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Means to an End: Apoptosis and Other Cell Death Mechanisms

By Douglas R. Green, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

© 2011 • 220 pp., additional reading, index
Paperback • $46.00 • ISBN 978-0-879698-88-1

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Means to an End: Apoptosis and Other Cell Death Mechanisms

By Douglas R. Green, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

© 2011 • 220 pp., additional reading, index
Hardcover • $81.00 • ISBN 978-0-879698-87-4

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Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual

Edited By James Sharpe, EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit, Barcelona, Spain; Rachel Wong, University of Washington; Series Editor, Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University

© 2011 • 883 pp., illus., index
Paperback • $169.00 $118.30 • ISBN 978-0-879699-40-6

New imaging technologies have revolutionized the study of developmental biology. Where researchers once struggled to connect events at static timepoints, imaging tools now offer the ability to visualize the dynamic form and function of molecules, cells, tissues, and whole embryos throughout the entire developmental process. Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual, a new volume in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press’ Imaging series, presents a comprehensive set of essential visualization methods. The manual features primers on live imaging of a variety of standard model organisms including C. elegans, Drosophila, zebrafish, Xenopus, avian species, and mouse. Further techniques are organized by the level of visualization they provide, from cells to tissues and organs to whole embryos. Methods range from the basics of labeling cells to cutting-edge protocols for high-speed imaging, optical projection tomography, and digital scanned laser light-sheet fluorescence. Imaging has become a required methodology for developmental biologists, and Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual provides the detailed explanations and instructions for mastering these necessary techniques.

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Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual

Edited By James Sharpe, EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit, Barcelona, Spain; Rachel Wong, University of Washington; Series Editor, Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University

© 2011 • 883 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $246.00 $172.20 • ISBN 978-0-879699-39-0

New imaging technologies have revolutionized the study of developmental biology. Where researchers once struggled to connect events at static timepoints, imaging tools now offer the ability to visualize the dynamic form and function of molecules, cells, tissues, and whole embryos throughout the entire developmental process. Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual, a new volume in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press’ Imaging series, presents a comprehensive set of essential visualization methods. The manual features primers on live imaging of a variety of standard model organisms including C. elegans, Drosophila, zebrafish, Xenopus, avian species, and mouse. Further techniques are organized by the level of visualization they provide, from cells to tissues and organs to whole embryos. Methods range from the basics of labeling cells to cutting-edge protocols for high-speed imaging, optical projection tomography, and digital scanned laser light-sheet fluorescence. Imaging has become a required methodology for developmental biologists, and Imaging in Developmental Biology: A Laboratory Manual provides the detailed explanations and instructions for mastering these necessary techniques.

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The p53 Family

Edited By Arnold J. Levine, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; David P. Lane, A *Star (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore

© 2010 • 360 pp., illus. (48 color, 19 b/w), index
Trim size: 7” x 10”
Hardcover • $135 • ISBN 978-0-879698-30-0

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Drosophila Neurobiology: A Laboratory Manual

Edited By Bing Zhang, University of Oklahoma; Marc R. Freeman, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Scott Waddell, University of Massachusetts Medical School

© 2010 • 534 pp., illus. (70 color, 43 b/w), appendix, index
Trim size: 8-1/2” x 10-7/8”
Paperback • $154.00 • ISBN 978-0-879699-05-5

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Drosophila Neurobiology: A Laboratory Manual

Edited By Bing Zhang, University of Oklahoma; Marc R. Freeman, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Scott Waddell, University of Massachusetts Medical School

© 2010 • 534 pp., illus. (70 color, 43 b/w), appendix, index
Trim size: 8-1/2” x 10-7/8”
Hardcover • $256.00 • ISBN 978-0-879699-04-8

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Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Volume 2

© 2010 • 624 pp., illus. (102 b/w), appendices, index
Trim size: 8-1/2” x 10-7/8”
Paperback • $91.00 • ISBN 978-0-879698-65-2

This second volume of the groundbreaking Emerging Model Organisms series expands the collection of species presented in the first volume. Leading experts provide 18 new chapters on emerging model systems, ranging from honeybee, ant, and beetle to Ciona and amphioxus; squid and salamander to yam, Paramecium, and wallaby. Like the first volume, each chapter presents a new organism and provides a detailed explanation of why it is useful for laboratory research, along with information on husbandry, genetics and genomics, pointers toward further resources, and a set of basic laboratory protocols for working with that organism. Emerging Model Organisms serves as a practical guidebook for finding just the right organism to address specific research needs.

Review of Volume 1:
“The first volume of Emerging Model Organisms illustrates the bewildering variety of natural histories and rapidly advancing techniques that have been developed to work with a wide spectrum of organisms. If Darwin were around now, he would have been the first to happily make use of this manual—and would be impatiently awaiting the forthcoming tome, describing the emergence of honeybees, squids, ascidians, rabbits, ants...and many more.” —Nature Cell Biology

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Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Volume 2

© 2010 • 624 pp., illus. (102 b/w), appendices, index
Trim size: 8-1/2” x 10-7/8”
Hardcover • $162.00 • ISBN 978-0-879699-45-1

This second volume of the groundbreaking Emerging Model Organisms series expands the collection of species presented in the first volume. Leading experts provide 18 new chapters on emerging model systems, ranging from honeybee, ant, and beetle to Ciona and amphioxus; squid and salamander to yam, Paramecium, and wallaby. Like the first volume, each chapter presents a new organism and provides a detailed explanation of why it is useful for laboratory research, along with information on husbandry, genetics and genomics, pointers toward further resources, and a set of basic laboratory protocols for working with that organism. Emerging Model Organisms serves as a practical guidebook for finding just the right organism to address specific research needs.

Review of Volume 1:
“The first volume of Emerging Model Organisms illustrates the bewildering variety of natural histories and rapidly advancing techniques that have been developed to work with a wide spectrum of organisms. If Darwin were around now, he would have been the first to happily make use of this manual—and would be impatiently awaiting the forthcoming tome, describing the emergence of honeybees, squids, ascidians, rabbits, ants...and many more.” —Nature Cell Biology

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Symmetry Breaking in Biology

Edited By Rong Li, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research; Bruce Bowerman, Institute of Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, University of Oregon

© 2010 • 301 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $135 $33.75 • ISBN 978-0-879698-89-8

Symmetry breaking events are critical for the survival of living systems. They are required for cell division, development, and movement in all organisms from single-celled species to human beings. Moreover, in multicellular organisms, symmetry breaking allows the generation of cells with different fates and underpins the complex arrangement of tissues and organs achieved during embryogenesis.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this volume explores how symmetry breaking occurs in biology and the roles of these events at numerous different levels. The contributors examine the mechanisms by which cells polarize, divide asymmetrically, and produce asymmetric structures, providing examples from bacteria, yeast, plants, invertebrates, and mammals.

Including discussions of the molecular basis of polarization mechanisms, asymmetric division of stem cells during development, the generation of left-right asymmetry of the body axis in mammals, and theoretical approaches to symmetry breaking, the volume is a vital reference for molecular, cell, and developmental biologists, as well as physical scientists interested in how and why symmetry breaking occurs in living systems.