Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Filipe Dantas-Torres, MV, MSc, DSc, PhD, FRES, EBVS Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology, Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Dr. Filipe Dantas-Torres is a researcher at the Aggeu Magalhães Institute and the chair of the Tropical Council for Companion Animal Parasites. He is a veterinarian with a MSc and a DSc in public health and a PhD in animal health and zoonosis. He is an EBVS^® European Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology. Dr. Dantas-Torres is an international leader in the field of parasitology, with a focus on vector-borne diseases. His work has been recognized internationally through numerous scientific publications and invited book chapters. In 2010, Dr. Dantas-Torres was elected Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in recognition of his expertise in the field of medical and veterinary entomology. He has received numerous awards, such as the 2013 Peter Nansen Young Scientist Award and the 2016 Odile Bain Memorial Prize. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Medical and Veterinary Entomology and has served as a reviewer, associate editor and subject editor of Parasites & Vectors for several years.


Subject Editors

Dipteran vectors and associated diseases

Fredros Okumu, PhD, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania
Dr. Fredros Okumu is Director of Science at the Ifakara Health Institute and Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science & Technology, Tanzania. He is a mosquito biologist and public health expert working on sustainable approaches for surveillance, prevention and control of vector-borne diseases. He is also passionate about improving ecosystems for young researchers in Africa. His work has been published internationally in several prestigious scientific journals. He tweets @Fredros_Inc and occasionally writes posts for the Malaria World blog. 

Marco Pombi, PhD, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dr. Marco Pombi is Associate Professor in Parasitology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. As a medical entomologist, he has worked extensively in malaria endemic countries, exploring several aspects of vector biology, ranging from evolutionary biology, speciation and genetics of mosquitoes, to the ecology and behaviour in relation to their vector role. He has been developing new sampling methods for surveillance, monitoring and control of disease vectors.


Helminths and helminthic diseases

Martin Walker, PhD, Royal Veterinary College and Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Martin Walker is Lecturer in Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College, UK, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. He is an active member of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, the Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium and leads the schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases research theme at the Infectious Disease Data Observatory. Martin’s research interests broadly lie in the use of mathematical techniques, including disease transmission models, to assist public health decision making on interventions aiming to eliminate human helminthiases and other tropical diseases. He is also interested in statistical approaches to identifying antiparasitic drug resistance and the use of modelling to support drug development.


Parasite genetics, genomics and proteomics

Xing-Quan Zhu, PhD, Shanxi Agricultural University, China
Dr. Xing-Quan Zhu was trained as a veterinarian with a BVSc degree and a MVSc degree. He obtained his PhD and acquired postdoctoral training in molecular parasitology at the Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia between 1996-2001. He is the Distinguished Professor of Parasitology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, China. His current research integrates “multi-omics”, molecular and immunological approaches to study parasite biology and parasite-host interactions. His work has been recognized internationally through numerous scientific publications in well-regarded international journals including Lancet Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Nature Communications, Trends in Parasitology and Parasites & Vectors.


Parasite Immunology

Prof. Dr. Friederike Ebner, Technische Universität München, Germany
Dr. Friederike Ebner is Assistant Professor in Infection Pathogenesis at the Technical University Munich in Germany. She is steering committee member of the European Veterinary Immunology Group (EVIG). She acquired postdoctoral training in parasite immunology at the Institute for Immunology of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As an immunologist she researches on the interactions between gastrointestinal helminths and the immune systems of animals and humans. There she aims to understand how immunity is generated and how parasites evade the immune response in order to derive intervention and vaccine strategies from this knowledge.


Parasites of veterinary importance

Adnan Hodžić, DVM, MVSc, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Adnan Hodžić received his veterinary degree (DVM) from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and an MSc in Veterinary Parasitology from the same University. In 2014, he joined the Institute of Parasitology of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, where he completed his PhD studies and the EVPC residency program. He now works in the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science at the University of Vienna. He is an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology. His outstanding scientific contributions in the field of parasitology have been recognized by two international awards (Sinnecker-Kunz Award 2019 and Odile Bain Memorial Prize 2020).


Protozoa and protozoan diseases

Pegine Walrad, PhD, University of York, UK
Dr. Pegine Walrad is an Associate Professor in the York Biomedical Research Institute at the Univ. of York specialising in parasite lifecycle trans-regulators that promote virulence. Previous work isolated and characterized protein domains and 10 novel interacting cofactors (e.g. Hairless) of Runt/Runx transcription factor in Drosophila, and the first trans-regulator of surface antigens and a novel pathway of mRNA export in Trypanosoma brucei parasites. Current research focuses on genetic regulators of Leishmania parasite differentiation to human-infectious forms.


Ticks and tick-borne diseases

Anna Bajer, PhD, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Anna Bajer is Head of the Department of Eco-epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Bajer and her lab focus on a range of eco-epidemiological studies on ticks and vector-borne diseases (babesiosis, borreliosis, bartonellosis, dirofilariasis); on factors influencing parasite communities in rodents, model free-living hosts (helminths and haemoparasite community); and on reservoir of intestinal microparasites (Cryptosporidium, Giardia). She has also worked on molecular diversity and molecular phylogeny of micro- and macroparasites of medical and veterinary significance.


