant, Alper Romano, Michael Glotzer
9. chp-1, a CHORD domain containing protein required for early embryonic polarity
   Peder Zipperlen, Julie Ahringer
10. Identification of new genes required for apical sorting in epithelial cells
    S. Liégeois, G. Michaux, G. Belliard, ,A. Janoshazi, Michel Labouesse
11. The putative actin binding protein ERM-1 is required for correct localization of the apical junction in the C.elegans intestine
    Daniela van Fürden, Carin Theres, Gisela Helbig, Olaf Bossinger
12. Multiple regulators of actin dynamics modulate cadherin function during hypodermal morphogenesis
    Jonathan Pettitt, Ian D. Broadbent
13. plexin-1 is required for attraction and repulsion of cells in the epidermis of C.elegans
    Gratien Dalpé, Lijia W. Zhang, Hong Zheng, Joseph G. Culotti
14. One gene for two distinct plakins that provide outer and inner resistance to mechanical stress
    Michel Labouesse, J. M. Bosher, B.-S. Hahn, R. Legouis, A. Gansmuller, A. Chisholm, Ann M. Rose
15. Evidence of a role for the C. elegans COPII complex in cuticle secretion
    Brett Roberts, Iain Johnstone
16. Role of C. elegans pdi-3 in extracellular matrix assembly
    Sylvain Eschenlauer, Antony Page
17. Specific aspartyl and calpain proteases are required for neurodegeneration in C. elegans.
    Popi Syntichaki, Nektarios Tavernarakis
18. The Snail-like zinc finger DNA-binding protein CES-1 is a direct regulator of egl-1 transcription
    Marion Thellmann, Julia Hatzold, Barbara Conradt
19. Regulation of programmed cell death by the two C. elegans BH3-only proteins EGL-1 and CED-13
    Nicole Wittenburg, Shai Shaham, Björn Schumacher, Anton Gartner, Simon Tuck, Barbara Conradt
20. Caenorhabditis elegans HUS-1 is a DNA damage checkpoint protein required for genome stability and induction of EGL-1
    E. Randal Hofmann, Stuart Milstein, Simon J. Boulton, Jennifer Ye, Jen J. Hofmann, Lilli Stergiou, Anton Gartner, Marc Vidal, Michael O. Hengartner
21. Does the DNA damage checkpoint shorten lifespan in C. elegans?
    Shawn Ahmed, Iuval Clejan, Arno Alpi, Anton Gartner
22. Characterisation of MUS-81, an XPF-like endonuclease required for genome stability
    Nigel J. O'Neil, Matthew Tomlinson, Jorge Vialard, Alan Coulson, Patricia E. Kuwabara
23. Recent changes and improvements to the WormBase database
    Keith Bradnam, WormBase Consortium
24. Access to C. elegans resources at the EBI
    Eleanor Whitfield, Rolf Apweiler
25. Sequence analysis supports the interpretation, based on reporter gene data, that there are many pseudogenes amongst the annotated C.elegans genes
    Ian A. Hope
26. The C. elegans orfeome cloning project : version 1.0
    Jérôme Reboul, Philippe Vaglio, Jean-François Rual, Philippe Lamesch, Laurent Jacotot, Monica Martinez, Christopher Armstrong, Nicolas Bertin, Alban Chesneau, Troy Moore, Jim Hartley, Mike Brasch, Hongmei Lee, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, David E Hill, Marc Vidal
27. A genome wide RNAi screen
    Julie Ahringer, Ravi S. Kamath, Andrew G. Fraser, Yan Dong, Gino Poulin, Peder Zipperlen, Monica Gotta, Natalie Le Bot, Sergio Moreno
28. Characterization of Mos1-mediated mutagenesis
    Jean-Louis Bessereau, Thomas Boulin
29. Improvement of the biolistic transformation of C. elegans
    Ralf Schnabel, Cathrin Struck
30. Homologous gene targeting in C. elegans
    Eugene Berezikov, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
31. rrf-3, a C. elegans strain with increased sensitivity to RNAi
    Femke Simmer, Julie Ahringer, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
32. Enhanced Analytical Performance of the C. elegans Flow Sorter COPAS BIOSORT: Automated Re-analysis of Populations in Multi-well Plates and Reading of Axially Distributed Positional Fluorescent Signals
    Johan Geysen, Steve Alam, Anthony Ferrante, Peter Kalutkewitz, Peter Van Osta, Susan Zusman
33. The rhomboid homolog rom-1 is involved in the anchor cell-independent induction of vulval cell fates
    Amit Dutt, Stefano Canevascini, Erika Fröhli, Alex Hajnal
34. The Pumilio protein puf-8 negatively regulates vulval induction
    Gopal Battu, Erika Fröhli, Alex Hajnal
35. LIN-39 represses EFF-1-dependent cell membrane fusion in C. elegans
    Benjamin Podbilewicz, Gidi Shemer
36. spr-1, a suppressor of presenilin, encodes a conserved transcriptional repressor that may play a general role in LIN-12/Notch signalling
