WormBook Staff Changes & New Chapter

Dear WormBook Readers,

In July, WormBook Editor Lisa Girard moved to a position at the Harvard
Stem Cell Institute. Lisa guided WormBook from its beginning, and her
creativity, dedication, and efficiency were essential for its success.
Lisa was involved in all aspects of WormBook production: she prodded
authors, reviewers, and editorial board members to keep WormBook on
schedule, edited and oversaw the publication of 140 chapters on the web,
and successfully negotiated WormBook's inclusion on the NIH Bookshelf and
in PubMed. Lisa leaves WormBook in excellent shape. We wish her continued
success in her new position.

We are fortunate that Jane Mendel has joined us as the new WormBook
Editor. Jane, a WormBook author, is a Senior Research Associate and
Lecturer at Caltech, and has a strong background in C. elegans research as
well as experience in teaching Introductory Biology and in using C.
elegans as a teaching tool.

In August, Tristan Fiedler, who led our software development group, also
left WormBook. He accepted a faculty position at the Florida Institute of
Technology involving academic development, research, and teaching. Tristan
guided the development of every aspect of the web site. He developed the
methods to convert manuscripts to web-ready articles and designed the
initial layout of the web site. He also integrated Textpresso into the
WormBook pipeline and managed the website since inception. His input on
all aspects of WormBook will be missed.

After a quiet period, WormBook has just added a new chapter to the
Post-embryonic development section:

Dauer - Patrick J. Hu
http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_dauer/dauer.html

Please visit WormBook (http://www.wormbook.org) to read this and other
chapters.

Thank you for your interest in WormBook. Please continue to send us your
comments and suggestions via the Feedback page on wormbook.org.

Best regards!

Daniel Wang
Production Manager, WormBook
http://www.wormbook.org
WormBase and Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. Calif Blvd., Pasadena CA 91125
email: qwang@caltech.edu
Received on Mon Aug 13 15:17:18 2007