Want to find microsporidia that infect nematodes?

Step 1:

Locate the most rotting, disgusting fruit you can find.

Step 2:

Convincing your lab to go apple picking, but conveniently forget to tell them that they will be picking apples off of the ground.

Step 3:

Put the rotting fruit on plates and wait for worms to crawl out.

Step 4:

Screen for microsporidia spores inside of the nematodes using the chitin-binding dye direct yellow 96.

Thanks to everyone in the lab who helped gather samples last fall and rotation students Bryanna Meikle for help collecting and Mashiat Khan for screening through the samples!