We are excited to announce that the application window for the new Richard Sikora Travel Award is now open! This travel award is for SON members grad students and/or postdocs presenting about Integrated Nematode Management. Scan the QR code for details or here: www.nematologists.org/SON2025-Trav...

#WormFactWednesday is arriving early this week and we're talking about Trichosomoides crassicauda and endoparasitic males! Trichosomoides crassicauda, a parasite that lives in the urinary bladder of rats, especially Epimys norvegicus, has an unusual relationship between the sexes.

This week the Career Development workshop organized by the SON Industry & Grad-student committees provided career path insights to SON members around the world, supporting the society’s vision to advance the science of nematology. Like this post if you'd like another workshop!

#WormFactWednesday this week is all about how epigenetics can impact inheritance and gene expression in nematodes! The environment can alter gene expression from minor and reversible short-term changes to the DNA of the sperm and eggs.

#WormFactWednesday is all about two things we love - sleep & nematodes! Most nematodes including Caenorhabditis elegans molt four times producing four juvenile stages before becoming an adult. Lethargus is a period of quiescence between the juvenile stages.

Very exciting Career Development workshop provided by the SON Industry & Student committees! Registration & event information can be found here: nematologists.org/event-6040380 Hope to see you there!

This week our #WormFactWednesday is dedicated to one of the Pioneers of Nematode Management, Amegda Jack Overman (1920 - 2011). "An outstanding agriculturist, she developed fumigation practices that allowed the reuse of old land for growing vegetables and ornamentals.

Exciting postdoc opportunity to work on the beech leaf nematode with Dr. Kantor at Penn State! The role will include designing, conducting, and analyzing a comparative greenhouse host-range test of beech leaf nematode, Litylenchus crenatae spp. mccanii (Lcm), on native tree species.

The 1st #WormFactWednesday of February is all about the synergistic interactions of nematodes and fungus! Nematode-fungus disease interactions have been known since the descriptions of the genus Meloidogyne by Emilio Goeldi and M. arenaria by Atkinson, both in 1892.

Less than 1 week left to apply for this exciting opportunity to work with nematodes in the Sunshine State!! 🐊 Don't miss out!

#WormFactWednesday is coming in hot this week with a fact about the metabolic sinks root-knot nematodes create with their feeding sites! "The giant cells of root-knot nematodes are hypermetabolic feeding sites that are located in the middle of the vascular cylinder within the roots.

This #WormFactWednesday is all about nematode defense through autonomy with card #33! "Worm-stars, produced from numerous juvenile worms stuck together at their tails by Microbacterium nematophilum, can escape by splitting in half (autonomy).

Exciting job opportunity to be a Nematology Research Scientist at the Division of Plant Industry in Gainesville, Florida! 🐊 Application closes Sunday February 9, 2025 and more information about the position can be found here: jobs.myflorida.com/job/GAINESVI...

Another Wednesday means another Worm Fact! Today we're discussing the role nematodes can play in vectoring the soil-borne plant viruses, the Tobra and Nepo Viruses! Nematodes are able to vector soil-borne viruses because their protein coat makes them stick to the stoma and esophageal lumen lining.

#WormFactWednesday is here again with Card #37 discussing the sensory perception capabilities of C. elegans! Earless nematodes hear sounds through their skin. In addition to hearing, nematodes can also taste, tough, smell, perceive light, and sense their body posture (prioception).

Happy New Year AND Worm Fact Wednesday!!! 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 by highlighting one of the Father's of Nematology, Karl Joseph Eberth! A pathologist and bacteriologist, he wrote a treatise on nematodes entitled, "Untersuchungen über nematoden" or "Studies on Nematodes", (1/4)

Exciting Post-Doc Position Opportunity! Dr. Kantor of Penn State has a 3-year post-doc position available to work on biological control strategies for managing the North American beech leaf nematode. U.S. citizenship is NOT required and the deadline to apply is January 15th, 2025

#WormFactWednesday is here to present you with card #30 - Mutant Phenotype Biology of Caenorhabditis elegans !!

#WormFactWednesday is back for round 2! This week, we have card #46 with info about Pin Nematodes (Paratylenchus spp.) The short (44 um) slender body is ventrally arcuate and the tail narrows slightly posterior to the vulva. Pin nematodes are the smallest plant-parasitic nematodes and

Our very first ever #WormFactWednesday has arrived!!! Every week, I will be randomly selecting a card from the Cobb Bowl Deck of Nematode Facts cards and will be highlighting it as the fact of the week! This week, we have card #14 about Dr. Wilhelmus M. Wouts:

Are you interested in helping create a History of SON for our website and Wikipedia?? Are you also a graduate student or post-doc with active SON membership?? Boy howdy, is this the opportunity for you!! Make sure you complete and submit your abstracts by (1/13/25) for a chance to be selected!