# C. elegans Lab at CVASU

At CVASU, we employ the free-living, non-parasitic, non-pathogenic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to study basic worm genetics, for teaching, and in the discovery of biological activity of medicinal plants.

## What the lab works on

- **Worm genetics**: We study the basic genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living nematode that is not parasitic and not pathogenic, so it can be kept safely on simple agar plates.
- **Teaching and training**: Since 2018 the lab has run demonstrations and lectures at CVASU, preparing the first batch of C. elegans researchers in Bangladesh.
- **Medicinal plant screening**: Since 2023 the team has been developing extraction protocols suited to high-throughput screening, to find beneficial biological activity in extracts from medicinal plants.

## Background reading

- [The Case for C. elegans in Anthelmintics Research](https://ctgwormlab.org/research#case-for-c-elegans)
- [The Potential of Medicinal Plants as a Source of Anthelmintics](https://ctgwormlab.org/research#medicinal-plants)

## Pages

- [Research](https://ctgwormlab.org/research)
- [Team](https://ctgwormlab.org/team)
- [Publications](https://ctgwormlab.org/publications)
- [Gallery](https://ctgwormlab.org/gallery)
- [Our story](https://ctgwormlab.org/our-story)
- [Contact](https://ctgwormlab.org/contact)

If you are interested to learn about C. elegans, join our team or are just curious, drop by in our lab at CVASU or shoot us an email!