IntechOpen Book Series Veterinary Medicine and Science Volume 2

Catrin Rutland is an Associate Professor of Anatomy and Developmental Genetics at the University of Nottingham, UK. Catrin completed her Degree, Masters then PhD (University of Derby, Technische Universität München, and University of Nottingham), and undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship at the School of Medicine before accepting a tenure in Veterinary Medicine and Science. She also achieved her MMedSci (Medical

Education) and PGCHE. Catrin is the author of over 100 research papers/books/ abstracts. She is a board member of the European Association of Veterinary Anatomists, Fellow of the Anatomical Society and Galton Institute, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and member of the British Society for Developmental Biology, Society for Reproduction and Fertility, and Society of Cancer Epigenetics. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2009-4898. Website https://www.nottingham. ac.uk/vet/people/catrin.rutland

**Editor of Volume 2: Catrin Rutland** University of Nottingham, UK

Valentina Kubale is Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since graduating from the Veterinary faculty, she obtained her PhD in 2007, and collaborated with the Department of Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen with a Lundbeck Foundation fellowship. She is the editor of two books and author/

coauthor of 21 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 13 book chapters, and 54 communications at scientific congresses. Since 2008 she has been the Editor Assistant for the Slovenian Veterinary Research journal. She is a member of the Slovenian Biochemical Society, the Endocrine Society, the European Association of Veterinary Anatomists, and the Society for Laboratory Animals, where she is a board member.
