(CIT): Dr. Lindler is Director of Public Health Laboratory Services at the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. He received his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1986, did a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Dr. Susan Straley focusing on plague pathogenesis, then took a position at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where he continued his research on pathogenesis, genotyping and plague vaccine development for the Army's biodefense program. He is the author of numerous review articles on Y pestis and is the senior editor of the recent book Biological Weapons Defense, Infectious Diseases and Counterbioterrorism.