Could ‘organoids’ help optimise rabbit virus management?
Congratulations to post-doctoral scientist Egi Kardia who recently had her work on rabbit intestinal organoids published in the journal Scientific Reports. This work was part of a collaboration with world-leading calicivirus and organoid experts at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Egi and Robyn were able to visit Houston back in 2019 to learn how to work with mouse and human organoids and were then able to transfer these techniques to rabbits to produce rabbit intestinal organoids.
Egi and Robyn visited the Estes lab at Baylor College of Medicine in 2019. This photo was taken for International Women’s Day 2019.
To read more about this exciting work and the implications for rabbit calicivirus research, see the news article produced by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions at https://invasives.com.au/news-events/could-organoids-help-optimise-rabbit-virus-management/ .
You can read the full paper (and see lots of colourful images of our ‘mini rabbit intestines’!) at Scientific Reports here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84774-w?elqTrackId=a103b28baac1441495045f62d3544063