Compassionate Conservation in the Woodhams Lab

To facilitate creative disease ecology research, and to encourage compassionate solutions from the next generation of conservation researchers,

the Woodhams lab will place a moratorium on animal infection experiments beginning in 2023.

By not attending to the holobiont, reductionist lab experiments may misconstrue outcomes affecting collectives such as populations, communities, or species.

By focusing on wholistic natural relationships over reductionist approaches we believe we can attain more rapid progress toward disease mitigation and personalized medicine.

Rather than euthanasia, researchers interested in obtaining healthy adult Ambystoma maculatum or other species from our lab should contact douglas.woodhams@umb.edu for transfer of animals to new IACUC approved protocols.