#WORM15 - Keep up with the meeting buzz and join in the discussion. Live tweeting of presentations is allowed unless the speaker explicitly opts out by stating so at the start of their talk. Taking or sharing photos or videos of data displayed in slides or posters is not permitted without the presenter's consent.

Alex Hajnal earned a Master in Biochemistry from the University of Zurich in 1989. During his PhD in the Department of Cancer Research at Zurich University he studied gene expression in revertants of HRAS transformed cancer cells, receiving a PhD degree in 1993. After a short Postdoc working on muscle cell differentiation in the lab of Helen Blau in 1994, he joined the lab of Stuart Kim at Stanford University, where he made first contact with worms. After returning to Zurich in 1997, he continued his work on cell fate determination and signal transduction in C. elegans as a junior group leader at the Department of Cancer Research. Since 2001, he is Professor at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Zurich.

Yishi Jin received her B.S. degree in Biology from Peking University, China, and her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral training under H. Robert Horvitz at MIT. She began her assistant professor position at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is now a professor of neurobiology and of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is interested in understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms controlling synapse formation and function, and axon regeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.