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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis Exp. 2019 Jun 6;(148):10.3791/59533. doi: 10.3791/59533

Materials

Name Company Catalog Number Comments
Steps 1–4
Concavity slides ThermoFisher Scientific 1519006 5–18mm diameter, 0.6–0.8mm deep, 1.2–1.5mm
Dissecting microscope with 10×– 50× zoom range Motic SMZ-171
E. coli (OP50) Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) OP50
Glass coverslips, no. 1.5, 24 × 50 mm VWR International 48393–241
M9 Buffer Stiernagle, T. Maintenance of C. elegans. WormBook. 1–11, doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.101.1, (2006).
Methyl cellulose Sigma-Aldrich H7509–25G
Microcapillary pipette aspirator tube Sigma-Aldrich A5177
Microcapillary pipettes, 0.4-mm i.d Drummond Scientific 1–000-800
Needle, no. 18G x 1 ½ (1.2mm x 40mm) BD Precision Glide 305196
NGM plates prepared as described by Brenner (1974)
O-ring for imaging chamber O-Rings West M1.5X40
Pasteur pipette Corning/Sigma-Aldrich CLS7095D5X
Platinum wire, 0.5-mm diameter Sigma-Aldrich 267201
Poly-L-lysine Sigma-Aldrich P1524
Stainless steel rectangular chamber (76.0 mm x 50.5 mm) Applied Scientifics Instrumentations (ASI) I2450
Worm Eyelash Pick Hart, A. C. Behavior. WormBook.
(2006).
Worm Pick Stiernagle, T. Maintenance of
C. elegans. WormBook. 1–11, doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.101.1, (2006).
Name Company Catalog Number Comments
Steps 5–6
488 nm long-pass filter Semrock LP02–488 RU-2
561-nm notch filter Semrock NF03–561E-25
BLP02–561R-25, quantity 2 Semrock 561 nm EdgeBasic best-value long-pass edge filter
Control software for bottom camera Jenoptik ProgRes CapturePro
diSIPM assembly video Applied Scientifics Instrumentations (ASI) https://youtu.be/TAgbr6IrTqw ; http://www.asiimaging.com
diSPIM alignment video Applied Scientifics Instrumentations (ASI) https://youtu.be/qnOrg30NNuE
diSPIM imaging PC Intel Intel Xeon CPU E5–2630 2.6GHz, 12 cores in total, 64 GB memory, Windows 7
FF01–525/45–25, quantity 2 Semrock 525/45 nm BrightLine single-band bandpass filter
FF555-DI03–25X36, quantity 2 Semrock 555 nm edge BrightLine single- edge dichroic beamsplitter
Imaging PC Graphics Card NVIDIDA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
graphics cards
Kumar et al diSPIM Setup Applied Scientifics Instrumentations (ASI) Instrument setup for this protocol
is identical to Kumar et al 10,11 diSPIM, which makes use of 40× 0.8NA water immersion lenses for imaging. (See steps 5.1 and note)
Micro Manager Micro-Manager https://micro-manager.org/
Modifications to Kumar et al diSPIM Setup (see below)
Optical table with isolators, 4 feet × 6 feet × 12 inches TMC 784–651-02DR and 14–416-34
Name Company Catalog Number Comments
Steps 7–10
Analysis PC Intel Intel Core i7–8700K CPU 3.70GHz, 6 cores in total, 64 GB memory, Windows 10
Analysis PC Graphics Card NVIDIDA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
graphics cards
Installation instructions Software bundle http://dispimlineage.wormguides.org/ diSPIMlineaging_InstallationInstructi
Software bundle Software bundle http://dispimlineage.wormguides.org