Wow - THANK YOU ALL!

Sep 11, 2018

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Wow - THANK YOU ALL!I am so grateful to all of you. We have reached the funding goal! Thank you so much for helping us to do this project. It is really a humbling experience to see how many people generously contribute to support science and toads!  We are on our way. Project Purple Rain has yielded more than 400 samples that we will start processing in the lab very soon. I will post updates here when we have bits to share. For now, deepest thanks.
 
Happy field crew. From left to right: Paul Foutz (Colorado Parks and Wildlife), Melissa Chen (PhD student), Tim Korpita (PhD student), and Gena Rumsey (Honors Undergraduate student).

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Maureen A DonnellyBacker

go team!

Sep 11, 20180

Valerie McKenzieResearcher

So grateful to you Mo, for who you are, and for all your support. Giant hug!

Sep 11, 20180

About This Project

Probiotics for wild boreal toads facing a deadly fungal disease

University of Colorado - Boulder

A fungal pathogen spread around the globe by human activities now threatens many amphibians, including boreal toads, a high elevation specialist in the Rocky Mountains. In the lab, we increased toad survival by 40% when we applied a native fungus-fighting bacteria as a probiotic treatment. We are moving this probiotic method from the lab out into the field to assist wild boreal toad populations currently undergoing an epidemic infection caused by the fungus.