Lisa Durso is a Research Microbiologist working with the Agricultural Research Service in Lincoln, Nebraska. She began her career working on rabies, arbovirus, and vector-borne diseases at state public health laboratories and served as an Emerging Infectious Disease Training Fellow in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease branch of the CDC. After receiving her Ph.D. in food safety microbiology, she worked in the Animal Health unit of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, where she applied microbial community tools to pre-harvest control of Shiga-toxigenic E. coli in beef cattle. She currently works at the ARS in Lincoln, NE, in the Natural Resources National Program Area. Her research focuses on finding ways to use manure to improve soil and crop health, while minimizing adverse environmental impacts such as zoonotic pathogens and antibiotic resistance. She has been invited to share her work on the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance with the Federal Task Force on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) and The National Academy of Sciences. Currently she is working as part of a multi-agency pilot project developing and environmental surveillance component for the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System.