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.
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
Such a fun collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social @partchlab.bsky.social
Old cogs, new clocks: a conserved protein complex controls developmental and circadian timing | The EMBO Journal
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October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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
Such a fun collaboration with @labgrosshans.bsky.social @partchlab.bsky.social
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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....
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....
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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....
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....
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!
And the next one: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00585-z . Super-fun collaboration with @partchlab.bsky.social & @gotworms.bsky.social to find similarities between developmental and circadian clocks – supported by @fmiscience.bsky.social Facilities and, financially, @snsf.ch and @erc.europa.eu . 1/n
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!
Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!
Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans
📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!
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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.
NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
www.wsj.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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.
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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
... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
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 be🔥
... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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 be🔥
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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!)
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
July 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
🪱🍻
(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)
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July 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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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!
July 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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!
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!
Up on biorxiv! The tour de force protein tagging atlas for the #Celegans cuticle #aECM - from Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social and Andrew Chisholm labs. So many beautiful images of cuticle collagen substructures !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiscale patterning of a model apical extracellular matrix revealed by systematic endogenous protein tagging
Barrier epithelia are shielded from the external environment by their apical extracellular matrices (aECMs). The molecular complexity of aECMs has challenged understanding of their organization in viv...
www.biorxiv.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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!
It’s baby turkey season! @ucscscience.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s baby turkey season! @ucscscience.bsky.social
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!
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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!
Really excited about this collaborative work and a great experience with Review Commons
A conserved chronobiological complex times C. elegans development.
Latest research from the Ward lab @gotworms.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and Grosshans lab @labgrosshans.bsky.social @fmiscience.bsky.social
Latest research from the Ward lab @gotworms.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and Grosshans lab @labgrosshans.bsky.social @fmiscience.bsky.social
A conserved chronobiological complex times C. elegans development
The mammalian PAS-domain protein PERIOD (PER) and its C. elegans orthologue LIN-42 have been proposed to constitute an evolutionary link between two distinct, circadian and developmental, timing syste...
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Really excited about this collaborative work and a great experience with Review Commons
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How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
How did Coati get their stripes? Not yet known ... but we know how another Carnivore loses them! 3 mutations in gene TAQPEP changes a cat from tabby striped to blotchy #RIP #2025MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Glad I could play a small part in this cool story!
Our new paper out @plos.org @ciml.bsky.social @centuri-ls.bsky.social
Fantastic collaborations 👏Antonina Andreeva #EBI-EMBL, Claire Valotteau @DyNaMo @felix_rico, Andrew Chisholm, Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social, and great discussions with @meera-sundaram.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Fantastic collaborations 👏Antonina Andreeva #EBI-EMBL, Claire Valotteau @DyNaMo @felix_rico, Andrew Chisholm, Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social, and great discussions with @meera-sundaram.bsky.social
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Glad I could play a small part in this cool story!
Congrats Callista!
I feel so incredibly honoured to announce that I've just accepted an offer to join UBC Zoology as an assistant professor. I have met so many brilliant trainees and scientists while on the job market. I also connected with so many amazing and passionate teaching faculty.
March 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Congrats Callista!
Delighted to see Flow win best animated feature. Gorgeous, powerful film.
March 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Delighted to see Flow win best animated feature. Gorgeous, powerful film.
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WTAF
More hits to #NIH:
"The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed." 🧪
@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org
"The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed." 🧪
@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
WTAF
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I call BS
The Trump administration said in a court filing late Feb. 25 night that it ‘cannot’ meet a federal judge's 11:59 p.m. Feb. 26 deadline for releasing frozen funds to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients, potentially setting the stage for it to openly disobey the order reut.rs/4h0ni3t
February 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Tomorrow I’m having a conversation with Senator Murray about NIH on my public Instagram - @sciencewhizliz.
The timing could shift a bit due to the senate floor schedule. So if that happens we will adjust and share the recording!
The timing could shift a bit due to the senate floor schedule. So if that happens we will adjust and share the recording!
February 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Tomorrow I’m having a conversation with Senator Murray about NIH on my public Instagram - @sciencewhizliz.
The timing could shift a bit due to the senate floor schedule. So if that happens we will adjust and share the recording!
The timing could shift a bit due to the senate floor schedule. So if that happens we will adjust and share the recording!
Exactly. My R35 council meeting has been cancelled without clear rescheduling. No idea when I know if I can keep lab funded. MRAC study section I reviewed for cancelled at last minute. So much wasted effort and anxiety for folks.
This is a distinction without a difference. If there are no council meetings, funding is still being withheld and reviewer time is being wasted.
UPDATE: NIH CSR will soon be able to publish a small set of Federal Register Notices (FRNs) - 50 or so. The lead time between notice and meeting will be reduced back to 30 days (from 35).
ICs might be allowed to resume publishing FRNs next week. An "indefinite hold" on Councils remains.
ICs might be allowed to resume publishing FRNs next week. An "indefinite hold" on Councils remains.
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Exactly. My R35 council meeting has been cancelled without clear rescheduling. No idea when I know if I can keep lab funded. MRAC study section I reviewed for cancelled at last minute. So much wasted effort and anxiety for folks.
Welp the NIGMS MIRA MRAC study section scheduled to be in person this Monday and Tuesday was just canceled.
February 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Welp the NIGMS MIRA MRAC study section scheduled to be in person this Monday and Tuesday was just canceled.
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Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.
They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.
They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze
On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.
delauro.house.gov
February 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.
They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.
They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
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Ro Khanna is on r/fednews soliciting stories from illegally fired federal workers
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From the fednews community on Reddit: Congressman Ro Khanna here - taking the fight to the Trump Administration, but we need your help.
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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February 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Ro Khanna is on r/fednews soliciting stories from illegally fired federal workers
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