NeMys is back!

As you have noticed, NeMys has been offline during the last few months but I have good news for all nematologists.The NeMys website is back online since 1 march 2009.

According to the NeMys team, some aspects still are not optimally running. Within the next weeks you may expect changes and updates to the system in order to get everything back to the same level as before the crash!

The NeMys team is also asking users to register themselves again to the system.


For those who do not know, NeMys is a generic online species information system. It wants to act as a digital platform, storing all kinds of information for biological taxa. Storing data on morphology, biogeography, taxonomy, literature, pictures, collections and molecular aspects in one single dataset creates a large group of possible end users and allows data analysis and comparison for a specific taxonomic group from a variety of approaches. The generic architecture is reflected by the variety of databases available through this system: plants, animals (vertebrates and invertebrates).

You can acess the NeMys page here.

Wageningen's Nematoda Identification Course in 2009

The traditional Nematoda Identification Course offered by the Wageningen University will happen from 2nd to 13th of February 2009.

The course, running since 1985, is delivered in English due to the high international interest and takes two weeks full-time. There are no specific demands to follow this course but they expect that participants are aware of the general anatomy and morphology of nematodes. The microscopic work will be alternated by oral presentations, also by guest speakers, and the possibility exists to extract nematodes from own samples. The course will be finished by a test for which the participants are asked to identify ten nematode specimens till species level. The course will be taught by Tom Bongers, assisted by Hanny van Megen and others.

For more information visit the course page or contact Lisette Groeneveld on: Lisette.Groeneveld@wur.nl.

Wageningen Nematode Identification Course

The University of Wageningen (Netherlands) offers every year a course about identification of terrestrial and aquatic nematodes. Usually the course is in June but this year was antecipated to February.

Behind the identification part, the course also has an approach about ecological aspects of the Nematoda group.

The course will be ministrated from 12 to 23 February.

Many participants from different places (Canada, Germany, Switzerland, USA, England) already confirmed their presence but the inscriptions are still open...

Fore more information take a look here...