The long winter of 2013-2014 is over and it’s time for a couple of days of Spring before Summer arrives in a few weeks! In this issue of the ADDL Diagnostic Forum, we welcome Dr. Grant Burcham to the Heeke Lab at SIPAC and Congratulate Drs. Durkes, Charney, Beck, and Broman on their awards. Check out the photos from the cover of Viral Immunology that are part of Dr. Pogranichniy, Dr. Lenz, and colleague’s article on, “DNA-vaccine platform development against H1N1 subtype of swine influenza A viruses.”

Parasitology services are now available at the ADDL. In the fall, the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in the Department of Comparative Anatomy moved to the ADDL under the direction of our Head of Microbiology, Dr. Hammac. Many thanks to Dr. Joe Camp, for helping set up the lab, train the staff in parasitology techniques, and continue helping with parasite identifications, and to Elaine Baird, Manny Benitez and Leonie Leduc for learning and performing the parasitology tests.

Updates from the Bacteriology Lab provide the latest on urine and feces, while the Toxicology Lab warns us to be on the lookout for strychnine poisoning.