Newswise BETHESDA, MD July 9, 2013 Six graduate students and one undergraduate were named as recipients of Genetics Society of America (GSA) poster awards at the 19th International C. elegans Meeting, held June 2630 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. More than 1,750 scientists attended the worlds largest gathering of those conducting research using the nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, a model organism that lends itself to easy investigation where findings can easily be translated to humans.

Recipients were selected from almost 400 eligible posters presented at the meeting. The 93 faculty who judged the poster presenters had quite a challenge to select the best ones, because there were so many excellent posters. They did a great job judging and selecting the finalists, said Tina L. Gumienny, PhD, co-chair of the poster competition. The caliber of science at this year's poster session was amazing and bodes well for the future of C. elegans research, added Erin J. Cram, PhD, poster co-chair.

One winner was selected in each topic area:

Cell Biology Tisha E. Bohr University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Spindle assembly checkpoint proteins regulate and monitor meiotic synapsis in C. elegans

Development and Evolution Tulsi Patel Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Cell Fate Restriction and Reprogramming in C. elegans

Gene Regulation and Genomics Ashlyn D. Ritter University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA Complex expression dynamics and robustness in C. elegans insulin networks

Methods and Technology Valeriya Laskova Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada Mapping the entire connectome of C. elegans L1 larvae

Neurobiology Julie E. Grimm Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel How to Fix a Broken Neuron

Physiology Kurt J. Warnhoff Washington University, St. Louis, MO natc-1 mediates stress resistance and dauer formation as a downstream effector of the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway

Undergraduate Michael James Hoy College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA The C. elegans Insulin Signaling Response to Glucose Stress Requires Unique Regulators

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Seven Receive Genetics Society of America Poster Awards at Worm Meeting

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