    Sophie Jarriault, Iva Greenwald
37. Loss of spr-5 bypasses sel-12 defects by stage-specific derepression of hop-1.
    S. Eimer, Bernard Lakowski, R. Donhauser, Ralf Baumeister
38. The Axin-like protein PRY-1 is a negative regulator of a canonical Wnt pathway in C. elegans
    Damien Y.M. Coudreuse, Marco C. Betist, Sandra van de Water, Danica Zivkovic, Rik Korswagen
39. Maintenance of embryonic stem cell identity in the germline blastomeres of C. elegans
    R. Ciosk, M. DePalma, Jim Priess
40. t1530 affects the development of pharynx and body wall muscle and the phagocytosis of cell death
    Ingo Büssing, Titus Kaletta, Henning Schmidt, Heinke Schnabel, Ralf Schnabel
41. Genetic analysis of mab-9 regulation during embryonic development
    Roger Pocock, Michael Mitsch, Sara Maxwell, Julie Ahringer, Alison Woollard
42. Evolution of Hox gene function in C. elegans
    Tibor Vellai, Fritz Müller
43. Ray formation and the evolution of nematode Hox proteins
    Arturo Gutierrez, Ralf J. Sommer
44. Evolution of vulval patterning mechanisms: studies in Oscheius sp. 1 CEW1
    Marie-Anne Félix, M.-L. Dichtel, S. Louvet-Vallée
45. Phylogeny and ontogeny of free-living and parasitic nematodes
    Einhard Schierenberg, Vera Lahl, Magdalena Laugsch, Thomas Goedde
46. Zag-1, a zinc finger homeobox transcription factor acting late in neuronal differentiation
    Irene Wacker, Edward M. Hedgecock, Harald Hutter
47. The axon trajectory of the M2 pharyngeal neurons may be established in part via a growth cone-independent mechanism
    Marc Pilon, Catarina Mörck, Claes Axäng
48. Classical cadherin-catenin complexes and the developing C. elegans nervous system
    Ian D. Broadbent, Jonathan Pettitt
49. A motoneuron-derived signal is required for differentiation of post-synaptic domains at GABAergic neuromuscular junctions in C. elegans
    Christelle Gally, Jean-Louis Bessereau
50. Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are required for efficient neurotransmission in C. elegans
    Giovanni M. Lesa, M. Thomas Clandinin, Claudia Rudolph, Giampietro Schiavo
51. Cellular and genetic analysis of salt adaptation in C. elegans
    Gert Jansen, Suzanne Rademakers
52. tpa-1, a gene encoding a protein kinase C subunit, is a downstream target of G12-mediated signaling in C. elegans
    Celine Moorman, Alexander M. van der Linden, Edwin Cuppen, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
53. c. elegans CREB mutants show defects in dauer formation and in behaviors that are coupled to food sensation
    Mark Alkema, Bob Horvitz
54. Antagonistic signalling pathways in neurons exposed to the body fluid regulate social feeding in C. elegans
    Mario de Bono, Juliet Coates
55. In vivo imaging of mechanoreceptor function
    William Schafer, Rex Kerr, Hiroshi Suzuki, Christian Frokjar-Jensen
56. Phenotypic plasticity of dauer larva formation in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Mark E. Viney, M.P. Gardner, J.A. Jackson
57. Sex differences in the neuroendocrine regulation of development and lifespan
    Diana McCulloch, Veerle Rottiers, Adam Antebi, David Gems
58. DIN-1, a putative DAF-12 coregulator important for the C.elegans dauer diapause
    Andreas H. Ludewig, Corinna Kober-Eisermann, Cindy Weitzel, Alexander Stein, Adam Antebi
59. Molecular Identification of Transcriptional Targets of the DAF-16 Winged HelixTranscription Factor
    Joshua J. McElwee, James H. Thomas
60. The circadian clock of C. elegans: towards a molecular genetic and pharmacological analysis
    Fred Kippert, David S. Saunders, Mark L. Blaxter
61. Analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans mutants resistant to infection by Microbacterium nematophilum
    Hannah Nicholas, Jonathan Hodgkin
62. Mutations in a cyclic nucleotide gated channel alter the response to pathogenic M. nematophilum bacteria
    Karen J. Yook, Jonathan A. Hodgkin
63. Inducible innate immune defences in C. elegans; a TGF connection
    C. Léopold Kurz, Gustavo Mallo, Samuel Granjeaud, Yuji Kohara, Jonathan Ewbank
64. Genetic analysis of systemic RNAi in C. elegans - An RDE-1/Argonaute protein defective in a natural isolate of C. elegans
