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Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - IBE (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva). Life & Medical Sciences
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My Ph.D., earned at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Jaume Baguñà and Dr. Marta Riutort, focused on understanding the emergence of bilaterian animals. As a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Andrew Roger at Dalhousie University I worked on eukaryote phylogenomics. Work on my current lab, now at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, aims to unravel the genetic mechanisms involved in the unicellular-to-multicellular transition that gave rise to animals.
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Research Interests
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We are interested in understanding one of the most important evolutionary transitions in lifes history: the emergence of multicellular animals from their unicellular ancestors. To this aim we will obtain the complete genome sequence from two single-celled organisms that are closely related to animals in order to perform large comparative genomic analyses. The information from this project will provide important insights into how multicellularity arose within animals and into the evolutionary origin of gene families that are key for animal development.
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KeyWords
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genomics, phylogenomics, evolutionary biology, multicellularity, Metazoa, protists
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