More kudos Search Our Site Research in the Ward Lab focuses on an extraordinary cell: the sperm cell of a microscopic worm, called Caenorhabditis elegans. Our current research projects include: Sperm development and maturation Microarray technology to identify spermatogenesis genes Evolution of genes required for sperm development Come in and look around. You may make some amazing discoveries.

Lab Interest Lab Members Alumni Sternberg Publications Protocols Pictures Worm papers (recent) Search worm literature Caltech Biology Caltech JPL-Caltech project (DARPA funded) Sternberg lab is interested in understanding the basic questions of developmental biology, neurobiology and evolution using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism... Biology Resources C. elegans WormBase ...

We study the male tail of the soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, a model system for understanding how genes can control the development, evolution and behavior of a metazoan organism.