Barbara S. Drolet is a Research Microbiologist with the Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit at the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, Manhattan, KS, and an Adjunct Professor in two departments at Kansas State University. Her research includes developing arboviral immunodiagnostics, investigating the molecular interactions between arboviruses and their mammalian and/or insect hosts, and determining the effects of insect vector saliva on mammalian immune responses and arboviral pathogenesis. Arboviruses of interest include bluetongue, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, and vesicular stomatitis virus.