Daniel G. Colley earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University in 1968. Upon completing his postdoctoral work at Yale, Colley became an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Vanderbilt University in 1970. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Microbiology in 1974 as well as becoming a faculty member in the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt in 1972. He has conducted much research at Vanderbilt and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville, focusing primarily upon the tropical parasitic infection called Schistosomiasis. Daniel G. Colley is currently Director, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Professor of Microbiology, The University of Georgia.