Editorial Board
Senior Editor
Hayley Henderson, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Assistant Editors
Atharva Gajalkar, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Aishwarya Rao, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Siddharth Sharma, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Manuscript Editors
Harshal Dhondge, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Vaishnavi Nimbalkar, MSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, MTech, BTech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Senior Editorial Board Members
Wolfgang Baeumer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Wolfgang Bäumer, Dipl. ECVPT is currently associate professor of Pharmacology at the College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University. He will become professor at the Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Free University in Berlin in July 2017. Dr. Bäumer received his doctoral degree from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany in 1999 and his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Dr.med.vet.habil.) for Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2007. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology since 2012 and joined BMC Veterinary Research as Section Editor in 2013. Dr. Bäumer’s research focus is in the field of immune-pharmacology. Currently, pharmacological targets like the histamine H4 receptor, JAK-STAT-inhibitors and the chemokine thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) are studied with emphasis on treating allergic skin diseases.
Jose Ceron, PhD, University of Murcia, Spain
Jose Ceron is Professor of the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery at Murcia University. He is diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology and was president of the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology. He authored more than 190 articles and has been section editor of BMC Veterinary Research since 2011.
His main current research interests are the development and clinical application of new biomarkers for evaluation of animal health and welfare in different veterinary species, especially those related with the immune and stress response. He has a wide collaborative network with other veterinary research groups around the world and in addition he is involved in projects related to the “One-health” idea in collaboration with the human side.
Peter Leegwater, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Dr. Peter Leegwater is assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University. He defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Utrecht University in 1989. After several postdoc positions in the field of molecular biology he switched to molecular genetics in 1997 at the Department of Child Neurology of the Free University of Amsterdam. With the team of Professor Marjo van der Knaap he was able to identify 6 genes that cause severely disabling diseases in children.
Dr. Leegwater obtained his current position in 2002 and at present his research focuses on the background of inherited neuromuscular diseases in dogs. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Veterinary Reseach as Section Editor in 2011.
Louis Penning, PhD, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Louis C. Penning is an Associate Professor of Veterinary Regenerative Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University (UU), the Netherlands. He is an expert member of the Dutch Society for Cell Biology and member of several other scientific societies. His recognition as experimental pathobiologist exemplifies his keen interest and devotion to bridge pipets-2-pets, the veterinary orthologue of bench-to-bedside. He was awarded his PhD in 1993 and subsequently completed post-doctoral positions in molecular oncology, molecular endocrinology and molecular cardiology, shifting from human to veterinary medicine in 2002. His current research focuses on molecular and cell biology in internal medicine and stem cell biology and their application in neurosurgery.
Lysa Posner, DVM, NC State Veterinary Hospital, USA
Lysa Pam Posner, DVM, DACVAA is a Professor of Anesthesiology at North Carolina State University. She completed her DVM and Anesthesiology Residency training at Cornell University, and is certified as a Specialist in Anesthesiology by the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia. She is the Director of Anesthesia Services at the NC State Veterinary Hospital and the Assistant Department Head for the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests include anesthesia and analgesia in aquatic species. She has served as an Associate Editor for BMC Veterinary Research, before becoming a Section Editor.
Rick Sanchez, BSciBiol, DVM, DipECVO, CertVetEd /FHEA, Specialistische Dierenkliniek Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr. Rick F Sanchez obtained his education in the US and UK with a BSciBiol in 1994 (STAC, New York), a DVM in 1999 after attending Ross and Louisiana State Universities. He obtained his EU veterinary qualification in 2001, his DipECVO in 2007 and became Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (for Veterinary Teaching) in 2014. He commenced his veterinary specialty training in the US in 1999 and completed his residency training in ophthalmology through the University of Glasgow and Eye Veterinary Clinic in the UK. He continued his work in private practice in the UK until late 2011 when he launched the Ophthalmology Service at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London, where he also established an ECVO Ophthalmology Residency program. In 2017, he returned to private practice in (Specialistische Dierenkliniek Utrecht - SDU). Dr Sanchez is a frequently invited speaker at international courses and conferences and takes pride in the development of educational curricula for ophthalmology courses aimed at general practitioners and specialists in training around the world. Dr Sanchez is an Editorial Board Member of the Veterinary Ophthalmology journal since 2010, and the Ophthalmology Section Editor of BMC Veterinary Research since 2018. Dr Sanchez has active research interest in the cornea, corneal surgery, and cataract surgery.
