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
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Don Moerman lab
Knockout consortium group and functional genomics of muscle.
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Ann Rose lab
Mechanisms of recombination and DNA repair.
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Cathy Rankin lab
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour and memory.
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Don Riddle lab
Developmental pathways; Dauer larvae.
Simon Fraser University
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Harald Hutter lab
Neurobiology; neuron pathfinding.
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David Baillie lab
Functional genomics; expression analysis.
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Nancy Hawkins lab
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of asymmetric cell division.
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Jack Chen lab
Bioinformatics; genomics; genome evolution and organisation.
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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.