PART I IMAGING MORPHOGENESIS
Chapter 1. Probing Regional Mechanical Properties of Embryonic Tissue Using Microindentation and Optical Coherence Tomography
Benjamin A. Filas, Gang Xu, and Larry A. Taber
Chapter 2. Hemodynamic Flow Visualization of Early Embryonic Great Vessels using mPIV
Selda Goktas, Chia-Yuan Chen, William J. Kowalski, and Kerem Pekkan
Chapter 3. Using Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy to Study Zebrafish Vascular Morphogenesis
Jacky G. Goetz, Fabien Monduc, Yannick Schwab, and Julien Vermot
Chapter 4. Micro/Nano-Computed Tomography Technology for Quantitative Dynamic, Multi-scale Imaging of Morphogenesis
Chelsea L. Gregg, Andrew K. Recknagel, and Jonathan T. Butcher
Chapter 5. Imaging the Dorsal-Ventral Axis of Live and Fixed Drosophila Melanogaster Embryos
Sophia N. Carrell and Gregory T. Reeves
Chapter 6. Light-Sheet-Based Imaging and Analysis of Early Embryogenesis in the Fruit Fly
Khaled Khairy, William Lemon, Fernando Amat, and Philipp J. Keller
Chapter 7. Quantitative Image Analysis of Cell Behavior and Molecular Dynamics During Tissue Morphogenesis
Chun Yin Bosco Leung and Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez
Chapter 8. A Multiplex Fluorescent in situ Hybridization Protocol for Clonal Analysis of Drosophila Oogenesis
Lily S. Cheung and Stanislav Shvartsman
Chapter 9. Active Cell and ECM Movements During Development
Anastasiia Aleksandrova, Brenda J. Rongish, Charles D. Little, and Andras Czirok
PART II CULTURE MODELS OF MORPHOGENESIS
Chapter 10. 3D Culture Assays of Murine Mammary Branching Morphogenesis and Epithelial Invasion
Kim-Vy Nguyen-Ngoc, Eliah R. Shamir, Robert J. Huebner, Jennifer N. Beck, Kevin J. Cheung, and Andrew J. Ewald
Chapter 11. Culture of Mouse Embryonic Foregut Explants
Felicia Chen and Wellington V. Cardoso
Chapter 12. Investigating Human Vascular Tube Morphogenesis and maturation using endothelial cell-pericyte co-cultures and a doxycycline-inducible genetic system in 3D extracellular matrices
Stephanie L.K. Bowers, Chun-Xia Meng, Matthew T. Davis, and George E. Davis
Chapter 13. Three-Dimensional Traction Force Microscopy of Engineered Epithelial Tissues
Alexandra S. Piotrowski, Victor D. Varner, Nikolce Gjorevski, and Celeste M. Nelson
PART III MANIPULATING CELLS AND TISSUES IN VIVO
Chapter 14. Probing Cell Mechanics with Sub-Cellular Laser Dissection of Actomyosin Networks in the Early Developing Drosophila Embryo
M. Rauzi and P.-F. Lenne
Chapter 15. UV Laser Ablation to Measure Cell and Tissue-Generated Forces in the Zebrafish Embryo in vivo and ex vivo
Michael Smutny, Martin Behrndt, Pedro Campinho, Verena Ruprecht, and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Chapter 16. Measurement of Intercellular Cohesion by Tissue Surface Tension
Ramsey A. Foty
Chapter 17. Quail-Chick Chimeras and Eye Development
Sinu Jasrapuria Agrawal and Peter Y. Lwigale
PART IV EMERGING MODELS OF TISSUE MORPHOGENESIS
Chapter 18. Studying Epithelial Morphogenesis in Dictyostelium
Daniel J. Dickinson, W. James Nelson, and William I. Weis
Chapter 19. Primary Cell Cultures of Regenerating Holothurian Tissues
Samir A. Bello, Ricardo J. Abreu-Irizarry, and Jose E. Garcia-Arraras
PART V COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF TISSUE MORPHOGENESIS
Chapter 20. Large-Scale Parameter Studies of Cell-Based Models of Tissue Morphogenesis Using CompuCell3D or VirtualLeaf
Margriet M. Palm and Roeland M. H. Merks
Chapter 21. Simulating Tissue Morphogenesis and Signaling
Dagmar Iber, Simon Tanaka, Patrick Fried, Philipp Germann, and Denis Menshykau
Chapter 22. Elasticity-Based Targeted Growth Models of Morphogenesis
Patrick W. Alford
