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1. Howard Glasgow is offered an assistant's position in Burkholder's Laboratory; his wife Aileen is overjoyed thinking this is a great opportunity for him.

2. Aileen hosts a backyard barbecue to celebrate regarding this event as the start of Glasgow's scientific career.

3. After working with the Dinoflagellate Glasgow has become increasingly irritated and began to scream; red lesions appeared on Glasgow after they returned from France and he began to be increasingly disoriented

4. Howard begins to experience "blowups," weird moments where he would yell. Aileen begins to implicated the dinoflagellate as the cause of these strange occurrences.

5. Howard begins to experience brain degeneration and undergoes an MRI; on the way home he became lost, disoriented, and confused.

6. Howard was told to not go back to work or to drive; doctors suspected a major neurological injury.

7. Howard appears to relax but then experiences a series of outbursts.

8. Dr. Schmechel determines that there was brain damage and it was probably caused by the Dinoflagellate.

9. Howard is unable to leave home and has to be taken care of my his wife and daughter putting a financial strain on the family.

10. Glasgow is able to return to work but he is unable to work with the toxic stages of the Dinoflagellate as he is "hypersensitized" or overly sensitive to its toxins.

11. Dr. Burkholder accommodates Glasgow's return and sees him as a friend, worried for his health.

12. Glasgow's inquisitiveness leads to experiments that opened up productive and new territory for inquiry.

13. Glasgow shows that Pfiesteria had a history on attacking predators up the food web and becomes worried that the dinoflagellate will show up inside his blood.