    Marcel Tijsterman, Kristy L. Okihara, Femke Simmer, Rene F. Ketting, Karen Thijssen, Ronald H. A. Plasterk
65. The roles of developmental arrest, phosphoinositides, Type II PIP kinase and DAF-16 in the larval response to oxidative stress
    David Weinkove, David R. Jones, Jonathan R. Halstead, Ronald H. A. Plasterk, Nullin Divecha
66. Xenobiotically induced cytochrome P450 gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Ralph Menzel, Matthias Roedel, Rudolf Achazi
67. The C. elegans MAP kinase phosphatase LIP-1 is required for the G2/M cell cycle arrest in developing oocytes
    Alex Hajnal, Thomas Berset
68. A putative LET-418 interacting protein plays a role during germ line development
    Karin Brunschwig, Chantal Wicky, Myriam Passannante, Fritz Mueller
69. The role of cdc-25.2 during embryogenesis
    Andy Green, Christina Christoforou, Neville Ashcroft
70. The role of chk-1 during early development
    Neville Ashcroft, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos
71. Identification of genes involved in dauer larva morphogenesis by systematic RNA interference
    Bettina Schulze, Stephan Fröde, Kaja Reisner, Ekkehard Schulze
72. Getting into the function of the nematode homologue of Eps8
    Assunta Croce, Giuseppe Cassata, Anna Elisabetta Salcini, Maria Grazia Malabarba, Paolo Bazzicalupo, Ralf Baumeister, Pier Paolo di Fiore
73. Formal modeling, simulation and analysis of C. elegans development
    Na'aman Kam, Rami Marelly, Irun R. Cohen, David Harel, Amir Pnueli, Michael J. Stern, Albert Hubbard
74. Studying telomere replication in C. elegans
    Bettina Meier, Yan Liu, Jonathan Hodgkin, Shawn C. Ahmed
75. Searching for mechanisms of neuronal synchrony in the convulsing worm
    Allyson V. McCormick, James H. Thomas
76. Genetic and biochemical approaches to study modulation of neurotransmitter release
    Stephen Nurrish, Cheryl Copelman, Paul Morrison, Iwan Evans, Sarah Woolner
77. Gonadal and hormonal signals that regulate life span in C. elegans
    Veerle Rottiers, Diana McCulloch, David Gems, Kiyoji Nishiwaki, Adam Antebi
78. DNA damage transcriptional responses in C.elegans
    L. Stergiou, E.R.Hofmann, S. Milstein, M.O.Hengartner
79. MEI-3, a novel kinesin-like protein is essential for female meiotic spindle assembly
    Christoph Segbert, Carin Theres, Olaf Bossinger
80. Development of a bio-monitoring screening system based on the xenobiotically induced gene expression of Caenorhabditis elegans - The Celegans Toxchip
    Kerstin Reichert, Ralph Menzel, Rudolf Achazi
81. Mutational analysis of tbb-2, a beta-tubulin required for proper P0 spindle orientation
    Gregory C. Ellis, Jennifer Phillips, Rebecca Lyczak, Bruce Bowerman
82. rad-51 gene in meiosis and in soma
    Adriana La Volpe, Cinzia Rinaldo, Paolo Bazzicalupo, Sara Ederle, Massimo Hilliard
83. A glr-2 channel pore domain mutant with phenotypic effects only in the presence of the wild type gene
    R. Aronoff, A. V. Maricq, J. Mellem, R. Sprengel, P. Seeburg
84. Heat Shock Factor in Caenorhabditis elegans and in parasitic nematodes
    Glenda Walker, Fiona Thompson, Andrena Brawley, Theresa Scanlon, Eileen Devaney
85. A transcription factor and a hsp70 homologue required for cuticle synthesis
    C. Ibáñez-Ventoso, IL Johnstone
86. The unique forms of the prolyl 4-hydroxylase complex found in C. elegans are essential for development due to their cuticular collagen modifying activity
    Alan Winter, Antony Page
87. Functional conservation and specificity of GATA transcription factors
    Judith A. Smith, Annabelle Couthier, John S. Gilleard
88. FEM-3 is a cytoplasmic protein that is expressed in sperm and spermatocytes
    Marco Belfiore, Mélanie Grandjean, Alessandro Puoti
89. The C. elegans Heterochromatin Protein 1 homologue HPL-2 acts in germline and vulval development
    Palladino Francesca, Coustham Vincent, Florence Couteau
90. A C. elegans model of neuronal dysfunction in Huntington's Disease: Expanded polyglutamines cause severe neuronal phenotypes without cell death
    Alex Parker, Emmanuel Lambert, Christan Neri
91. The Ubiquitin-like Nedd8 protein modification pathway regulates microtubule and microfilament function in the early C. elegans embryo.