Indranil Samanta, PhD, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences,India
Michael Tildesley, University of Warwick, USA
Michael Tildesley is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Institute and the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. Dr Tildesley received his doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge in 2003 in astrophysical fluid dynamics, but changed disciplines and he now works as an infectious disease modeller. He worked extensively on foot-and-mouth disease in the aftermath of the UK 2001 outbreak, developing a model to determine optimal strategies for disease control in the event of future outbreaks. More recently, he has worked on model development in situations where precise demographic and disease incidence data are not available, with a focus on diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, bovine Tuberculosis, rabies and lumpy skin disease. Dr Tildesley has strong links with policy makers having previously advised DEFRA, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the OIE and EUFMD upon strategies for disease control. Dr Tildesley joined the Editorial Board as a Section Editor in March 2017.
Holger Volk, PhD, DipECVN, PGCAP, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
Holger Volk is the Head of Department of the Clinical Science and Services at the Royal Veterinary College, Professor of Veterinary Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Past-President of the European College of Veterinary Neurology. He graduated from the Veterinary School of Hanover in 2001, where he also did his PhD in Neuropharmacology studying basic mechanisms of drug-resistant epilepsy. He then completed his specialist clinical education doing an internship and a residency in Neurology and Neurosurgery at the RVC. Holger is internationally known for his work in the field of Chiari-like malformation/syringomyelia and epilepsy. Holger has been chairing the International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force, which published recently seven consensus statements for canine and feline epilepsy and was a co-chair of the recent published ACVIM consensus statement about medical treatment of epilepsy. He has been a recipient of several Jim Bee educator awards, the prestigious Bourgelat Award from BSAVA and the International Canine Health Award from the Kennel Club. He has published multiple books and book chapters, >170 articles, >100 conference abstracts, and is a frequent flyer on the international conference circuit. Holger has been a Section Editor at BMC Veterinary Research since 2014.
Editorial Board Members
Hanan Abd-Elhafeez, PhD, Assiut University, Egypt
Yasmina Abd-Elhakim, Zagazig University, Egypt
Elsayed Abdel-whab, PhD, Dipl.EBVS, MVMSCs, BVSCs, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
Ahmed Abdelbaset-Ismail, PhD, Zagazig University, Egypt
Elshymaa Abdelnaby, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Mohamed Abdelsalam, PhD , Cairo University, Egypt
Amal Aboelmaaty, PhD, National Research Centre, Egypt
Joana Abrantes, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal
Ashraf Abu-Seida, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Zbigniew Adamiak, Vet Clinic Bialystok, Poland
Sheikh Firdous Ahmad, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institution, India
Y Ajith, PhD, MVSc, BVSc, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India
Benedetta Amato, PhD, DVM, University of Surrey, UK
Aruna Ambagala, PhD, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease -Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Alongkorn Amonsin, DVM, PhD, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Jerome Andonissamy, PhD, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, India
Amilcar Arenal, University of Camaguey Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, Cuba
Thiruvenkadan Aranganoor Kannan, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India
Sena Ardicli, PhD, Bursa Uludag University, Türkiye, and Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research, Switzerland
Federico Armando, PhD, University of Parma, Italy
Marwa Attia, PhD , Cairo University, Egypt
Mian Muhammad Awais, PhD, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
Tugay Ayasan, PhD, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Kadirli Academy of Applied Sciences, Türkiye
Mohsin Ayoub Mir, PhD, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, PhD, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mahdi Askari Badouei, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
Agata Bancerz-Kisiel, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Tommaso Banzato, PhD, University of Padua, Italy
Anna Bassols, PhD, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Joy Becker, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Albano Beja-Pereira, PhD, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Luca Bellini, PhD, University of Padova, Italy
Andrea Bertuglia, PhD, DVM, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Javier Bezos, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Irfan Ahmad Bhat, University of Iceland, Iceland
Raja Aadil Hussain Bhat, PhD, ICAR-Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, India
Mallikarjun Bidarimath, PhD, DVM, DABT, National Center for Toxicological Research, USA
Pompei Bolfa, PhD, Ross University, St Kitts
