Projects Funded in 2009

• Deciphering the Mechanism of Equine Inflammatory Airway Disease in vitro (1 year)
  Dorothy Ainsworth


• Expression Microarrays and Equine Placental Development (2 years)
  Douglas Antczak


• Further Characterization of the Specific Activity and Ultrastructural Localization of Phospholipase C Zeta in Fertile and Subfertile Stallions (2 years)
  Sylvia Bedford-Guaus and Mark Roberson


• The Phagocyte Response Against R equi in Foals (Year 2)
  Julia Flaminio


• The Role of Telomerase and Small G-Proteins in Senescence of Articular Chondrocytes (1 year)
  Lisa Fortier


• Indices of Intra-Abdominal Fibrinolysis in Colic Foals: Pathogenic and Prognostic Markers (Year 2)
  Susan Fubini


• Genomic Profiling of Osteochondritis Dissecans Using an Equine Whole Transcript Exon Array (Year 2)
  Alan Nixon


• Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Targets in Joint Disease as Check-Points for Gene Inhibition (Year 2)
  Alan Nixon


• Immunization Against Strangles Using a Vectored Equine Herpesvirus Vaccine (1 year)
  Gillian Perkins and Klaus Osterrieder


• Therapy and Prevention of Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) Induced Disease(Year 2)
  Gillian Perkins


• Factors Affecting Airway Stability at Exercise: A Combined Neuroanatomical, Clinical and Engineering Methodology (Year 2)
  Jeremy Rawlinson and Norm Ducharme


• Analysis of the Innate Immune Response to EHV-1 Infection (2 years)
  Bettina Wagner