C. elegans at Leeds University, Biosystems Group

C. elegans papers

2007: An Integrated Neuro-mechanical Model of C. elegans Forward Locomotion. We integrate an existing neural model with a physical model of the worm. Not only is the neural model robust to this addition, but the waveform and frequency of the resulting oscillations are more realistic than those of the neural model alone.
2007: C. elegans BodyWall Muscles are Simple Actuators. We investigate the significance of inter-muscular gap junctions using a quantitative conductance based model.
2004: A simulation model of the locomotion controllers for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, Proceedings of Simulations of Adaptive Behavior, SAB '04
2003: A simulation model of the locomotion controllers for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (MSc Thesis)

Selected C. elegans posters

2007: Development of an algorithm for skeletonizing images of worms using edge detection.: Poster presented to the XVI C. elegans International Meeting

C. elegans videos

Video of the worm on agar (2MB mpg file): click here to view.
Video of the worm in water (2MB mpg file): click here to view.
Video of the simulation (1.7MB mpg file): click here to view.
Video of a simulation demonstrating the effect (faster oscillations and larger amplitude without change of phase-lag) of modulating AVB (3.6 MB mpg file): click here to view.
Video showing a simulation where tail of the worm is in a fixed position (800K mpg file): click here to view.

Contacts

For further information, please email Netta Cohen