Our Shiner Parasite Poster From ASIH In St. Louis

Here's our poster on Dactylogyrus gill parasite load in scarlet and striped shiners that we presented at the ASIH meeting in St. Louis last July. I've converted it from a PowerPoint slide to a .jpg, and it's huge if you click on it. Christian and Kris assembled it, and it came out well. I hope it's intelligible being posted here...

I've been knocked down and out much of the last 10 days by the cold going around. I spent the day in bed on Sunday, something I rarely do. It's mostly passed, luckily, as school has started this week and I have an 8 o'clock lecture class on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I've been working with various students to get various projects in gear again, after the break and after the move. In truth I'm still moving stuff from our old building. This weekend I hope to move my live fish for once and all, including 2 20-gal. tanks, one 10-gal. and one 2.5-gal. And next Friday, weather permitting, we hope to go out to Limestone Creek and collect a large number of YOY scarlet shiners for various purposes. The 10-day forecast is for a day that's maybe 50 deg. F, we'll see how tough everyone feels. It would be a midday trip, at least. And sometime in the next 4-5 weeks I hope to stage our first trip after stippled studfish in Randolph County, AL.