Meet the Volume Editors

Doctor Saeed El-Ashram is a professor at Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and Foshan University, China, and a research professor at Zhaoqing Dahuanong Biology Medicine Co., Ltd., China. His primary research focus 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, such as toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis, alveolar echinococcosis, and

fascioliasis, cause significant diseases in humans, while others, including cryptosporidiosis and coccidiosis, represent a substantial financial burden for food producers. Dr. El-Ashram has more than 120 journal publications to his credit, holds several registered patents, and is an academic editor and reviewer.

Doctor Luís Manuel Madeira de Carvalho is a Full Professor of Parasitology, Parasitic and Wildlife Diseases at the Integrated Master of Veterinary Medicine (MIMV), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His main areas of interest in teaching and research focus on helminths of domestic animals, exotic pets, and wildlife, namely concerning gastrointestinal and vector-borne parasites as zoonotic agents, interconnected with

ecosystem health and conservation medicine. He has more than 200 scientific publications to his credit and has coordinated and/or collaborated in more than 30 research projects concerning parasitology of domestic animals and wildlife. He has supervised around 180 graduate works, including intern and undergraduate reports, master's dissertations, Ph.D. theses, and training at the Parasitology and Parasitological Diseases Laboratory. He is also a reviewer of several international journals.

Guillermo Tellez-Isaias received his MS and DVM in Veterinary Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, USA. He worked as a professor at UNAM for 16 years, 8 as head of the Avian Medicine Department, College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Tellez-Isaias was president of the National Poultry Science Association of Mexico, and a member of the Mexican Veterinary Academy and

the Mexican National Research System. Currently, he is a research professor at the Center of Excellence in Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, USA. His research is focused on poultry gastrointestinal models to evaluate the beneficial effects of functional foods to enhance intestinal health and disease resistance.

Abdulaziz Alouffi is an associate research professor at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia. He obtained a DVM from Qassim University, Saudi Arabia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, UK, with a thesis focused on understanding the roles 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. Currently, Dr. Alouffi is working on zoonoses, using different diagnostic methods, such as a metagenomics approach, to identify zoonotic diseases. In addition, he is using technology to find new targets for the development of more efficient vaccines against zoonotic disease.

Doctor Ebtsam Al-Olayan is a Professor of Parasitology at the Department College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. She is also a supervisor of Chair Vaccines Research of Infectious Diseases, at King Saud University. Dr. Al-olayan has been involved in research of parasitic diseases and vaccines. She has received several awards and is an academic reviewer for many journals. She has registered several patents and has more than eighty-eight publica-

tions to her credit.
