Prof. Mike Taylor, BVMS, PhD, MRCVS, Dip.EVPC, Dip.ECRSHM, CBiol, MSB, graduated from Glasgow in 1976. After six years in practice, he joined first the British State Veterinary Service for three years and then the Central Veterinary Laboratory in Weybridge (later to become VLA), where he worked for 18 years, specialising in parasitology. He is currently a veterinary consultant at the United Kingdom’s Food and Environment Research Agency in York. He is a visiting professor in Veterinary Parasitology at the Royal Veterinary College, London and at Bangor University Wales, a Diplomate of the European Colleges of Veterinary Parasitology and Small Ruminant Health and Management, editor-in-chief for the journal Veterinary Parasitology and first author of the textbook Veterinary Parasitology 3rd edition.