Upcoming Events

2025 Front Range Worm Symposium

WyCo Lab Meetings

The goal of the WyCo Lab Meeting Series is to promote intellectual exchange within the community of C. elegans researchers of the Front Range and Western US. If your lab would like to join the group, please commit to scheduling your lab into a speaking slot and make an effort to attend other talks. Contact Erin Osborne Nishimura for details.

Instructions for Speakers

  • Please prepare a 25-minute talk and expect interruptions and discussion
  • Attendees should be encouraged to ask questions throughout the talk
  • We will aim for 35 minutes per speaker including questions
  • We will have 20 minutes reserved for concluding discussions (and technical challenges)
  • Important! Please introduce your research clearly. The best talks introduce the overarching goals of the field, the goals of the lab, and the goals of the immediate project successively. Please reserve one slide to state the research question you will be addressing.
  • This is a great way to get feedback on a project. Try to determine in advance any specific questions you will have for the audience.

Local seminars

  • If you have a regional C. elegans talk you would like to advertise, please e-mail Erin Nishimura

Past Events

Past Symposia

Front Range Worm Symposium 2024
May 25, 2024, 10am – 5pm
Avogadro’s Number, Fort Collins

Front Range Worm Symposium 2023
May 31, 2023, 10am – 4pm
Wolverine Press, Fort Collins

Front Range Worm Symposium 2019
May 28, 2019, 10am – 4pm
Colorado State University

Front Range Worm Symposium 2018
May 24, 2018, 10am – 4pm
Colorado State University

Front Range Worm Symposium 2017
May 25, 2017, 12pm – 5pm
Colorado State University

 

 

Past Seminars

Needhi Bhalla, PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz 

A Tale of Two Checkpoints

September 24, 2021
Virtual

hosted by: Dan Levy
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Wyoming

Dr. Brent Derry
Molecular Genetics; University of Toronto

Using C. elegans to understand cerebral vascular disease and transgenerational inheritance mechanisms

October 29, 2021
2:30 pm

hosted by: David Fay
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Wyoming

Marco Mangone, PhD
Arizona State University 

Monday, November 15, 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am (MTN)
MRB 312 and over Zoom (TBD)

hosted by: Erin Osborne Nishimura
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Departmental Seminar
Colorado State University

Ding Xue, PhD
University of Colorado, Boulder

Monday, November 15, 2021
4:00 pm (MTN)

Denver University

The Long & Short of Non-coding RNAs in Gene Regulation and Animal Lifespan

Dr. Amy Pasquinelli
University of California, San Diego

Tuesday February 6, 2018; 4pm
Biology 136; Colorado State University
Hosted by Tai Montgomery and CSU Biology Department Seminar Series

Title: Small RNA pathways as epigenetic architects: Guarding the genome and defending development

Dr. Julie Claycomb
University of Toronto, Canada

Tuesday April 10, 2018; 4pm
Biology 136; Colorado State University
Hosted by Tai Montgomery and CSU Biology Department Seminar Series

 

Dr. Christopher Link
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado Boulder

An intersection between ALS and Alzheimer’s disease


When:
Monday September 18, 12:00pm   
Where:
GOLD A2B70, CU Boulder
Hosted by:
Colloquium Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado, Boulder

Dr. Amy Buck
Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution
Edinburgh, England

Vesicle and RNA Secretion by Helminths: at the Host Surface


When:
Thursday October 5th, 4pm   
Where:
GOLD A2B70, CU Boulder
Hosted by:
MCDB Boulder Seminar Series
University of Colorado, Boulder

Dr. Dustin Updike
Regenerative Biology and Medicine
Desert Mountain Institute


When:
Monday October 16th, 10:00am  
Where:
Molecular Radiological Biosciences Building, Rm 312, CSU, Fort Collins
Hosted by:
Erin Nishimura,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Seminar Series
Colorado State University

Dr. Tai Montgomery
Biology Department
Colorado State University


When:
Monday October 16th
Where:
CU Anschutz, Denver
Hosted by:
Dick Davis
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Seminar Series
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Dr. Michael Ailion
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

When:
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 12:00pm
Where:
Molecular Radiological Biosciences Building, Rm 312, CSU, Fort Collins
Hosted by:
Fred Hoerndli
Cell and Molecular Biology Curriculum Seminar Series
Colorado State University

Past WyCo Meetings

Monday, October 4th , 2021

2 pm – 3:30 pm 

Robert Williams
Intestine transcription factor ELT-2 positively and negatively regulates direct target genes
Nishimura Lab

Rachel Doser
Tools for simultaneous monitoring of synaptic and mitochondrial ROS and Calcium signaling
Hoerndli Lab

Colorado State University MRB 109 and on Zoom

Monday, October 25th , 2021

2 pm – 3:30 pm 

TBD
Montgomery Lab
 
TBD
TBD Lab

Monday, November 29th , 2021

2 pm – 3:30 pm 

Tom La Rocca
LaRocca Lab

Shaonil Binti
Fay Lab

 

2022 – 2023

Tuesday, October 7, 2022

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Michael Nonet

Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine

“Recombination-based approaches for efficient transgenesis in C. elegans”

Colorado State University HEOC 210
and/or on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89258275065?pwd=bUZpUUh0b0hYTytaQUpJbG1VWnpIZz09
Meeting ID: 892 5827 5065
Passcode: 946886

Monday, November 7, 2022

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Anna Schorr

Marco Mangone Lab
University of Arizona

“An updated microRNA transcriptome of the C. elegans body muscle tissue”

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Speaker1

Kumar Lab

Speaker 2

Ann Wehman Lab
University of Denver

Monday, February 6, 2023

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Speaker 1

Tai Montgomery Lab
Colorado State University

Speaker 2

David Fay Lab
University of Wyoming

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Speaker 1

Fred Hoerndli Lab
Colorado State University

Speaker 2

Christopher Link Lab
University of Boulder