Nature's Gift to Neuroscience A Tribute to Sydney Brenner and John Sulston

Introduction: Nature's gift to neuroscience 
Joy Alcedo, Yishi Jin, Douglas S. Portman, Veena Prahlad, David Raizen, Georgia Rapti, X.Z. Shawn Xu, Yun Zhang, and Chun-Fang Wu 
Part 1: The early years of C. elegans neurogenetics 
1. My life with Sydney, 1961–1971 
Antony O. W. Stretton 
2. John Sulston (1942–2018): a personal perspective 
Robert H. Waterston and Donald G. Moerman 
3. A touching story 
Martin Chalfie 
4. But can they learn? My accidental discovery of learning and memory in C. elegans 
Catharine H. Rankin 
5. Of worms and men 
John White 
Part 2: Nervous system development 
6. A perspective on C. elegans neurodevelopment: from early visionaries to a booming neuroscience research 
Georgia Rapti 
7. Neuronal specification in C. elegans: combining lineage inheritance with intercellular signaling 
Antoine Barrière and Vincent Bertrand 
8. Molecular mechanisms governing axonal transport: a C. elegans perspective 
Amruta Vasudevan and Sandhya P. Koushika 
9. C. elegans MAGU-2/Mpp5 homolog regulates epidermal phagocytosis and synapse density 
Salvatore J. Cherra III, Alexandr Goncharov, Daniela Boassa, Mark Ellisman, and Yishi Jin 
10. Synaptic remodeling, lessons from C. elegans 
Andrea Cuentas-Condori and David M. Miller, 3^rd 
11. What about the males? the C. elegans sexually dimorphic nervous system and a CRISPR-based tool to study males in a hermaphroditic species 
Jonathon D. Walsh, Olivier Boivin, and Maureen M. Barr 
12. Cell-type-specific promoters for C. elegans glia 
Wendy Fung, Leigh Wexler, and Maxwell G. Heiman  
Part 3: From inputs to outputs 
13. C. elegans: a sensible model for sensory biology 
Adam J. Iliff and X.Z. Shawn Xu 
14. Temperature signaling underlying thermotaxis and cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans 
Asuka Takeishi, Natsune Takagaki, and Atsushi Kuhara 
15. Mechano-gated channels in C. elegans 
Umar Al-Sheikh and Lijun Kang 
16. What can a worm learn in a bacteria-rich habitat? 
He Liu and Yun Zhang 
17. C. elegans aversive olfactory learning generates diverse intergenerational effects 
Ana Goncalves Pereira, Xicotencatl Gracida, Konstantinos Kagias and Yun Zhang 
Part 4: Social and sexual behaviors 
18. Social and sexual behaviors in C. elegans: the first fifty years 
Douglas S. Portman 
19. Small molecule signals mediate social behaviors in C. elegans 
Caroline S. Muirhead and Jagan Srinivasan 
20. Intraguild predation between Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans: a complex interaction with the potential for aggressive behaviour 
Kathleen T. Quach and Sreekanth H. Chalasani 
21. Plasticity of pheromone-mediated avoidance behavior in C. elegans 
YongJin Cheon, Hyeonjeong Hwang, and Kyuhyung Kim 
Part 5: Quiescence and sleep 
22. Worms sleep: a perspective 
David Raizen 
23. Cellular damage, including wounding, drives C. elegans stress-induced sleep 
Desiree L. Goetting, Richard Mansfield, Rony Soto, and Cheryl Van Buskirk 
24. Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans 
Madison Honer, Kristen Buscemi, Natalie Barrett, Niknaz Riazati, Gerald Orlando, and Matthew D. Nelson 
25. Discriminating between sleep and exercise-induced fatigue using computer vision and behavioral genetics 
Kelsey N. Schuch, Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan, Yuliang Guo, Saba N. Baskoylu, Sarah Kim, Benjamin Kimia, Thomas Serre, and Anne C. Hart 
26. The OptoGenBox – a device for long-term optogenetics in C. elegans 
Inka Busack, Florian Jordan, Peleg Sapir, and Henrik Bringmann 
Part 6: Survival, aging and disease 
27. Neuromodulators: an essential part of survival 
Joy Alcedo and Veena Prahlad 
28. Neuroendocrine control of lipid metabolism: lessons from C. elegans 
Supriya Srinivasan 
29. The discovery and consequences of the central role of the nervous system in the control of protein homeostasis 
Veena Prahlad 
30. Host-microbe interactions and the behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans 
Dennis H. Kim and Steven W. Flavell 
31. Neurogenetics of nictation, a dispersal strategy in nematodes 
Heeseung Yang, Bo Yun Lee, Hyunsoo Yim, and Junho Lee 
32. Regulatory systems that mediate the effects of temperature on the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans 
Byounghun Kim, Jongsun Lee, Younghun Kim, and Seung-Jae V. Lee 
33. The contribution of C. elegans neurogenetics to understanding neurodegenerative diseases 
Joseph J. H. Liang, Issa A. McKinnon, and Catharine H. Rankin 
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 
Eleni Gourgou, Alexandra R. Willis, Sebastian Giunti, Maria J. De Rosa, Amanda G. Charlesworth, Mirella Hernandez Lima, Elizabeth Glater, Sonja Soo, Bianca Pereira, Kübra Akbas, Anushka Deb, Madhushree Kamak, Mark W. Moyle, Annika Traa, Aakanksha Singhvi, Surojit Sural, and Eugene Jennifer Jin 

Biography

Chun-Fang Wu is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurogenetics. He has conducted neurobiological research in Drosophila, applying genetic, cell biological, physiological, and behavioural techniques in the studies.

Joy Alcedo is Guest Editor for the C. elegans special issue of the Journal of Neurogenetics. Her research focuses on the sensory and neuromodulatory influences on C. elegans development and survival programs.