    Thimo Kurz, Lionel Pintard, John H. Willis, Danielle R. Hamill, Pierre Gönczy, Matthias Peter, Bruce Bowerman
92. bHLH transcription factors are involved in specifying the cell-death fate of the NSM sister cells
    Julia Hatzold, Marion Thellmann, Barbara Conradt
93. Differing susceptibilities to systemic RNAi within the Caenorhabditis clade
    Mary K. Montgomery
94. Exploring the role of sterol-sensing domain proteins in C. elegans
    O. Zugasti, N. O'Neil, P. Lau, M. Tomlinson, P.E. Kuwabara
95. The Leucine-Rich Repeats of LAP proteins mediate basolateral localisation in epithelial cells
    Renaud Legouis, Fanny Jaulin-Bastard, Sonia Schott, Jean-Paul Borg, Michel Labouesse
96. Identification and characterization of the pvl-1 gene, a member of the PDGF/VEGF family, in C.elegans
    Marina Tarsitano, Vincenza Colonna, Gratien Dalpe, Paolo Bazzicalupo, Tetsunari Fukushige, Jim McGhee, Joe Culotti, Graziella Persico
97. Early cell migrations in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo
    Marcus Bischoff, Ralf Schnabel
98. The HOX gene mab-5 has a conserved function in vulva formation in C. elegans and P. pacificus
    Irina Kolotuev, Benjamin Podbilewicz
99. Regulation by nuclear hormone receptor CHR3 (NHR-25, NF1F4) meets with multiple regulatory pathways on a transcription cofactor, SKIP
    Marta Kostrouchova, Daniel Housa, Zdenek Kostrouch, Vladimir Saudek, Joseph Edward Rall
100. Studies on the anthelmintic effects of inhibitors of the glycosphingolipid biosynthesis and choline metabolism
     Günter Lochnit, Roger D. Dennis, Rudolf Geyer
101. Genetic analysis of the Rap1-pathway in C. elegans
     F.J.T. Zwartkruis, M.H.G. Verheijen, W. van Berkel, J. de Rooij, G. Jansen, R.H.A. Plasterk, J.L. Bos
102. Positive selection of mutants with increased resistance and longevity
     Manuel J. Muñoz, José M. Monje, Manuel A. Fidalgo, Donald L. Riddle
103. Functional characterisation of mammalian syndecan homologue in the C.elegans nervous system
     Tarja Kinnunen, Jeremy Turnbull
104. Sensory neuron Ca++ imaging in response to water-soluble chemical repellents
     Massimo A. Hilliard, Rex Kerr, Alfonso J. Apicella, Christian Frøkjær-Jensen, Paolo Bazzicalupo, William R. Schafer
105. Investigating the functional role of candidate neuropeptide activated GPCRs in C. elegans using RNAi
     Chris Keating, Anita Sicilia, Maggie Daniels, Julian Burke, Lindy Holden-Dye
106. Maternal EMB-29 is required during early development
     Christina Christoforou, Andy Green, Neville Ashcroft
107. Investigating the COP9 signalosome using C. elegans and S. pombe
     Stephen Gill, Tony Carr, Neville Ashcroft
108. Characterization of Neuropeptide Receptors in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Anita Sicilia, Chris Keating, Maggie Daniels, Neville Ashcroft, Lindy Holden-Dye, Julian Burke
109. Identification in Caenorhabditis elegans of cross-reacting carbohydrate epitopes of Schistosoma mansoni immunogens by immunocytological staining
     Cecilia Thors, Ewert Linder
110. The human and C.elegans p66 NuRD chromatin remodelling components: transcriptional repression and SynMuv activities
     Gino Poulin, Cara Neades, Julie Ahringer
111. A role for embryonic polarity components in the development of the Caenorhabditis elegans vulva
     DP Welchman, JA Ahringer
112. Identification of genes implicated in ubiquinone biosynthesis in C. elegans
     Claudio Asencio, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Aguilera, Macarena Ruiz-Ferrer, Plácido Navas
113. Dissecting the complexities of C. elegans DAF-2 insulin/IGF like receptor signalling pathway
     Manoj Nanji, David Gems
114. The EH network in C.elegans
     Anna Elisabetta Salcini, Maria Grazia Malabarba, Lisa Trisciuoglio, Pier Paolo Di Fiore
115. A multifaceted approach to elucidate the regulation of ciliogenesis in C. elegans
     Peter Swoboda, Evgeni Efimenko
116. Ten-1 is involved in sperm development in C. elegans
     Krzysztof Drabikowski, Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann
117. The Mi-2 chromatin-remodelling proteins LET-418 and CHD-3 act negatively on the Hox LIN-39 expression levels and permit correct vulval precursor cell fate determination in C.elegans
     Frédéric Guerry, Fritz Müller
118. Analysis of early ceh-13 expression and anterior embryonic patterning
     Adrian Streit, Paolo Moroni, François Gautron, José Fos, Charles Stoyanov, Fritz Müller
119. Screens to identify positive and negative regulators of neurotransmission
     Cheryl Copelman, Sarah Woolner, Stephen Nurrish
120. Identifying regulators of DGK-1
     Paul Morrison, Iwan Evans, Stephen Nurrish
121. An investigation into the mechanism of action of the novel anthelmintic emodepside using A.suum
     J. Willson, K. Amliwala, L. Holden-Dye, A. Harder, R.J. Walker
122. dyf-8 encodes a type I trans-membrane receptor with a zona-pellucida domain and may be a worm homologue of endoglin.
