Teaching Tools Using Dictyostelium discoideum

Dictyostelium discoideum is a great organism to use to teach cellular biology. It exhibits very interesting behaviors, such as chemotaxis and phagocytosis, that can readily be studied in standard laboratories without the need for expensive equipment.

The following are lists of labs being used in real courses settings and provide all necessary information for performing those experiments.

Observing the Dictyostelium life cycle : Dicty_life_cycle.doc (provided by Derrick Brazill)

Staining the actin cytoskeleton of Dictyostelium: Actin_lab.doc (provided by Derrick Brazill)

Measuring endocytosis and exocytosis in Dictyostelium: Endo-exo_lab.doc (provided by Derrick Brazill)

Practical on chemotaxis, by Dr. Thierry Soldati, University of Geneva

These are pdf files.

Chemotaxis Protocol (Jeff Hadwiger) Open - Download
Under agar assay (David Knecht) Open - Download - Chemotaxis Under Agar from Dave Knecht
ChemoLab (Margaret Nelson) Open - Download
Chemotaxis Preparation (Thierry Soldati) Open - Download
Chemotaxis Protocol (Thierry Soldati) Open - Download
Chemotaxis Answers (Thierry Soldati) Open - Download

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