UK C. elegans Meeting 2025

We are delighted to bring the Genetics Society-sponsored UK C. elegans Meeting to the centre of the UK (!) and host the 2025 meeting in Durham.

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In a modification to the normal format of the UK C. elegans Meeting, it will run from lunch on Thursday 3rd April until lunchtime on Friday 4th April, to allow for more time for interaction between attendees. There will be a mix of keynote talks, short talks and poster sessions, and a banquet dinner at Grey College. We aim to maximise the number of attendees who can present their research.

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In addition, there will be an ECR workshop on translation of basic research that runs before the main meeting (late afternoon/evening on Wednesday 2nd April and finishing Thursday lunchtime). This is being supported by the MCSA NERVSPAN consortium – a doctoral training network consisting entirely of C. elegans labs (including Magnitude Biosciences). ECR attendees of the Worm Meeting are invited to also register for this free event.

 

All researchers who study C. elegans (and other nematodes) are welcome to attend. 
 

Registration is closed - we are completely at capacity

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Invited Speakers: 

Barbara Conradt (UCL), Denis Dupuy (Bordeaux), Marco Giorda (Altos Labs, Cambridge)​.

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Organisers:

Josana Rodriguez, Tim Davies, David Weinkove

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Practical details:

Accommodation is available (~£60 per night) in Grey College, Durham which will be a short walk from all meeting venues.

Durham is well connected by train to much of the UK and parking will also be available.

 

Sponsors:

The Genetics Society are the key sponsors. Registration for Genetics Society members will be significantly subsisdised.

Additional sponsors include Nagi Bioscience , Magnitude Biosciences and GTVision. Sponsors will be exhibiting equipment and running equipment demonstrations.

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Provisional Schedule:

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Early Career Researcher Workshop (2nd & 3rd April)

The workshop is immediately before the start of the main meeting.  Attendance is a free additional option for ECR attendees of the main C. elegans meeting. More details are here.

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UK C. elegans Meeting

Thursday 3rd April

• 11:30 am – Meeting Registration & Lunch | Confluence Building

• 12:30 pm – Welcome & Session 1 | Confluence Building

  • Charlotte Sprason "Exploiting a Caenorhabditis elegans model to develop probiotics to improve bee resistance to climate change"

  • Mariya Shtumpf "Investigating the role of ATRX in regulating cellular identity in C. elegans"

  • Jon Saunders "Changes in zinc homeostasis influence the innate host defence."

  • Deep Prakash "Molecular mechanisms of Bacillus subtilis-induced protection against alpha-synuclein aggregation in Caenorhabditis elegans"

  • Marco Giorda "Glycerol signal induces starvation response in C. elegans"

• 3:00 pm – Poster Session 1 & Refreshments | Confluence Building

• 4:00 pm – Session 2 | Confluence Building

  • Veeren Chauhan "Surface Chemistry in Nematodes: From Parasitic Evasion to Free-Living Adaptations"

  • Juan Carlos Rueda Silva "Replisome-histone interactions play a role the transgenerational maintenance of large heterochromatic domains"

  • Peter Sarkies "The loaded dice? Evolution of genome-wide mutation rates due to transcription coupled repair in C. elegans embryos"

  • Laetitia Chauve "Evidence for increased stress resistance due to polyploidy from synthetic autotetraploid Caenorhabditis elegans"

  • Sponsor Talk - Nagi Bioscience

  • Denis Dupuy "The hidden depth of single cell sequencing"

• 5:40 pm – Closing Remarks | Confluence Building

• 5:45 pm – Free Time / Organised Walk / Check-in

• 6:45 pm – Assemble for Dinner | Grey College

• 7:00 pm – Dinner | Grey College

• 9:00 pm onwards – Free Time

Friday 4th April

• 8:50 am – Session 3 | Biosciences Department

• • Lisa Anderer "Unraveling navigation at branchpoints: In vivo live imaging of neuronal transport"

  • Astrid Bostrom "Using a kinesin-1 auxin-inducible degron to investigate the roles of kinesin-1 in locomotion and dense core vesicle transport in C. elegans"

  • Barbara Conradt "To die or not to die – Using the C. elegans cell death fate to study how cell fate decisions are made"

• 10:20 am – Poster Session 2 & Sponsor Lab Demonstration | Biosciences Department

• 11:45 am – Session 4 | Biosciences Department

  • Erik Griffin "Dynamics of asymmetric translation in the early C. elegans embryo"

  • Jose Vazquez "Optical Control of Gene Expression using Genetic Code Expansion"

• 12:30 pm – Conference Close and Lunch | Biosciences Department

• 12:30 pm – The venue will remain open for additional sponsor demonstrations, networking, discussion.