SUMMARY: Researchers will explore the use of protists, tiny organisms that are part of the skin’s microbial community, as a potential protection against chytrid infection. THE PROBLEM: Fungal diseases are...

Researchers are searching for biomarkers to help identify horses at higher risk for surgical colic complications.

SUMMARY: Researchers will search for naturally occurring antifungal probiotics as a new way to combat deadly chytrid fungus. THE PROBLEM: Chytrid fungi cause deadly skin infections in amphibians that have...

SUMMARY: Researchers will analyze whether myasthenia gravis is the undiagnosed cause of acquired idiopathic megaesophagus in dogs.

Researchers will study proteins and the genetic makeup of the peritoneal fluid (a liquid that acts as a lubricant in the abdominal cavity) as a first step toward a diagnostic test to help predict which horses are at higher risk for colic surgery complications.

Researchers will develop an educational training program for Spanish-speaking horse owners in Colombia to improve early recognition of colic, knowledge of risk factors and appropriate treatment when access to veterinary services is limited.

Researchers will test a probiotic treatment strategy (the use of beneficial, pathogen-inhibiting microbes) in wild boreal toads under threat from an emerging fungal disease.