We present a method for the flexible chemical and multimodal stimulation and recording of simultaneous neural activity from many Caenorhabditis elegans worms. This method uses microfluidics, open-source hardware and software, and supervised automated data analysis to enable the measurement of neuronal phenomena such as adaptation, temporal inhibition, and stimulus crosstalk.
White, H., Kamara, V., Gorski, V., Busby, M., Albrecht, D. R. Automated Multimodal Stimulation and Simultaneous Neuronal Recording from Multiple Small Organisms. J. Vis. Exp. (193), e65042, doi:10.3791/65042 (2023).