Organizers
Worm 2025 is organized by esteemed members of the GSA community. Thank you to these dedicated volunteers!
Cathy Savage-Dunn
City University of New York, Queens College and the Graduate Center
Baris Tursun
University of Hamburg
Javier Apfeld, Northeastern University
Luisa Cochella, Johns Hopkins University
Chaogu Zheng, University of Hong Kong
Erin Osborne Nishimura, Colorado State University
Michael Hart, University of Pennsylvania
Ho Yi Mak, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ten-Wen Lo, Ithaca College
Michael Ailion | Serena Ding | Diana Libuda | Claire Richardson |
Erik Andersen | Kelsie Eichel | James Lightfoot | Valérie Robert |
Suzanne Angeli | Florian Geisler | Qiang Liu | Christian Rocheleau |
Javier Apfeld | Arjumand Ghazi | Te-Wen Lo | Arneet Saltzman |
Rabia Ashraf | Tina Gumienny | Jayant Maini | Ryo Sanabria |
Vincent Bertrand | Bhagwati Gupta | Ho Yi Mak | Monika Scholz |
Christian Braendle | Julie Hall | Marco Mangone | Nathan Schroeder |
Nick Burton | Sarah Hall | Paul Mark Medina | Erich Schwarz |
Karl Emanuel Busch | Wendy Hanna-Rose | Xue Mei | Meenakshi Sharma |
Alexandra Byrne | Michael Hart | Peter Meister | Jessica Sowa |
Wei Cao | Greg Hermann | Patrick Narbonne | Hemalatha Sundaramoorthi |
Carlos Carvalho | E. Jane Hubbard | Rosa Navarro | Jessica Tanis |
Fung-Yi Chan | Yuichi Iino | Inna Nechipurenko | Maja Tarailo-Graovac |
Chun-Hao Chen | Rene Ketting | Kentaro Noma | Dustin Updike |
Chang-Shi Chen | Paschalis Kratsios | Kenneth Norman | Han Wang |
Salvatore Cherra | Michael Krieg | Erin Osborne Nishimura | David Weinkove |
Yee Lian Chew | Sagi Levy | Roger Pocock | Suhong Xu |
Luisa Cochella | Nicole Liachko | Aaron Reinke | Dong Yan |
Mario de Bono | Chaogu Zheng |
Equity and Inclusion Session Organizers
Javier Huayta, Duke University
Aimee Jaramillo-Lambert, University of Delaware
Priscilla Van Whynberghe, Colgate University
Worm Art Show Organizers
Sandhya P. Koushika, DBS-TIFR, India
Varsha Singh, University of Dundee, UK
GSA Poster Award Competition Organizers
Tina Gumienny, Texas Woman’s University
Alicia Rogers, University of Texas at Arlington
Jared Young, Northeastern University