Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Parasites

I found a new blog featuring a parasite of the day and I couldn't be more excited to share it with folk! My favorite parasite is featured on Jan 8th, Giardia lamblia. I devoted my entire graduate career (and a portion of my foot for the tattoo) to this little guy. Its awesome and has been on this planet long before people. Check it:



I'll be excited to see if they feature Trypanosoma cruzi or Trypanosoma rangeli both of which we've started working with in the lab. Below is an awesome pic of a trypanasome we isolated from a local pack rat:



Dude, science is so freaking awesome!

1 comment:

Michelle said...

I'm totally digging the Giardia picture. It totally has a smirk, a creepy 'stache, long (creepy) hair, and one dangly earring.