We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award recipients from the 25th International Worm Meeting! Undergraduate and graduate student GSA members were eligible for these awards, and a hard-working team of judges made the determinations.

Congratulations to all!

Special thanks to our Poster Chairs Tina L. Gumienny (Texas Woman’s University), Jared Young (Northeastern University), and Alicia Kathryn Rogers (The University of Texas at Arlington).


Kehinde Joan Abayomi, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

Category: Gene Regulation & Genomics

Poster title: “Transcriptome and Translatome Profiling of Domain-Specific lotr-1 Alleles to Understand Epigenetic Regulation in the Germline”


Ilana Albert, Northeastern University

Category: Neurobiology

Poster title: “Characterizing multiple mechanosensory behaviors through development”


Anushree Gurjar, University of Delaware

Category: Development

Poster title: “Identification of a new gene important to sperm activation in C. elegans”


Pearson McIntire, University of Nevada, Reno

Category: Physiology

Poster title: “Mitochondrial ROS spikes as a somnogenic signal from metabolic tissues”


Ava Remoll, Ithaca College

Category: Undergraduate

Poster title: “Exploring connections between dystrophinopathies and autism spectrum disorder: Investigating the role of dys-1 in C. elegans social feeding behavior”


Dalaena Rivera, San Diego State University

Category: Ecology & Evolution

Poster title: “Conjugative plasmids are associated with commensal bacterial attachment to the intestinal epithelium”


Sandeep Venkatraman, KU Leuven

Category: Neurobiology

Poster title: “Peptidergic signalling establishing experience-dependent behavioral states in C. elegans


YuXuan (Rain) Xiong, University of British Columbia

Category: Cell Biology

Poster title: “Twisting Cytokinesis: Cell Adhesion and Cortical Flow Underlie Chiral Morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos”