The Basics of Setting up Successful Teaching Labs and Short-Term Projects with C. elegans.

C. elegans Chemotaxis Genetics Inclusive teaching Neuroscience

Journal

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
ISSN: 1940-6029
Titre abrégé: Methods Mol Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9214969

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
entrez: 23 3 2022
pubmed: 24 3 2022
medline: 26 3 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Caenorhabditis elegans is an excellent organism for teaching or doing short-term research projects because of the many freely-available comprehensive resources describing its genome and biology, its short-generation time and the ease of working with it in the lab. However, it can be daunting to begin a short-term project or a teaching lab with an organism with which one has little or no experience. Therefore, in this article, we will discuss the minimal equipment, reagents, and protocols needed to begin doing experiments with C. elegans as well as inclusive teaching practices. We will also describe a teaching laboratory for introductory or advanced neuroscience undergraduate courses where students learn to understand the relationship between genetic mutations and behavior through using chemotaxis assays. In addition, instructions for students for the lab module are provided in Subheading "Example of Teaching Lab Module for Students".

Identifiants

pubmed: 35320558
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2181-3_2
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

25-41

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Elizabeth E Glater (EE)

Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA. Elizabeth.Glater@Pomona.edu.

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