Funded! Maria has been awarded the WDA-A research award 2019!!

Congratulations to our PhD student Maria Puig Ribas for being awarded the Wildlife Disease Association-Australasia's Research Award for 2019!!

Maria assists in gently collecting a Fleay's barred frog egg clutch for captive-rearing (photo credit: Dave Newell)

Maria's project is titled "Characterising the immune response to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in larval stages of the endangered Fleay's barred frog". The funding will assist her with processing and analysing histological samples to help improve our understanding of the role of tadpoles as reservoirs for chytridiomycosis.

Fleay's barred frogs in amplexus (photo credit: Matt Hollanders)