     Stephen R. Wicks, Ronald H. A. Plasterk
123. C.elegans dlg-1 cooperates with the catenin-cadherin system under hierarchical control of let-413 and crb-1
     Olaf Bossinger, Carin Theres, Christoph Segbert
124. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (itr-1) receptor function in males
     Nicholas J D Gower, Arundhati Sengupta Ghosh, Howard A Baylis
125. Regulation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor gene (itr-1) expression by pha-4
     Nicholas J D Gower, Howard A Baylis
126. Mutations in glutamate-gated chloride channel genes affect C. elegans locomotion and fecundity
     Nathalie Aptel, Katie Lambert, Paul Souter, Alan Cook, Virginia Portillo, Lindy-Holden-Dye, Adrian Wolstenholme
127. Xenobiotically induced cytochrome P450 gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Ralph Menzel, Matthias Roedel, Rudolf Achazi
128. Dna polymorphism in Pristionchus pacificus
     Ravichandiran Kumarasamy, Ralf J Sommer
129. Four Classes of Vulvaless Mutants in Pristionchus pacificus
     Hua Xiao, Andre Pirés da Silva, Ralf J. Sommer
130. Genetic and molecular analysis of the vulval patterning mutants ped-7 and ped-17 in Pristionchus pacificus
     Min Zheng, Ralf J. Sommer
131. Genetic screen for suppressors of ced10(t1875) utilizing the loss of a ced-10::gfp transgenic array
     Kelvin Wong, J M Kinchen, Ralf Schnabel, Michael O. Hengartner
132. A screen for suppressors of ced-6(n1813), a mutant defective in engulfment of apoptotic cell corpses
     Jason M Kinchen, D Klingele, Michael O. Hengartner
133. Identification of a new mutant defective for DNA damage responses in the C. elegans germ line
     Jennifer J. Hofmann, E. Randal Hofmann, Michael O. Hengartner
134. Genome-wide RNAi screen for genes that control germ cell apoptosis in C. elegans
     Guillaume Lettre, Ekaterini Kritikou, Martin Jaeggi, Andrea Calixto, Andy Fraser, Ravi Kamath, Julie Ahringer, Michael O. Hengartner
135. A direct interaction between C. elegans IP3 receptors and a LIN-15B homologue that functions in gonadogenesis, control of defecation and modulation of pharyngeal pumping rate
     Denise S. Walker, Sung Ly, Howard A. Baylis
136. Characterisation of a C. elegans calexcitin
     Sung Ly, Denise S. Walker
137. Transient disruption of IP3 receptor function in C. elegans
     Denise S. Walker, Nicholas J.D. Gower, Sung Ly, Gemma L. Bradley, Howard A. Baylis
138. Functional analysis of the C. elegans centaurin ß (CNT-1) protein
     Laura S Harrington, Denise S Walker, Trevor R Jackson, Howard A Baylis
139. TRPm channel function in the defecation rhythm of Caenorhabditis elegans
     Claire S M Kwan, Cassandra D Ragnauth, Howard A Baylis
140. Variation in parasite resistance between natural isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans
     Hinrich Schulenburg
141. C. elegans whole genome microarray: An update
     Joanne M. Staines, Jeena A. Rajan, Wendy L. Bridge, Alan Coulson, Patricia E. Kuwabara
142. Novel drug targets: the identification and characterisation of candidate transmembrane proteins
     Anna Henricson, Claes Wahlestedt, Erik Sonnhammer, Ana Vaz Gomes
143. Specificity of G-protein mediated signaling in odorant detection by C. elegans
     Hannes Lans, Gert Jansen
144. Using a Combination of Two Recombinases to Create Targeted Single-copy Genomic Insertion in C. elegans
     Phillip Grote, Matthias Lauth, Michael Meyer, Barbara Conradt
145. Annotation of C.elegans protein sequences in SWISS-PROT.
     Eleanor Whitfield, Rolf Apweiler
146. Identification of factors specifically involved in the regulation of physiological germ cell death
     Pamela Opitz, Nicole Wittenburg, Barbara Conradt
147. Identification of an AAA ATPase as an interacting partner of C.elegans DLG-1
     Michael Hoffmann, Christoph Segbert, Carin Theres, Olaf Bossinger
148. Multi-parametric & dual color fluorescent analysis and flow sorting of C. elegans
     R. Bongaarts, L. Bols, A. Ferrante, B. Dell'Orfano, S. Zusman, Johan Geysen
149. Enhanced one-step nematode recognition on micrographs of living C. elegans cultures in 384-well plates using linear scale space mathematics
     Peter Van Osta, Kris Ver Donck, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Luc Bols, Johan Geysen
150. Identifying transcriptional targets of the DAF-12 nuclear hormone receptor
     Axel Bethke, Adam Antebi
151. Proteome analysis reveals distinct molecular differences in developmental stages of wild type Caenorhabditis elegans
     A. Madi, S. Mikkat, M. Ulbrich, B. Ringel, H.-J. Thiesen, M.O. Glocker
152. A new screen to identify negative regulators of Egfr signalling in C. elegans
     Neil A. Hopper
153. Functional analysis of a collection of maternal effect mutants of C.elegans through 4D-microscopy
     Juan Cabello, Richard Feichtinger, Heinke Schnabel, Ralf Schnabel
154. Characterization and identification of genes involved in transposon silencing
