Volume 107: CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS: Cell Biology and Physiology, 2nd Edition

Key Features

• Diverse, up-to-date techniques covered will be useful to the broadening community of C. elegans researchers for years to come
• Chapters written by leaders in the field
• Tried and true methods deliver busy researchers a one-stop compendium of essential protocols

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS: Cell Biology and Physiology, 2nd Edition

1. Imaging

1. High-resolution Imaging of Cellular Processes in C. elegans

Amy S. Maddox and Paul S. Maddox

2. Immunofluorescence Microscopy

Diane C. Shakes, David Miller and Michael L. Nonet

3. Fluorescent Protein Methods: Strategies and Applications

Harald Hutter

4. Modern Electron Microscopy Methods for C. elegans

David H. Hall, Erika Hartwieg, and Ken C.Q. Nguyen

2. Cell Biology

5. Culture and Manipulation of Embryonic Cells

Lois G. Edgar and Bob Goldstein

6. Laser Microsurgery in Caenorhabditis elegans

Christopher Fang-Yen, Christopher V. Gabel, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel, Cornelia I. Bargmann, and Leon Avery

7. Analysis of Cell polarity

Tobias Wiesenfahrt, Olaf Bossinger, and Carrie Cowan

8. Analysis of Organelles

Hanna Fares and Alex M. van der Bliek

9. C. elegans Cell Cycle Analysis

Sander Van den Heuvel and Edward Kipreos

3. Physiology

10. Methods for Studying Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans

Yi-chun Wu, Xiaochen Wang, and Ding Xue

11. Methods for Studying the DNA Damage Response in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

Ashley L. Craig, Sandra C. Moser, Aymeric P. Bailly and Anton Gartner

12. Analysis of Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans

Deepti Srinivas Wilkinson, Rebecca C. Taylor, and Andrew Dillin

13. Analyses of C. elegans Fat Metabolic Pathways

Alexandre Guimarães de Almeida Barros, Jason Liu, George A. Lemiuex, Brendan C. Mullaney, and Kaveh Ashrafi

14. Electrophysiological Methods for C. elegans Neurobiology

Miriam B. Goodman, Theodore H. Lindsay, Shawn R. Lockery, and Janet E. Richmond