Francesca Bonelli, University of Pisa, Italy
Luca Borrelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Bart Broeckx, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Rikke Buhl, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Brandy Burgess, DVM, MSc, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
Ioana Buzura-Matei, PhD, University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Romania
Simeon Cadmus, PhD, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Martin Cake, PhD, Murdoch University, Australia
Maria Grazia Cappai, PhD, DVM, University of Sassari, Italy
Jorge U. Carmona, PhD, Universidad de Caldas, Colombia
Eduardo Casas, National Animal Disease Center, USA
Fabrizio Ceciliani, PhD, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Burhan Çetinkaya, PhD, Firat University, Türkiye
Christopher Chase, DVM, PhD, South Dakota State University, USA
Alexandre Viera Chaves, PhD, The Ohio State University, USA
Ye Chen, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Erika Chenais, PhD, Swedish Veterinary Agency, Sweden
Alfred Chikweto, PhD, St. Georgege's University, Grenada
Bhudipa Choudhury, PhD, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
Soumen Choudhury, PhD, DUVASU, India
Paolo Emidio Crisi, PhD, University of Teramo, Italy
Anna Cywinska, DVM, PhD, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland
Dinesh Dadarwal, BVSc&AH, PhD, Diplomate ACT, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Fabrrizio De Massis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise, Italy
Muhanguzi Dennis, PhD, Makerere university, College of Veterinary Medicine, Uganda
Luisa De Risio, PhD, DipECVN, Animal Health Trust, UK
Felipe de Vicente, University of Liverpool, UK
Sankarganesh Devaraj, PhD, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, India
Mathias Devreese, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Sohini Dey, MVSc, PhD, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
Alessandro Di Cerbo, PhD, University of Camerino, Italy
Nicola Di Girolamo, Centro Veterinario Specialistico, Italy
Barbara Di Martino, University of the Studies of Teramo, Italy
Simona Di Pietro, University of Messina, Italy
Kiril M. Dimitrov, PhD, DVM, Texas A&M University, USA
Ludovico Dipineto, DVM, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Ivona Djurkin Kušec, PhD , Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Elaine Dorneles, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil
Arkadiusz Dors, PhD, National Veterinary Research Institute, Poland
Cord Drögemüller, Dr. med. vet., University of Bern, Switzerland
Junzheng Du, PhD, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Maria Gabriela Echeverria, DVM, PhD, MSc, University of La Plata, Argentina
Sabry El-Bahr, PhD, Alexandria University, Egypt
Hossam El-Sherbiny, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Fouad Elmayet, PhD, Oklahoma State University, USA
Ibrahim Elsohaby, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Hidayet Metin Erdogan, PhD, Aksaray University, Türkiye
Pedro Esteves, CIBIO/InBIO-UP, Portugal
Helen Everett, PhD, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
Gerardo Fatone, PhD, University Federico II - Naples, Italy
Mario Forzan, University of Pisa, Italy
Shulin Fu, PhD, Wuhan Polytechnic University, China
Livio Galosi, PhD, University of Camerino, Italy
Juan Garrido, University of Córdoba, Spain
Malgorzata Gierynska, PhD, DSc, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SSGW, Poland
Chiara Giudice, PhD, Universita degli Studi di Milano - DIMEVET, Italy
Antonio Giuliano, DVM, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Jacques Godfroid, PhD, DVM, University of Tromso, Norway
Karolina Goździewska-Harłajczuk, PhD , Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Dominique J Griffon, Western University of Health Sciences, USA
Rodrigo Guabiraba, PhD, HDR, Centre INRA Val de Loire, France
Enrico Gugliandolo, PhD, University of Messina, Italy
Orçun Haçarız, PhD, McGill University, Canada
Jaroslava Halper, MD, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
Camila Hamond, NVSL, USDA, USA
Alison J Hanlon, PhD, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sonja Hartnack, Dr. med. vet., University of Zurich, Switzerland
Nesrein Hashem, PhD , Alexandria University, Egypt
Selwyn Headley, PhD, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
Farhid Hemmatzadeh, PhD, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Derald Holtkamp, MS, DVM, Iowa State University, USA
Tarique Hussain, PhD, NIAB affiliated with PIEAS, Pakistan
Hussein Awad Hussein, PhD, Assiut University, Egypt
Claudia Interlandi, PhD, University of Messina, Italy
Paulina Jawor, PhD, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Jonas Johansson Wensman, PhD, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Faez Firdaus Jesse, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Jarosław Kaba, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Sunil Kadri, PhD, Aquaculture Innovation, UK
Halit Kanca, University Of Ankara, Türkiye
Ramanathan Kasimanickam, BVSc, DVSc, DACT, Washington State University, USA
Philip Kass, DVM, PhD, University of California, USA
Sharon Kendall, PhD, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Scott Kenney, PhD, The Ohio State University, USA
Sawang Kesdangsakonwut, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Akin Kirbas, PhD, Yozgat Bozok University, Türkiye
