Earlham College

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Developmental Biology

Caenorhabditis Sieve: A Low-tech Instrument and Methodology for Sorting Small Multicellular Organisms

Skyler Hunter^*1,2, Malabika Maulik^*3, Courtney Scerbak⁴, Elena Vayndorf², Barbara E. Taylor⁵

¹Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, ²Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, ³Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, ⁴Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Earlham College, ⁵Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, California State University Long Beach

The current protocol includes a methodology for the sorting and cleaning of age-matched populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. It uses a simple, inexpensive, and efficient custom-made tool to obtain a large experimental population of nematodes for research.

Behavior

A Low-Cost, Odor-Reward Association Task for Tests of Learning and Memory

Abduselam K. Awol¹, Michelle T. Tong^1,2

¹Neuroscience Program, Earlham College, ²Neuroscience Program & Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas

An odor-reward, associative learning task was used to investigate the differential effects of physiological manipulation on long-term and short-term memory.