in putting togetherthissetofmethods,aswellasallthemembersofmylaboratoryforproofreading and correcting the chapters and especially Sarah McClelland who read all the chapters atleasttwiceatvariousstages. Finally,IwishtothankLyndyRasmusenforherhelpin administeringtheprojectandkeepingmeorganized. Andrew D. McAinsh v Contents Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 1 Knock-inandKnock-out:TheUseofReverseGeneticsinSomatic CellstoDissectMitoticPathways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 AlexisR. Barr, DeborahZyssandFanniGergely 2 FunctionalDissectionofMitoticRegulatorsThroughGene TargetinginHumanSomaticCells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 EliBerdougo, Marie-EmilieTerretandPrasadV. Jallepalli 3 RNAiinDrosophilaS2CellsasaToolforStudyingCell CycleProgression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Monica ¿ Bettencourt-DiasandGohtaGoshima 4 ProductionofMitoticRegulatorsUsinganAutoselectionSystem forProteinExpressioninBuddingYeast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 MarcoGeymonat, AdonisSpanosandStevenSedgwick 5 HydrodynamicAnalysisofHumanKinetochoreComplexes DuringMitosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 SarahE. McClellandandAndrewD. McAinsh 6 IsolationofProteinComplexesInvolvedinMitosisandCytokinesis fromDrosophilaCulturedCells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 PierPaoloD¿Avino,VincentArchambault,MarcinR. Przewloka, WeiZhang,ErnestD. LaueandDavidM. Glover 7 AutomatedLiveMicroscopytoStudyMitoticGeneFunctionin FluorescentReporterCellLines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 MichaelH. A. SchmitzandDanielW. Gerlich 8 ElectronTomographyofMicrotubuleEnd-Morphologies inC. elegansEmbryos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 EileenO¿TooleandThomasMuller-Reicher ¿ t 9 DissectingMi