Dan Broder is a scientist and team leader for New Product Development in the R&D Division of the IDEXX Water line of business, where he led the multi-year research and development effort for Legiolert, a culture method for the detection and quantification of Legionella pneumophila. Dan recently presented at the Legionella 2017 conference in Rome, the 2017 AWT Annual Convention and the 2017 UNC Water Microbiology /International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology. He earned his PhD in microbiology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.