     Sylvia E. J. Fischer, Nadine L. Vastenhouw, Pawel Pasierbek, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
155. Homologous gene targeting in C. elegans
     Eugene Berezikov, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
156. Genes involved in genome stability in C. elegans
     Gijs van Haaften, Joris Pothof, Karen Thijssen, Marcel Tijsterman, Andrew Fraser, Ravi Kamath, Julie Ahringer, Ronald Plasterk
157. Dystrophin and associated proteins in C. elegans
     Karine Grisoni, Kathrin Gieseler, Edwige Martin, Marie Christine Mariol, Laurent Ségalat
158. DYC-1 a dystrophin related protein of C. elegans
     Kathrin Gieseler, Karine Grisoni, Agnès Dumont, Laurent Ségalat
159. A novel LIM domain protein (Y105E8A.6) that was isolated as an interactor protein of RNF-5, is localized to muscular focal adhesions
     Limor Broday, Anindita Bhoumik, Irina Kolotuev, Benjamin Podbilewicz, Ze'ev Ronai
160. Systematic analysis of cell specific enhancers in C. elegans
     Hiroshi Kagoshima, Yuji Kohara
161. Novel downstream targets of G-protein a-subunits in C. elegans
     Alexander M. van der Linden, Edwin Cuppen, Celine Moorman, Ronald H.A. Plasterk
162. Genome analysis of the effect of the host immune response on Strongyloides ratti
     Fiona J. Thompson, Clare P. Wilkes, Claire Murphy, Brandi Chiapelli, Jim McCarter, Sandra Clifton, Mark E. Viney
163. The role of protein turnover in caloric restriction and aging
     Popi Syntichaki, Nektarios Tavernarakis
164. Functional analysis of the ACR-13 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit
     Paula R. Towers, Nigel P. Mongan, Mark P. Sansom, David B. Sattelle
165. The function and interactions of the C. elegans orthologue of the SMN gene: CeSMN
     Emma C. Burt, Stefanos Christodoulou, Kay E. Davies, David B. Sattelle
166. The ±-catulin gene ctn-1 is alternatively spliced and encodes a component of muscle tissue
     Ian D. Broadbent, Jonathan Pettitt
167. A comparison of the action of ivermectin and emodepside on C.elegans
     K. Amliwala, J. Willson, L. Holden-Dye, A. Harder, R.J. Walker
168. The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor family of Caenorhabditis elegans
     Behrooz Esmaeili, Andrew K. Jones, Chris Franks, Emmanuel Culetto, David B. Sattelle
169. Stage-specific effects of the cholinergic anthelmintic drugs, levamisole, morantel and pyrantel on Caenorhabditis elegans
     Andrew K. Jones, David B. Sattelle
170. Towards a two-component based enhancer trap system in C. elegans: a progress report
     Marco C. Betist, Hendrik C. Korswagen
171. Y74C10AM.1 and W09D6.6 are the Caenorhabditis. elegans orthologues of the human genes ABC7 and ABC6, respectively
     Pilar Gonzalez-Cabo, Rafael Vazquez-Manrique, Howard Baylis, Francesc Palau
172. Characterisation of the Caenorhabditis elegans orthologue of the Friedreich's ataxia gene
     Rafael Vazquez-Manrique, Howard Baylis, Pilar Gonzalez-Cabo, Francesc Palau
173. Homology modelling of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Hyunji Kim, Mark S. P. Sansom, David B. Sattelle
174. Cloning of a novel regulator of the LET-23 EGFR/ LET-60 RAS/ MPK-1 MAPK signaling pathway
     Stefano Canevascini, Thomas Berset, Erika Froehli, Gopal Battu, Amit Dutt, Alex Hajnal
175. The mammalian FGFs belonging to the 9, 16 and 20 subfamily but neither C. elegans egl-17 nor Drosophila Bnl genes can functionaly replace the C. elegans let-756/FGF gene
     Cornel Popovici, Daniel Birnbaum, Régine Roubin
176. Somatic cell fusion and fertility in C. elegans: the eff-1 connection
     Nirit Assaf, Tamar Gattegno, Benjamin Podbilewicz
177. New players in RNA interference: Implication of rde-1 homologues
     Martin J. Simard, Erbay Yigit, Craig C. Mello
178. C. elegans as a model organism for lysosomal storage disorders
     Peter E.M. Taschner, Gert de Voer
179. The lin-26 gene is regulated by tissue-specific cis-elements
     Frédéric Landmann, Sophie Quintin, Michel Labouesse
180. Olfactive learning and memory in nematodes
     J.J. Remy
181. feh-1 and apl-1, the orthologues of Fe65 and Alzheimer's b-amyloid precursor APP control a common pathway involved in the regulation of the pharyngeal activity in C. elegans
     Marida Bimonte, Davide Gianni, Salvatore Arbucci, Paolo Bazzicalupo, Tommaso Russo, Nicola Zambrano
182. Screening for paternal-effect mutations involved in the establishment of polarity in the early C. elegans embryo
     Sophie Quintin, Louise Birrell, Tony Hyman
183. Double strand break repair induced by transposon excision
     Erik M. Jorgensen, Jean-Louis Bessereau
184. Patch-clamp study of the cationic currents in the pharyngeal muscle cells of the adult nematode C.elegans
     I.Vinogradova, R. Walker, L. Holden-Dye
185. Resistance to the nicotinic agonist DMPP defines a new class of genes
     Anne-Françoise Ruaud, Jean-Louis Bessereau
186. Characterisation of two EF-1a homologues: translational elongation factors SelB and cgp-1
     J.T. Stenvall, Simon Tuck, O. P.Persson
