Steve Kain (email: SteveK at clontech.com) and I are editing a book on
GFP and we would like to get as much involvement from the scientific community
as possible. Below I have given an outline of the book and indicated the
authors for each of the chapters. If you would like to contribute information
(e.g., manuscripts in press, unpublished results, pretty pictures, suggestions
of topics that you would like to see covered, names of people whose work we
should know about), please contact Steve. me or any of the authors. I am
particularly interested in hearing about experiences in organisms not covered
by the chapters below. We are on a rather tight schedule (we'd like to have a
draft by the time of the Cell Biology Meeting in December), so please email us
soon with your suggestions and comments. Unfortunately, we cannot answer
questions about how to use gfp, but we would like include your observations.
Thanks for your help.
Marty Chalfie
chalfie at cubsps.bio.columbia.edu
Table of Contents
Preface: General Introduction
Martin Chalfie and Steve Kain
Section 1: Background
Chapter 1: The Discovery of GFP
Osamu Shimomura (email: shimomur at mbl.edu)
Chapter 2: Introduction to Bioluminescence and Biofluorescence
Woody Hastings (email: woody at hastingslab.harvard.edu)
Section 2: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of GFP
Chapter 3: Biochemical and Physical Properties of GFP
Bill Ward (email: meton at rci.rutgers.edu)
Chapter 4: Structure of GFP
George Phillips (email: georgep at rice.edu)
Chapter 5: Molecular Biology and Modification of GFP
Douglas Prasher (email: dprasher at capecod.com) and Roger Tsien (email:
rtsien at ucsd.edu)
Section 3: Applications of GFP
Chapter 6: Overview
Martin Chalfie and Steve Kain
Chapter 7: The Uses of GFP in Prokayotes
Raphel Valdivia (email: valdivia at cmgm.stanford.edu), Brendan Cormack,
and Stanley Falkow
Chapter 8: The Uses of GFP in Yeast
Pam Silver (email: pamela_silver at macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu)
Chapter 9: The Uses of GFP in C. elegans
Andy Fire (email: fire at mail1.ciwemb.edu)
Chapter 10: The Uses of GFP in Drosophila
Tulle Hazelrigg (email: tih1 at columbia.edu)
Chapter 11: The Uses of GFP in Plants
Jim Haseloff (email: jh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Chapter 12: The Uses of GFP in Transgenic Vertebrates
Nancy Hopkins (email: NHOPKINS at MIT.EDU)
Chapter 13: The Uses of GFP in Mammalian Cells
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (email: jlippin at helix.nih.gov)
Chapter 14: Future Prospects
Martin Chalfie and Steve Kain
Section 4: Appendix: Methods and Protocols of the Use of GFP (Protocols,
Equipment, Common Problems)
Sharyn Endow (email: endow at galactose.mc.duke.edu) and David
Piston (email: dave.piston at mcmail.vanderbilt.edu)
