Bowdoin College

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Developmental Biology

Samantha K. Barry¹, Taro Nakamura², Yuji Matsuoka³, Christoph Straub⁴, Hadley W. Horch⁴, Cassandra G. Extavour⁵

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. Engel², Tomas Donatelli Pitfield², Isabella M.W. Vakkur²

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.