Unfortunately our equine friends do sometimes have health issues.  We are currently conducting studies on a number of conditions...

One of the most common causes of laminitis, EMS, or Equine Metabolic Syndrome is a difficult disease to diagnose and treat...

Through centuries of selective breeding we have shaped their skeletal conformation of the horse to perform a variety of tasks...

Horses are born to move.  No surprise that they have acquired a remarkable diversity in their gait...

Disease

Size and Shape

Metabolic Syndrome

Polymorphic Gait

​​Research Projects Currently Recruiting Samples

We focus on the use of genome-scale tools to study health and disease in the horse. 

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