Lieutenant Tyler M. Sharp, Ph.D., is an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dengue Branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  A native of Bowling Green, Ohio, he attended secondary school in the Chicago area and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.  He received additional training at Montana State University – Bozeman and the Medical Research Council Division of Virology in Glasgow, Scotland.  He completed his doctorate in Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College in Medicine in Houston, Texas, in the laboratory of Dr. Mary K. Estes where he studied the molecular mechanisms of norovirus pathogenesis.  During his graduate study, he received additional training at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, Japan.  His current public health and research interests are the epidemiology and pathophysiology of emerging infectious diseases.  He enjoys international travel, hiking and camping, scuba diving, and avoiding infection with the pathogens he studies (thus far with limited success).