Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Warm up with "the worm"

Certain organisms offer greater advantages for experimental research and one such organism is Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode worm). While there are lot of webpages dedicated to the research aspects of the organism,there are very few pages that are of interest to undergraduate education as an educational tool

Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison has come up with a new educational web site on C.elegans .

For C. elegans resources, the site includes the following sections:
1) About C. elegans: background and why it is studied;

2) C. elegans research: research data organized by the five discipline groupings - Cell Biology,Developmental biology,Genetics,Evolutionary biology and Neuroscience;

3) C. elegans people: listing of C. elegans researchers with contact information;

4) C. elegans education: teaching protocols, materials, and learning modules; and

5) More resources: relevant external resources organized and made accessible for learning.

More on this website by the authors here

Take a look.