William Kisseberth, Ohio State University, USA
Ad Koets, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Kavitha Kongara, Rowan University, USA
Suresh V Kuchipudi, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Sachin Kumar, PhD, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, India
Niranjan Kumar, PhD, Kamdhenu University, India
Rahul Kumar, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
Arumugam Kumaresan, ICAR - National Dairy Research Institute, India
Elsa Lamy, PhD, University of Évora, Portugal
Han Lei, PhD, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Nicola Lewis, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Qiuchun Li, PhD, Yangzhou University, China
Shengfa Liao, PhD, DVM, Mississippi State University, USA
Albert Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tao Lin, University of Conneticut School of Medicine, USA
Chao-Nan Lin, PhD, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Taiwan
Jayant Lohakare, PhD, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
Juan Loor, PhD, University of Illinois, USA
Hui-jun Lu, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, China
Neil Mabbott, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Janet MacInnes, University of Guelph, Canada
Francesco Macrì,University of Messina., Italy
Oscar Madzingira, PhD, University of Namibia, Namibia
Ricardo Soares Magalhaes, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Mohamed Mahdy, PhD, South Valley University, Egypt
Olfat Mahdy, PhD , Cairo University, Egypt
Paul Mandigers, PhD, DVM, MVM, Dipl. ECVN, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Ricardo Marcos, PhD, VMD, MD, ICBAS, Portugal
Mohamed Marzok, PhD, King Fisal University, Saudi Arabia
Beatriz Martinez-Lopez, PhD, University of California-Davis, California, USA
Silvia Martinez-Subiela, University of Murcia, Spain
Ana Martins-Bessa, UTAD- University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Ana Mateus, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Kaspar Matiasek, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / LMU Munich, Germany
Maria Paola Maurelli, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Lorraine McElhinney, PhD, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
Richard McMullen, Auburn University, USA
Simon Menanteau-Ledouble, Aalborg University, Denmark
Lisa Mestrinho, PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Xiangyang Miao, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Andrei Daniel Mihalca, PhD, DipECZM, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Amy Miller, Newcastle University, UK
Antonio Minervino, Federal University of Western Pará, Brazil
Fouad Mohammad, PhD, University of Mosul, Iraq
Simone Morelli, PhD, University of Teramo, Italy
Marcella Mori, Sciensano, Belgium
Muhammad Munir, PhD, Lancaster University, UK
Ana Muñoz, PhD, DECVSMR, University of Córdoba, Spain
Nadia Musco, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Anthony Mutsaers, University of Guelph, Canada
Jarlath Nally, PhD, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, USA
Shahid Nazir, University of New England, Australia
Gianluca Neglia, PhD, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Charles Nfon, PhD, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canada
Robin A.J. Nicholas, PhD, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, UK
Jowita Samanta Niczyporuk, National Veterinary Research Institute, Poland
Rob Noad, PhD, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Adam Novobilsky, Veterinary Research Institute Brno, Czech Republic
José Ignacio Núñez, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal CReSA-IRTA, Spain
Annette O'Connor, BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, Michigan State University, USA
Ciprian Ober, PhD, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Agricola Odoi, PhD, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Keitaro Ohmori, PhD, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Ioannis Oikonomidis, PhD, IDEXX Laboratories, UK
Ali Doğan Ömür, Dr. med., Atatürk Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Arianne Oria, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Sameer Pant, PhD, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Lysimachos G Papazoglou, PhD, Aristotle Universityof Thessaloniki, Greece
Carlos Iglesias Pastrana, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Josep Pastor, PhD, Dipl ECVCP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Marco Patruno, University of Padova, Italy
Valentín Perez, University of León, Spain
Anna Perazzi, DVM, PhD, University of Padova, Italy
Karen Perry, BVM&S, MSc, Michigan State University, USA
David Piedrafita, PhD, Federation University Australia, Australia
F. William Pierson, DVM, PhD, Dip. ACPV, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Pablo Pinedo, PhD, MV, Colorado State University, USA
Patrícia Poeta, PhD, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Petras Prakas, PhD, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Marko Prokić, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Prpić, Croatian Veterinary Institute, Croatia
Michela Pugliese, University of Messina, Italy
Izhar Hyder Qazi, PhD, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Pakistan
Aijian Qin, Yangzhou University, China
