{"id":1386,"date":"2019-07-15T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/?page_id=1386"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:51:06","slug":"c-elegans-brain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1419\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/c.elegans-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Light micrograph of Caenorhabditis elegans. Credit: Sinclair Stammers\/ Science Photo Library \/ Yan Ho, Cosmos, 2017.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/c.elegans-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/c.elegans-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/c.elegans-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2019\/07\/c.elegans.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light micrograph of <em>Caenorhabditis elegans.<\/em><br \/>Credit: Sinclair Stammers\/ Science Photo Library \/ Yan Ho, Cosmos, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In 1973, Syndey Brenner established the nematode, <em>Caenorhabditis elegans,\u00a0<\/em>as a model organism to understand the influence of genetics on behavior. <em>C. elegans\u00a0<\/em>small genome and simple anatomy were just two reasons Brenner utilized them as a tool to understand\u00a0how the nervous system operated. By 1998, <em>C. elegans\u00a0<\/em>became the first multi-organism to have its entire genome sequenced and, shortly after, to have its entire neuronal circuitry mapped. This provided a detailed model to study how neurons function together to create and form the nervous system. While studying the nervous system in a simple organism has its limitations, <em>C. elegans <\/em>are a vital tool to understand how the nervous system works, and to understand neuronal diseases in higher organisms, such as humans \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/home\/2019-projects\/c-elegans-brain\/citations\/\">Riddle et al., 1997<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Please navigate this website to learn more about <i>C.\u00a0elegans\u00a0<\/i>embryogenesis and neuronal development, as well as brain disease and the use of <i>C.\u00a0elegans <\/i>in\u00a0current brain research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1973, Syndey Brenner established the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans,\u00a0as a model organism to understand the influence of genetics on behavior. C. elegans\u00a0small genome and simple anatomy were just two reasons Brenner utilized them as a tool to understand\u00a0how the nervous system operated. By 1998, C. elegans\u00a0became the first multi-organism to have its entire genome sequenced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"parent":1372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386\/revisions\/2372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/pdbbootcamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}