Bowdoin College
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Developmental Biology
Injecting Gryllus bimaculatus Eggs
Samantha K. Barry 1, Taro Nakamura 2, Yuji Matsuoka 3, Christoph Straub 4, Hadley W. Horch 4, Cassandra G. Extavour 5
1Colby College, 2Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, 3Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 4Department Biology and Department of Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, 5Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Here we present a protocol to inject cricket eggs, a technique which serves as a foundational method in many experiments in the cricket, including, but not limited to, RNA interference and genomic manipulation.
Neuroscience
Combining Behavior and EEG to Study the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Episodic Memory
Erika Nyhus 1,2, William A. Engel 2, Tomas Donatelli Pitfield 2, Isabella M.W. Vakkur 2
1Department of Psychology, Bowdoin College, 2Program in Neuroscience, Bowdoin College
Here we present a protocol for combining mindfulness meditation training, an episodic memory task, and EEG to understand the behavioral and neural effects of mindfulness meditation on episodic memory.
