The use of relatively simple model organisms, including the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, is fundamental for the attribution of clinical significance to rare genomic variants, the discovery of basic biological processes conserved during evolution, as well as for pharmacology, toxicology, and parasitology studies.
The international C. elegans community has always encouraged exchanging information, know-how, and materials.
Following this tradition and given the recent increase in the number of Italian researchers interested in C. elegans, in 2007, an Italian community was established to disclose the potential of this model to the Italian researchers working with different models.