Participation on the VIII Spanish worm Meeting in Logroño

The days 21st and 22nd of October, Anna Laromaine and our Ph.D. student Sumithra attended the congress VIII Spanish worm Meeting in Logroño while our Ph.D. student Amanda Muñoz appears on the news of her hometown. “Una investigadora riojana trabaja en Houston con los grupos que participan en el congreso científico del CIBIR” Anna Laromaine and Sumithra Srinivasan attended the VIII Spanish worm meeting in Logroño, La Rioja. The Ph.D. student Sumithra gave a talk on her Ph.D. work using C. elegans as arrhythmia models. They both enjoyed the congress that started with a keynote talk from Andrew Fire Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006, on “Opportunistic RNAs and acquisitive genomes”. The conference also had lectures and talks from several other experts in the field, and all the research groups working in C. elegans in Spain participate in this biennial conference.