Begin by plating approximately 3, 500 C.elgans F1 generation embryos on 14 plates and allow them to grow to the young adult stage for three days at 21 degrees Celsius. Wash and collect the C.elgans into 1.5-milliliter tubes using PBS/TX. Centrifuge at 1000 G for two minutes, aspirate, and pull the worms from one strain into one tube.
Repeat three washes with PBS/TX. Next, aspirate the supernatant leaving one milliliter in the tube and invert to mix. After counting the number of C.elgans worms in three microliters three times, calculate the concentration of worms and transfer a volume corresponding to 3000 worms to a new tube for formaldehyde cross-linking.