187. A novel conserved rna-binding domain protein, Rbd-1, is essential and important for ribosome biogenesis
     Petra Björk, Göran Baurén, ShaoBo Jin, Yong-Guang Tong, Thomas R. Bürglin, Ulf Hellman, Lars Wieslander
188. Microtubule-dependent processes in the one-cell embryo of C. elegans
     Martin Srayko, Anne Schwager, Tony Hyman
189. Identification of novel downstream effectors of Rap1 and Rap2
     Jurgen A. Riedl, Wendy van Berkel, Johannes L. Bos, Fried J.T. Zwartkruis
190. Update on warthog genes
     Gudrun Aspöck, Limin Hao, Ursula Sauter, Markus Dürrenberger, Thomas R. Bürglin
191. Genetic analysis of Ras-like GTPases in C. elegans
     W. van Berkel, J. Riedl, M.H.G. Verheijen, J. De Rooij, G. Jansen, R.H.A. Plasterk, J.L. Bos, F.J.T. Zwartkruis
192. Genetic interactions between lin-25 and C. elegans Mediator components
     Teresa Tiensuu, Simon Tuck
193. The C. elegans Mi-2 orthologs LET-418 and CHD-3 are together required for the LIN-12/ Notch signaling pathway
     Y. Zhang, Fritz Müller
194. Cln-3.3, one of the C. elegans homologues of the human CLN3 gene involved in neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, is expressed in the intestinal muscle
     Gert de Voer, Gert-Jan B. Van Ommen, Dorien J.M. Peters, Peter E.M. Taschner
195. zyg-11 and cul-2 are required for meiotic cell cycle progression and AP polarity in one cell stage C.elegans embryos
     Rémi Sonneville, Jennifer Watts, Ken Kemphues, Pierre Gönczy
196. C. elegans cut superclass genes, ceh-44, ceh-32 and ceh-37
     Patrick Dessi, Limin Hao, Tobias Klingenfuss, Giuseppe Cassata, Ralf Baumeister, Thomas R. Bürglin
197. A functional analysis of the extradenticle ortholog ceh-40
     Krisztina Takacs-Vellai, Tibor Vellai, Alessandra Vigano, Markus Affolter, Fritz Müller
198. Phenotypic Plasticity In Nematodes
     Luke Tain
199. Functional Analysis of Acyl-Binding Proteins in C. elegans
     M.K. Larsen, S. Feddersen, N.J. Faergeman, J.Knudsen
200. Functional analysis of the micro RNA genes of C. elegans
     Eric Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Allison Abbott, Nelson C. Lau, David P. Bartel, Victor Ambros, Bob Horvitz
201. CUT-1-like proteins involved in the formation of the alae of L1 and dauer larvae
     Maria Rosaria Sapio, Massimo A.Hilliard, Salvatore Arbucci, Michele Cermola, Reneé Favre, Paolo Bazzicalupo
202. The C. elegans F47F2.1 gene encodes a cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PK-A) catalytic subunit
     A.V. Bicknell, M. Tabish, R. A. Clegg, H.H. Rees, M.J. Fisher
203. C.elegans genes coding for proteins involved in the biosynthetic pathway and regulation of carnitine
     Alfonso j. Apicella, Salvatore Arbucci, Michele D'Urso, James D. McGhee, Valeria M. Ursini, Paolo Bazzicalupo
204. Analysis of the G protein coupled receptors family to identify candidates chemosensory receptors
     Alfonso j. Apicella, Salvatore Arbucci, Massimo Hilliard, Paolo Bazzicalupo
205. Functional conservation between the human and nematode KAL proteins
     Elia Di Schiavi, Salvatore Arbucci, Paolo Bazzicalupo
206. cow-1 is required to spatially restrict contraction of the actin cytoskeleton in the early embryo
     John Willis, Aaron Severson, Bruce Bowerman
207. The human PTEN tumor suppressor regulates diapause and longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Florence Solari, Angélique Bourbon-Piffaut, Marc Billaud
208. Cytological characterization of DNA damage response pathways in C. elegans
     Arno Alpi, Pawel Pasierbek, Verena Jantsch, Josef Loidl, Anton Gartner
209. ccf-1, a putative deadenylase encoding gene, is necessary for meiotic progression
     Laurent Molin, Jean Pierre Magaud
210. Functional characterisation of the Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of mammalian puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase that has reduced sensitivity to puromycin
     Darren R Brooks, Nigel M Hooper, R. Elwyn Isaac
211. An RNAi screen for axon guidance genes
     Parag Kinge, Harald Hutter
212. Axon guidance in the ventral cord of C. elegans
     Harald Hutter
213. Searching for target genes of the nuclear receptor NHR-25 in C. elegans
     Marie Silhankova, Masako Asahina, Marek Jindra
214. Functional analysis of IgCAMs expressed in the nervous system
     Valentin Schwarz, Susanne Voltmer, Harald Hutter
215. Ast-1 , a novel gene important for fasciculation of ventral cord axons
     Christina Schmid, Edward M. Hedgecock, Harald Hutter
216. Expression and function of ftz-f1/nhr-25 in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Masako Asahina, Marie Silhankova, Susumu Hirose, Marek Jindra
217. Expression and characterisation of the C. elegans NEP-like gene T25B6.2.
     Minaxi S. Gami, David Coates, R. Elwyn Isaac
218. The RAD27/FEN1 homolog is essential during early development in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Cinzia Rinaldo, Vittoria Copeti, Emilio Santoro, Adriana La Volpe
