Nature's Gift to Neuroscience : A Tribute to Sydney Brenner and John Sulston (Paperback)

Introduction: Nature's gift to neuroscience  Part 1: The early years of C. elegans neurogenetics  1. My life with Sydney, 1961?1971  2. John Sulston (1942?2018): a personal perspective  3. A touching story  4. But can they learn? My accidental discovery of learning and memory in C. elegans  5. Of worms and men  Part 2: Nervous system development  6. A perspective on C. elegans neurodevelopment: from early visionaries to a booming neuroscience research  7. Neuronal specification in C. elegans: combining lineage inheritance with intercellular signaling  8. Molecular mechanisms governing axonal transport: a C. elegans perspective  9. C. elegans MAGU-2/Mpp5 homolog regulates epidermal phagocytosis and synapse density  10. Synaptic remodeling, lessons from C. elegans  11. What about the males? the C. elegans sexually dimorphic nervous system and a CRISPR-based tool to study males in a hermaphroditic species  12. Cell-type-specific promoters for C. elegans glia  Part 3: From inputs to outputs  13. C. elegans: a sensible model for sensory biology  14. Temperature signaling underlying thermotaxis and cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans  15. Mechano-gated channels in C. elegans  16. What can a worm learn in a bacteria-rich habitat?  17. C. elegans aversive olfactory learning generates diverse intergenerational effects  Part 4: Social and sexual behaviors  18. Social and sexual behaviors in C. elegans: the first fifty years  19. Small molecule signals mediate social behaviors in C. elegans  20. Intraguild predation between Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans: a complex interaction with the potential for aggressive behaviour  21. Plasticity of pheromone-mediated avoidance behavior in C. elegans  Part 5: Quiescence and sleep  22. Worms sleep: a perspective  23. Cellular damage, including wounding, drives C. elegans stress-induced sleep  24. Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans  25. Discriminating between sleep and exercise-induced fatigue using computer vision and behavioral genetics  26. The OptoGenBox ? a device for long-term optogenetics in C. elegans  Part 6: Survival, aging and disease  27. Neuromodulators: an essential part of survival  28. Neuroendocrine control of lipid metabolism: lessons from C. elegans  29. The discovery and consequences of the central role of the nervous system in the control of protein homeostasis  30. Host-microbe interactions and the behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans  31. Neurogenetics of nictation, a dispersal strategy in nematodes  32. Regulatory systems that mediate the effects of temperature on the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans  33. The contribution of C. elegans neurogenetics to understanding neurodegenerative diseases  Part 7: Worm photo and art gallery  34. A journey to ‘tame a small metazoan organism’, seen through the artistic eyes of C. elegans researchers