Founding Editor
Chris Arme, PhD, DSc (Emeritus Professor) University of Keele, UK

 

Associate Editors: Dipteran vectors and associated diseases
Dr. Norbert Becker, PhD, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Gioia Bongiorno, PhD, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Vincent Corbel, PhD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
Luciano V. Cosme, PhD, Yale University, USA
Sara Epis, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Josiane Etang, PhD, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Claudia Fortuna, PhD, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Camila González Rosas, PhD, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Basile Kamgang, PhD, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine/OCEAC, Cameroon
N. Pradeep Kumar, PhD, lCMR - Vector Control Research Centre, India, (Emeritus)      
Camila Lorenz, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Marta Maia, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Ademir Martins, PhD, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Pie Müller, PhD, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Ellie Sherrard-Smith, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Sibao Wang, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Charles Wondji, PhD, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

Associate Editors: Helminths and helminthic diseases
Martha Betson, PhD, MA, MSc, FHEA, University of Surrey, UK
Scott Lawton, PhD, Scotland's Rural College, UK
Carlos Graeff Teixeira, PhD, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Barbora Pafčo, PhD, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Joaquin Prada, PhD, University of Surrey, UK

Associate Editors: Parasite genetics, genomics and proteomics
Guangxu Ma, PhD, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
Jenny Maloney, PhD, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, USA
Juan David Ramírez, PhD, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Seth Redmond, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Javier Sotillo-Gallego, PhD, National Centre for Microbiology, Spain

Associate Editors: Parasite Immunology
Adler Dillman, PhD, University of California, Riverside, USA

Associate Editors: Parasites of veterinary importance
Pablo Borrás, DVM, Centro Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion en Endemo Epidemias, Argentina
Jeba Jesudoss Chelladurai, DACVM, PhD, Auburn University, USA
Alicia Rojas, PhD, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Alireza Sazmand, DVM, PhD, Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran

Associate Editors: Protozoa and protozoan diseases
Carolina Catta-Preta, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health, USA
Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi, PhD, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil
Caroline Dewar, MBiochem, PhD, Lancaster University, UK
Christopher Fernández Prada, DVM MSc PhD, Université de Montréal, Canada
Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, PhD, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Joanna Hildebrand, PhD, University of Wrocław, Poland
Iván Pastor Fernandez, PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Marta Maruszewska-Cheruiyot, PhD, Lazarski University, Poland
Suzanne McDermott, PhD, Seattle Children’s Research Institute Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, and University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
Louisa Messenger, PhD, MSc, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Associate Editors: Ticks and tick-borne diseases
Dorota Dwużnik-Szarek, PhD, University of Warsaw, Poland
Jairo Mendoza, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Andrei Daniel Mihalca, PhD, MSc, DVM, Dipl. ECZM, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, DVM, DSc University of Concepción, Chile
Prof. Dr. med. vet. Cornelia Silaghi, Friedrich Loeffler Institut, Germany
Katarzyna Tołkacz, PhD, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Editorial Board
Sangaran Arumugam, PhD, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, India
Giovanni Benelli, PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
Basil Brooke, PhD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Cinzia Cantacessi, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Maureen Coetzee, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Doug Colwell, PhD, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Vincent Corbel, PhD, L’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Benin
Tim Day, PhD, Iowa State University, USA
Heather Ferguson, PhD, FRSE, University of Glasgow, UK
Wendy Gibson, PhD, DSc, University of Bristol, UK
David Gorla, PhD, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
Mario J Grijalva, PhD, Ohio University, USA
Edmundo Grisard, PhD, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Simon Hay, DPhil, DSc, FMedSci, University of Washington, USA
Hilary Hurd, PhD, (Emeritus Professor) University of Keele, UK (Senior Blog Editor for the BugBitten blog)
Roberta Iatta, DPHC, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Louise Kelly-Hope, PhD, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Gerry Killeen, PhD, University College Cork, Ireland
Bart Knols, PhD, K&S Consulting, Netherlands
Benjamin Koudou, PhD, University of Abobo-Adjamé, Côte d'Ivoire
Jo Lines, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Carla Maia, DVM, MSc, PhD, DiplEVPC, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal
Donald P McManus, DSc, PhD, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Raphael N'Guessan, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Benin
Pin Nie, PhD, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Peter Olson, PhD, The Natural History Museum, UK
Ellie Sherrard-Smith, PhD, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Frederic Simard, PhD, L’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France
Hein Sprong, PhD, National Institute of Public Health and Environment, Netherlands
Dietmar Steverding, PhD, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Dr. Bernd Sures, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mark Taylor, PhD, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Andrew Thompson, BSc, PhD, DIC, Murdoch University, Australia
Donato Traversa, DVM, University of Teramo, Italy
Adriana Troyo, PhD, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Jürg Utzinger, PhD, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Guilherme G Verocai, DVM, MSc, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA
Anthony Walker, PhD, Kingston University, UK
Samuel Wanji, PhD, University of Buea, Cameroon
Susan Welburn, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stephen Wikel, PhD, (Emeritus Professor) Quinnipiac University, USA
Xiao-Nong Zhou, PhD, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, CDC, China