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
Don Moerman lab
Knockout consortium group and functional genomics of muscle.
Ann Rose lab
Mechanisms of recombination and DNA repair.
Cathy Rankin lab
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour and memory.
Don Riddle lab
Developmental pathways; Dauer larvae.
Simon Fraser University
Harald Hutter lab
Neurobiology; neuron pathfinding.
David Baillie lab
Functional genomics; expression analysis.
Nancy Hawkins lab
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of asymmetric cell division.
Jack Chen lab
Bioinformatics; genomics; genome evolution and organisation.
Michel Leroux lab
Functional genomics of cilia; ciliopathies; actin and tubulin biogenesis.
Other groups that also use C. elegans as a model system
- Steve Jones group. Bioinformatics, functional and comparative genomics.
- Terry Snutch lab. Function and control of voltage-gated channels.
