Аннотация:Kevin Shingfield was born in 1968 in Watton, a small market town in the district of Breckland in the English county of Norfolk, England.His father was a construction worker and his mother a housewife.Kevin went to school in Watton, thereafter going on to do his B.Sc. at the University of Nottingham.It was at Nottingham, with Phil Garnsworthy, that his deep interest in lipid metabolism and lactation began.His next port of call was the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, where he was keen to learn more about metabolism and microorganisms in the rumen, another topic that would fascinate him throughout his professional career.Unfortunately, his year in Aberdeen 1989-90 was marred by poor health in the form of myalgic encephalomyelitis, which took Kevin a long time to shake off.Subsequently, Kevin went to the Scottish Agricultural College at Auchincruive near Ayr in
