Happy 4th of July!

No fireworks for me this year, but a few of us are getting together for burgers, drinks and pool tonight.  Maybe we'll find some place to play darts if we're lucky.  It'll mostly be Americans but a few international folks in my lab will join us as well.

My infection procedure is making some progress!  I had some luck getting the parasites to penetrate the fish if I anesthetize the fish first.  I'd still like better infection success...3 out of 50 successfully infected a fish and 10 out of 50 infected another and I'd like an average of 10 parasites to infected each fish.  Next I'm going to try dropping the parasites in a small drop of water right onto the anesthetized fish and see what happens.  Wish me luck!