Felisbina Queiroga, PhD, MSc, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
Rodrigo Gutierrez Quintana, MVZ, MVM, DipECVN, University of Glasgow, UK
Carlos Agudelo Ramírez, DVM, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic
Elisa Rampacci, PhD, University of Perugia, Italy
Tanmoy Rana, PhD, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences, India
Sayed Haidar Abbas Raza, South China Agricultural University, China
Robert B. Rebhun, DVM, PhD, University of California Davis, USA
Crawford Revie, PhD, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Wesley Ribeiro, PhD, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Karl Rich, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway
Mohamed Rizk, PhD, Mansoura University, Egypt
Jaydip Rokade, PhD, ICAR-Central Avian Research Institute, India
Katarzyna Ropka-Molik, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), National Research Institute of Animal Production, Poland
Rubén S. Rosales, PhD, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Theera Rukkwamsuk, PhD, MS, DVM, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Silvia Sabattini, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Shebl Salem, PhD, Zagazig University, Egypt
Haney Samir, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Anjas Asmara Samsudin, PhD, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Subir Sarker, PhD, La Trobe University, Australia
Kazumasu Sasaki, PhD, BVSc, Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center, Japan
Tomohiro Sasanami, Shizuoka University, Japan
Abdelfattah Selim, Benha University, Egypt
Torsten Seuberlich, Dr. med. vet., University of Bern, Switzerland
Mohamed Shaalan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mostafa Shalaby, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Tongling Shan, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Xiaofei Shang, PhD, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, CAAS, China
Raafat Shaapan, PhD, National Research Centre, Egypt
Ahmed Sherif, Dr., Animal Health Research Institute, Egypt
Eva María Sierra-Pulpillo, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Maria Siwek, UTP, University of Science and Technology, Poland
Eystein Skjerve, PhD, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Camilla Smoglica, PhD, DVM, University of Teramo, Italy
Yosra Soltan, PhD, Alexandria University, Egypt
Benito Soto-Blanco, PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Fernando Souza, PhD, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
Giuseppe Spinella, University of Bologna, Italy
Sudheesh Sreerangam Nair, Dr., Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St Kitts and Nevis.
Tomasz Stankiewicz, Dr. Sci., West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Valentina Stefanetti, PhD, University of Perugia, Italy
Darko Stefanovski, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, USA
Mark Stevenson, PhD, Massey University, New Zealand
Giuseppe Stradaioli, University Of Udine, Italy
George Strain, PhD, Louisiana State University, USA
Shuo Su, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Vikrant Sudan, PhD, DUVASU, Mathura, India
Marianne Sunde, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway
Gunnaporn Suriyaphol, DVM, Dr. rer. nat., Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Steven Suter, NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, USA
Lakamy Sylla, University of Perugia, Italy
Fang Tang, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Ioannis Tsakmakidis, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mingxing Tian, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Bruno Tilocca, PhD, University Magna Grecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Felix N Toka, DVM, PhD, DSc, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Kitts and Nevis
Vincenzo Tufarelli, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Luca Turini, PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
Romana Turk, PhD, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Indu Upadhyaya, University of Arkansas, USA
Ricardo Ramirez Uscategui, PhD, MD, Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys (UFVJM), Brazil
Bernat Pérez de Val, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Spain
Frank van der Meer, University of Calgary, Canada
Frank van Steenbeek, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Gnanavel Venkatesan, PhD, ICAR - Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
Jose M Vilar, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Stefan Vilcek, Ing., DSc, University of Vewterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia
Luca Villa, DVM, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Balamurugan Vinayagamurthy, PhD, ICAR-NIVEDI, India
Zsofia Viranyi, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria
Cecilia Vullo, PhD, University of Messina, Italy
Gemma Walmsley, PhD, MA, VetMB, DipECVN, FHEA, MRCVS, University of Liverpool, UK
Chong Wang, PhD, Iowa State University, USA
Chunhe Wan, PhD, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Shaohui Wang, PhD, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Cerian Webb, PhD, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
Feng Wen, PhD, Foshan University, China
Kerstin Wernike, Dr. med. vet., Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
Carri Westgarth, PhD, University of Liverpool, UK
