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 Vancouver metropolitan area, at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Trinity Western University (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 GExplore (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 discovery and work on GFP
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