Ladies and gentlemen, fellow members of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP), friends, and honored guests, welcome to the ASP Presidential Address. It is my honor to introduce our Society's president, Dr. David Bruce Conn.
I must say that I am meeting Bruce more frequently outside the United States than inside, while attending various European and international congresses, conferences, meetings, and workshops. And, we always have a good time, spent mostly on catching up on developments in our lives and career paths and also reviewing our future travel calendar so we know when we are going to meet next time and if we are going to be there with our wives. So, when I met Bruce at the Xth European Multicolloquium of Parasitology in Paris in August 2008, where we co-chaired the symposium on Sentinel Organisms and Molecular Markers, I thought that we would have our routine chat. However, he...