Projects

Microbiome of the Equine Gut and Respiratory Tract: Associations Between Bacterial Communities in Different Body Compartments and Animal Health

2024 – 2028

Keywords: Microbiome, respiratory microbiota, gut microbiota, gut-lung axis, cytokine

A Healthy Start: Early-life Gut Bacterial Colonisation and Immunological Priming in the Foal

2025 - 2027

Keywords: Microbiome, inflammation, cytokine, equine, health, immunomodulation 

A Collaborative Approach to Biomarker Discovery for Equine Grass Sickness

2024 – 2027

Keywords: Proteomics, equine grass sickness, neurodegenerative disease

Alborada Well Foal Study Part 2

2024 – 2027

Key words: Gut microbiome, thoroughbred racehose, gut model

Next Generation Probiotics - ‘Omics-based Identification of Candidate Bacteria’

2023 – 2026

Keywords: Thoroughbred racehorses, probiotic, metagenomics, culturomics, phenomics, gut health

Alborada Well Foal Study Part 1

2017 – 2023

Keywords: Horse, early-life, gut microbiome, antibiotics, health, performance, survival analysis

Bugs, bones and vitamin D – A pilot project

2024

Keywords: Horse, vitamin D, microbiome, diet, bone strength, ultrasonic speed of sound