219. The C.elegans Forkhead gene F26B1.7.
     Helen Caspersson, Ann Rose, David Baillie, Marika Hellqvist-Greberg
220. Identifying ligands for NPR-1
     Vincenzina Reale, Candida Rogers, Heather Chatwin, Peter D. Evans, Mario de Bono
221. Embryonic development of the free-living, marine nematode Pellioditis marina
     W. Houthoofd, K. Jacobsen, B. Vancoppenolle, A. Coomans, G. Borgonie
222. Suppressors of social feeding behaviour
     Nicola Tremain, Mario de Bono
223. Essential roles for four cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans development
     Anton Karabinos, Henning Schmidt, Jens Harborth, Ralf Schnabel, Klaus Weber
224. Characterization of M. nematophilum resistant mutants bus-3 and bus-5
     Karen J. Yook, Jonathan A. Hodgkin
225. Molecular cloning of C. elegans bus-6 using snip/SNP mapping
     Delia O'Rourke, Maria Gravato-Nobre, Jonathan Hodgkin
226. C. elegans - M. nematophilum interaction: Genetic and molecular characterization of the gene bus-1
     Maria Gravato-Nobre, Delia O'Rourke, Jonathan Hodgkin
227. Cloning and characterization of srf-3
     Jörg Höflich, Sam Politz, Jonathan Hodgkin, Ralf Baumeister
228. Characterisation of the Multiubiquitin Chain Assembly Factor (E4) in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Thorsten Hoppe, Bianca Sperl, Ralf Baumeister
229. Characterization of mau-8 mutants
     J-A Boudier, V. Barthaux, C. Benard, S. Hekimi, M. Garcia
230. mab-9/Tbx20 orthologues and the generation of morphological diversity
     Sobia Aslam, Jane Sowden, Alison Woollard
231. WormBase: a web-accessible database for C. elegans biology
     Kerstin Jekosch, WormBase Consortium
232. Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL)
     Morwenna Porter, Sara Mole
233. Genetic and molecular characterisation of two new dumpy genes: dpy-31 and dpy-32
     Jacopo Novelli, Nathalie Pujol, Jonathan Hodgkin
234. Comparative and experimental embryogenesis of Plectidae (Nematoda)
     Vera Lahl, Christian Halama, Einhard Schierenberg
235. Functional analysis of the C. elegans T-box gene family
     Sara Maxwell, Lizzie Clarke, Roger Pocock, Alison Woollard
236. Taste perception by the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
     Jan Burghoorn, Gert Jansen
237. Cloning of the mab-2 gene of C.elegans using RNAi
     Rachael Nimmo, Alison Woollard
238. Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism in the study of nucleoside transporters
     Peter J. Appleford, Mark Griffiths, Eugene G. Chomey, Sylvia Y. M. Yao, Darryl MacGregor, R. Elwyn Isaac, Ian A. Hope, David Coates, Carol E. Cass, James D. Young, Stephen A. Baldwin
239. Genomic RNAi screens for genes influencing C. elegans diapause and longevity
     Gudrun Peiler, Nanyi Park, Adam Antebi
240. Environmental and genetic inputs regulate DAF-9 cytochrome P450 expression
     Birgit Gerisch, Corinna Kober-Eisermann, Adam Antebi
241. A positive role for lin-1 in C. elegans vulval development?
     Simon Tuck, Eva Jonsson
242. The Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of human angiotensin converting enzyme: evidence for a non-peptidase role in larval development
     Peter J. Appleford, Darren R. Brooks, Craig S. Wilding, R. Elwyn Isaac
243. The C. elegans cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PK-A) catalytic subunit gene (kin-1)
     L.C. Bowen, M. Tabish, R.A. Clegg, H.H. Rees, M.J. Fisher
244. Computer prediction of cis-acting elements from co-regulated genes
     Archana Sharma-Oates, Ian A. Hope
245. Cathepsin L cysteine protease is essential for embryogenesis in C. elegans and parasitic nematodes
     Collette Britton, Linda Murray
246. The role of the DPY-7 cuticular collagen in the exoskeleton of Caenorhabditis elegans.
     Martyn Quinn, Brett Roberts, Iain Johnstone
247. Genome organization of Microbacterium nematophilum and possible determinants and mechanisms involved in pathogenicity for C. elegans
     Tatiana Akimkina, Steve Curnock, Jonathan Hodgkin
248. A GFP-fusion to the cuticular collagen, COL-19, its expression pattern, and its efficacy in the visualisation of ECM disruption
     Melanie C Thein, Gillian MacCormack, Antony P Page
249. Characterisation of mutants with an altered E Lineage in Caenorhabditis elegans
     Caroline Clucas, Iain L. Johnstone
250. Genes regulating social feeding behaviour in C. elegans
     Benny H. H. Cheung, Mario de Bono
251. The mechanism of action of the neuropeptide AF1 in C.elegans
     Neline Kriek, David Marsden, Candida Rogers, Julian Burke, Lindy Holden-Dye
252. Functional role for glutamate-gated chloride channel subunits in the pharynx of C. elegans
     A. Cook, N. Aptel, D. Pemberton, Adrian J. Wolstenholme, Lindy Holden-Dye