Anke Wiethoelter, Dr. med. vet., University of Melbourne, Australia
David Wilkie, MS, DVM, DACVO, The Ohio State University, USA
Andrew Williams, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Henk Wisselink, PhD, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Netherlands
Edward Wright, University of Sussex, UK
Shangzhe Xie, PhD, BSc/BVMS, MVS, Mandai Wildlife Group, Singapore
Danchen (Aaron) Yang, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Huansheng Yang, Hunan Normal University, China
Ling Yang, PhD, Hebei University of Engineering, China
Latif Emrah Yanmaz, PhD, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Türkiye
Jung-Yong Yeh, PhD, DVM, Incheon National University, South Korea
Zeki Yilmaz, PhD, University of Uludag, Türkiye
Shao-Lun Zhai, PhD, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Yauheni Zhalniarovich, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Keyu Zhang, PhD, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Shijun Zheng, PhD, China Agricultural University, China
Yadong Zheng, PhD, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, China
Jie Zhu, PhD, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Editorial Advisers
Michael Azain, University of Georgia, USA
Olaf Berke, University of Guelph, Canada
Patrick Butaye, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevi
Prof. Dr. Patrick Butaye, DVM, PhD is full professor at Ross University, School of Veterinary Medicine and is visiting Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Ghent University. He obtained his PhD in Veterinary Sciences in 2000 at Ghent University after which he obtained a senior researcher at CODA-CERVA in Brussels. In 2015 he joined Ross University, School of Veterinary medicine. Dr. Butaye has been a Section Editor of BMC Veterinary Research since 2012.
His main research interests are the molecular epidemiology of bacteria. This has been applied to the study of antimicrobial resistance and virulence of bacteria, with a special focus on host specificity, further leading to host pathogen interactions. He has been working of many different bacteria amongst Chlamydia, Enterococci, Escherichia coli, Salmonella and Staphylococci. His recent research focus is on alternatives for antimicrobial treatments as bacteriophages.
Patrick Boerlin, University of Guelph, Canada
Sarah Cleaveland, University of Glasgow, UK
Paul M Coussens, Michigan State University, USA
Johannes Charlier, Kraveat, Belgium
Johannes Charlier graduated as a veterinarian from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Ghent University) in 2002. From 2002 to 2015, he worked as a researcher at the Laboratory of Parasitology (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University) and specialized in the diagnosis, epidemiology and economics of helminth infections in ruminants. Since 2007, he is a diplomate member of the European Veterinary Parasitology College. He worked two years as scientific director for Avia-GIS, and in 2017 he started his own consulting activity (Kreavet) with the aim to provide scientific support for sustainable animal health solutions. His research has been published in >70 peer-reviewed articles and has been recognized by several awards including the Peter Nansen Young Scientist Award of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP).
Johannes is chair of the COST Action COMBAR – Combatting Anthelmintic Resistance in ruminants (CA 16230) and project manager of DISCONTOOLS, a European project driven by the different stakeholders of animal health to prioritize animal health research for the development of novel diagnostics, vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
Johannes joined the editorial board of BMC Veterinary Research in 2016, and supports the publication of parasitological research with a practical application for veterinarians, farmers and society as a whole.
Philip Elzer, Louisiana State University, USA
David Freeman, University of Florida, USA
Zhen Fu, University of Georgia, USA
Matthew Parker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Dr Matt Parker is a behavioural biologist with a particular interest in aberrant or abnormal animal behaviour. He studied psychology (BSc, MSc, PhD) at the University of Southampton, completing his PhD in 2008, where he characterised neurocognitive phenotypes associated with stereotypic behaviour in horses. He then moved to the Royal Veterinary College in Hertfordshire, where he worked as a Research Associate studying the behaviour and physiology of animals in intensive farming systems. Following a post-doctoral position in fish behaviour at Queen Mary University of London, he was appointed as lecturer (now senior lecturer) in physiology at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests are primarily focused on gene x environment interactions in the development of neural circuits that underlie psychopathology, and he works on this from both a translational (pre-clinical psychiatry) and applied (abnormal animal behaviour) perspective. He has a particular interest in animal welfare, and individual adaptation to environmental challenges posed by captivity, and resulting neural aberration. He joined the editorial board of BMC Veterinary Research as a Section Editor in 2017
Ayona Silva-Fletcher, The Royal Veterinary College, UK
Ronald Weigel, University of Illinois, USA
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