Dr. Natasha Gaudreault, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University, working for the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (www.ceezad.org) and the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (www.k-state.edu/cezid/). Her areas of expertise and interest are transboundary, emerging, and zoonotic viral disease research with pathogens including Rift Valley fever virus, African and classical swine fever viruses, SARS-CoV-2, mpox, and highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.