The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has become an important tool in the scientific world resulting in over 23,000 publications until now. Fully sequenced genome, 3-day life cycle and a considerable high amount of protein-coding genes (21,000) with high homology to humans making it an attractive model organism.

Our goal is to increase scientific awareness about this important model organism and our mission is to assist creating up new C. elegans labs in Taiwan and to offer non-profit services for existing worm-labs.

Using worm as a research tool is highly beneficial based on its low cost and its easiness to be adapted after several training courses. We wish to support investigators during their transition from single cell research to C. elegans based model organism research providing methodically assistance, sharing mutant strains and plasmids, training students and offering lectures about C. elegans based research.

Our mission is to provide knowledge to help researchers to design and conduct experiments without C. elegans experience. We assist in developing experiments to test various hypothesis in the nematode that have been otherwise investigated only in cell culture or other models.