“Currently, the majority of my research is largely concerned with the development of new and improvement of existing managerial methods for the control of parasites to further support sustainable animal production practices throughout the United States,” says Brandon Smythe, Ph.D., director of the Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory at the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at New Mexico State University (NMSU). “This, of course, branches into many ongoing research objectives which open the door to multiple academic and private industry collaborations that have been extremely fruitful in my early career.”