TY - JOUR T1 - A scalable method for automatically measuring pharyngeal pumping in <em>C. elegans</em> JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/051243 SP - 051243 AU - Monika Scholz AU - Dylan J. Lynch AU - Kyung Suk Lee AU - Erel Levine AU - David Biron Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/02/051243.abstract N2 - We describe a scalable automated method for measuring the pharyngeal pumping of Caenorhabditis elegans in controlled environments. Our approach enables unbiased measurements for prolonged periods, a high throughput, and measurements in controlled yet dynamically changing feeding environments. The automated analysis compares well with scoring pumping by visual inspection, a common practice in the field. In addition, we observed overall low rates of pharyngeal pumping and long correlation times when food availability was oscillated. ER -