ALT The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit is responsible for managing the National Sand Fly collection housed within the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. In this video David Pecor, a museum specialist at the WRBU, demonstrates how to permanently preserve sand flies for the museum.

ALT Figure 3: Map indicating the tick sampling locations in the study. Sites with detectable human pathogens are marked by a triangle. (Legend: triangle for virus detection, red dot for collection sites, Blugaria in purple, Georgia in yellow, and Ukraine in blue.)

ALT Signs in English and Spanish promoting "Expert is in" for Laura Caicedo-Quiroga's visit to the Outbreak Exhibit at NMNH.

ALT WRBU Molecular Technician Laura Caicedo talks with a group of visitors of the Outbreak Exhibit about the mosquitoes and West Nile Virus

ALT Two researchers wearing lab coats work on a laboratory and handle samples in small tubes

ALT Two researchers discuss laboratory procedures by a lab bench

ALT One researcher wearing a lab coat uses a micro-pipette to transfer a sample to a new tube

ALT One researcher wearing a lab coat stands next to a white board with steps from a procedure for cDNA purification