I am a Senior Scientist, Principal Investigator in Bacterial Diseases Branch, at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. My long-term academic interests include biothreat infections, ESKAPEE pathogens, diarrheal diseases, microbial diversity, multidrug resistance, phage biology, genomics, phage resistance, antiphage systems, phage therapy, animal models, compassionate treatment, and phage-based diagnostics.