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WAYNE POTTS LABORATORY University of Utah Department of Biology 257 South 1400 East Salt Lake City UT 84112-0840 801-585-9678 CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION GRANT Call for participants We are currently looking for dog owners who wish to participate in research. If you have a purebred dog who has been diagnosed with diabetes, immune-mediated thyroiditis or immune-mediated hemolytic anemia and are interested in this study please click here for more information. WHAT EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXTREME GENETIC DIVERSITY OF HISTOCOMPATIBILITY (MHC) GENES? To answer this question our laboratory utilizes interdisciplinary approaches involving immunology, host-parasite coevolution, behavior, sexual selection and kin selection. Click here for an introduction to the Potts lab research program. For more information about our current projects, check out the pages of the researchers to the left.