Meet the editors

Dr. Saeed El-Ashram is a professor at Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt and at Foshan University, China, and a research professor at Zhaoqing Dahuanong Biology Medicine Co., Ltd., China. The primary focus of his research is to understand how the animal immune system recognizes and responds to parasitic infections with and/or without a microbial community. Some of these infections cause significant diseases in humans, such as

toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis, alveolar echinococcosis, and fascioliasis, while others, including cryptosporidiosis and coccidiosis, represent a substantial financial burden for food producers. Dr. El-Ashram has over 120 SCI publications, holds several registered patents, and is an academic editor and reviewer.

Dr. Abdulaziz Alouffi is an associate research professor at KACST in Saudi Arabia. His Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham focused on understanding the role of Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in human resistance to infection with metazoan parasites (e.g., *Schistosoma spp*.,) and how this knowledge can be exploited for vaccination purposes. He is currently working on diagnostic methods to identify zoonotic diseases and interven-

tions to mitigate or eradicate them. He is also working with scientists from different countries to broaden the understanding of zoonotic pathogen epidemiology, and how this can be used to inform policy on optimal and cost-effective methods of disease control, and to find new targets for the development of more efficient vaccines against the zoonotic disease.

Dr. Guillermo Tellez-Isaias is a research professor at the Center of Excellence in Poultry Science of the University of Arkansas, USA. He received his DVM and MS degrees in veterinary sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. He was a professor at UNAM for 16 years, including eight as head of the Avian Medicine Department at the College of Veterinary Medi-

cine. His research focuses on gastrointestinal models in poultry to evaluate the beneficial effects of functional foods on intestinal health and disease resistance. He is a member of the Mexican Veterinary Academy and the Mexican National Research System, and a past president of the National Poultry Science Association of Mexico.

Dr. Firas Alali gained his master's degree from the Department of Veterinary Parasitology at Baghdad University, Iraq, and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Selcuk University, Turkey. He has worked in the Department of Veterinary Parasitology at Kerbala University, Iraq, for 10 years, including a year as a vice dean at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He researches in the fields of parasitology, entomology and vec-

tor-borne diseases, including zoonoses, with a focus on protozoology, ectoparasites, and the effect of zoonoses on different hosts. He has been a member of the Iraqi Veterinary Syndicate since 2004.
