Decoding the animal "operating system"
We uncover how pre-animal cell states, regulatory programs, and developmental mechanisms were reorganized into the first multicellular animals
We want to unravel how unicellular organisms gave rise to the first multicellular animals.
Join our journey to uncover the foundations of animal life. We use genomics, cell biology, phylogenetics and microbial methods.
By studying our closest unicellular relatives—filastereans, ichthyosporeans, corallochytreans and the missing 'Magnificent 8'—we aim to reconstruct the animal "operating system" that make that leap possible. We also aim to eventually re-create the transition to animal life.
Using the closest unicellular relatives of animals, we reconstruct the biological logic that preceded animal multicellularity
