Calling all tristate area worm scientists!
Are you a worm scientist in the PA/NJ/DE tristate area (or within driving distance of West Chester, PA)? Are you looking for ways to engage with the public about your research? Join us this August 9th for WormCon, a one-day science outreach event designed to create conversations about the value of fundamental research – and…
Nematode Hunters at the 25th International Worm Meeting!
The Nematode Hunters team are excited to be traveling to Davis, California where we will be sharing our latest results with worm researchers from all over the world at the 25th International Worm Meeting! Presentations will include: “Nematode Hunters: CUREing Intracellular Infections” by Dr. Jessica Sowa. Plenary Session I, 7:44-7:56pm Saturday, June 28th, 2025 “Novel…
Nematodes received from Lionville Elementary!
Cheers to our nematode hunters at Lionville Elementary! Thanks to your hard work we have lots of new strains of nematodes to study! How many nematodes did Lionville find? How do we know if the nematodes are infected? The secret is in their DNA! In our lab we have special nematodes that have been genetically…
Nematode Hunters at #TAGC2024
Dr. Sowa and several members of the Nematode Hunters team will be traveling this March to The Allied Genetics Conference 2024 in Washington, D.C. to present the results of our studies! 177: Nematode Hunters: an integrated approach combining science outreach, course-based undergraduate research, and mentored research to identify novel nematode viruses Presented by: Dr. Sowa…
New Results!
Our special lab grown worms have been hanging out with the nematodes you sent! Calling all Nematode Hunters, we have a positive result! As you know, our team has been looking for a new nematode virus, but we needed your help to find sick worms. We mixed the nematodes you collected with our special lab…
Infection transmission from JNS_10!
We have observed IPR reporter fluorescence in reporter C. elegans co-cultured with the wild isolate JNS_10! JNS_10 was isolated from a mutsu apple found at Highland Orchards in West Chester, PA. The reporter appears to be expressed in intestine on the side closest to the head. The next step will be to test whether this…
First successful infection transmission!
Our first successful co-culturing experiment! Wild worms mixed with our infection-GFP and infection-mCherry reporters resulted in glowing worms, indicating that the wild worms passed an infection to our C. elegans!
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