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Here are summaries of the projects that we are currently working on, plus a few of our recently completed projects.
Retirement Benefits for Racehorses: Understanding and Supporting Gut Health in Retirement
2026 – 2030
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
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
Influence of forage type on gut microbiome
2015 – 2019
Keywords: Forage, hay, haylage, horse, metabolomics, microbiota
