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Jordan Ward

@gotworms.bsky.social

Associate prof, UC Santa Cruz (Go Slugs!). Worm wrangler interested in mechanisms of developmental timing, ECMs and parasites. Love good food/drink, trail running, and my wife+2 silly cats. G3 associate editor and incoming WormBoard President.

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Thanks Javier!!!

01.02.2026 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you! We’re really excited about it!

31.01.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Us too. This one hits surprisingly hard

31.01.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The CGC has added some cool functionality to improve the searchability of the site to help find appropriate strains for your research. We are working to create a consistent nomenclature. More collections to come in the future. Folks can ask questions on Worm Slack, the Alliance forum, or here! (2)

29.01.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

29.01.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! We were really happy with how it turned out! I got a lot of emails asking for advice about the AID system and it felt like this primer was lacking. It was great to work with Dave, Ann, and Aric and I love the idea of the curated strain collections!

29.01.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What tools do we need to start engineering #aging and #longevity ? A🧡about something we've been cooking up in lab with Jeremy Vicencio at the @crg.eu : technology that lets us reach inside living animals and precisely dial multiple proteins' levels up and down. 1/10

16.12.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Time to vote for our GSA officers!

Please repost

19.11.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting to see this work out in the world as it was one of the first projects launched when I started my lab.

25.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Old cogs, new clocks: a conserved protein complex controls developmental and circadian timing | The EMBO Journal EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

Cool! Thanks @embojournal.org for this great News and Views on our recent work characterizing how a conserved protein complex times C. elegans molting! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Such a fun collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social @partchlab.bsky.social

25.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shared mechanisms across distinct biological clocks:
Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social , Helge Grosshans @labgrosshans.bsky.social & collaborators find the nematode homologs of mammalian circadian clock proteins PERIOD & CK1 to control developmental timing in worms
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

21.10.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Ethan!

20.10.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So excited to see this work out! This was one of the first projects when I started my lab! An awesome collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social and @partchlab.bsky.social!

20.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!

01.10.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the life of me, I cannot fathom the rationale for any of this. Utter wanton destruction of one of the best research ecosystems in the world.

30.07.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Cool! I hope it goes well! I had a good experience with our recent submission

28.07.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is so much cool #aECM work going on but most of the researchers don’t know or talk to each other; this is an attempt to change that! Link below

17.07.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am so excited about this series. The virtual worm skin workshop was one of the best meetings for my lab and getting more model systems will beπŸ”₯

16.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)

06.07.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀯🀯🀯

09.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Better late than never, made it to #Worm25 late last night. Such a great morning catching up with old friends and seeing some great science!

01.07.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So happy to hear this! I’ve supposedly got an R35 selected for funding but the NOA is taking forever. Moving forward and hoping for the best

18.05.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Khursheed!

17.05.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Xantha! We’re proud of this one!

17.05.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right?! That was such a cool finding by Andrew.

17.05.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Matt! There is so much to be done with these strains!

17.05.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Varsha! Has been a very fun project and am excited to get it out in the world!

17.05.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

17.05.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s baby turkey season! @ucscscience.bsky.social

15.05.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!! Crazy game. Can’t believe they scored two goals in final two min with goalie pulled and won it in double OT!

05.05.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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