From The Archive: Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2012)

Cover Artwork: Alice in Wormderland

Greg Nelson

Introducing: New types of Gazette content

Jane Mendel, Editor, WormBook

The million mutation project – a genetic resource for C. elegans.

Donald G. Moerman, Pnina Strasbourger, Owen Thompson, Ryan Adair, Vinci Au, Iasha Chaudhry, Mark Edgley, Brent Ewing, Lisa Fernando, Stephane Flibotte, Amber High, LaDeana Hillier, Harald Hutter, Joanne Lau, Norris Lee, Angela Miller, Greta Raymant, Jay Shendure, Jon Taylor, Emily H. Turner and Robert Waterston

WormWiring: A new online resource for nematode connectivity

Steven Cook, Christopher Brittin, David Hall and Scott Emmons

Whole genome sequence analysis for novices

Pete Okkema and Adelaide Packard

UCSC Genome Browser

Raymond Lee

A universal Cbr-unc-119::FRT*::galk::FRT* template for recombineering and biolistics

Patricia E Kuwabara and Mengmeng Qiao

A protocol for constructing and characterizing transgenic nematodes expressing stress-tolerant gene TPS1 of yeast in dauer larva stage

Zsófia Csanádi, Katalin Bélafi – Bakó1, Abate Birhan Addisie, Anita Alexa, Barnabás Jenes, Zsófia Bánfalvi, Éva Lehoczky and András Fodor

Unnatural amino-acid tagging and read-through of nonsense stop codons in multicopy transgene arrays

Emily Barker, Maria Joao Gravato-Nobre and Jonathan Hodgkin

Artifacts in L1 starvation assay

Alexander B. Artyukhin and Leon Avery

M9 and nlp-29: standard buffer can induce antimicrobial peptide gene expression

Nathalie Pujol and Jonathan Ewbank

A new Daf (DAuer Flatulence) phenotype?

Nathan E. Schroeder and Maureen M. Barr

Cloning of che-6 and che-7

Heidi K. Smith and Oliver Hobert

Gnotobiological analysis of entomopathogenic nematode/bacterium symbiotic associations on ENGM media leading to some co-evolutionary conclusions

András Fodor, Byron Adams, Erzsébet Böszörményi, Richard Ffrench-Constant, Éva Lehoczky, Judit Marokházi and István Venekei

Entomopathogenic nematodes: from sequence to biology is a one-way street?

András Fodor

Highlighted methods publication: Cell type specific purification of nuclei for expression and chromatin profiling

Florian A. Steiner and Steven Henikoff

Highlighted methods publication: BMP (Biomechanical profiling of C. elegans motility) – a new tool for quantifying C. elegans locomotion

Predrag Krajacic, Xiaoning Shen, Prashant K. Purohit, Paulo Arratia and Todd Lamitina

Highlighted methods publication: Sequential RNAi reveals a role for SET proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation

Michael B. Wells and Gyorgyi Csankovszki

Highlighted methods publication: Resolution doubling in live, multicellular organisms via multifocal structured illumination microscopy

Andrew York, Sapun Parekh, Damian Dalle Nogare, Robert S. Fischer, Kelsey Temprine, Marina Mione, Ajay B. Chitnis, Christian A. Combs and Hari Shroff

Highlighted methods publication: Finding protein functions by quantitative mass spectrometry

Julius Fredens and Nils J. Færgeman

Notable recent papers in biochemistry

Patricia E. Kuwabara, editor of the Biochemistry section of WormBook

Notable recent papers in genetics and genomics

Jonathan Hodgkin, editor of the Genetics and genomics section of WormBook

Notable recent papers in reproductive biology

Andrew Singson, editor of the Develpmental control section of WormBook

New lab announcement: Steve Hodgkinson and Isabelle Hellwig at University of Ulm

Steve Hodgkinson

New lab announcement: Michelle Mondoux at College of the Holy Cross

Michelle A. Mondoux

New lab announcement: Priscilla Van Wynsberghe at Colgate University

Priscilla Van Wynsberghe

New lab announcement: Ronen Zaidel-Bar at National University of Singapore

Ronen Zaidel-Bar

Back Cover: Close Encounters of the Elegant Worms

Martina Hajduskova