Ongoing research

Project: “El origen de los animales: una aproximación de biología celular (ANIMALORIGIN)”
PI: Elena Casacuberta and Iñaki Ruiz Trillo
Funding: 345.000 €
Duration: 01/09/2024-31/08/2027
Project number: PID2023-153273NB-I00
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Project: “Reconstructing the urmetazoan protein repertoire and interaction network: an integrative phylogenetic, proteomic, and biochemical approach (SINERGIA)”
PI: Pedro Beltrao, Christophe Dessimoz, Dirk Fasshauer and Iñaki Ruiz Trillo
Funding: 2.813.066 €
Duration: 01/08/2023-31/7/2027
Project number: CRSll5_216623/1
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation

Project: “Search for the missing unicellular relatives of animals (MISSINGRELATIVES)”
PI: Iñaki Ruiz Trillo
Funding: 2.499.948 €
Duration: 01/07/2023-30/06/2028
Project number: 101097659 – MISSINGRELATIVES- ERC-2022-ADG
Funded by: European Research Council

Project: “Evolutionary Transitions and Biodiversity group”
PI: Elena Casacuberta, Daniel Richter, Ricard Solé and Iñaki Ruiz Trillo
Funding: 60.000 €
Duration: 01/01/2022-31/07/2025
Project number: 2021 SGR 00751
Funded by: Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Past projects

2021-2023 “El origen de los animales; una aproximación funcional y de biodiversidad (ORIGINALS)”
Principal Investigators: Iñaki Ruiz Trillo and Elena Casacuberta. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2020-120609GB-I00); 350.000 €

2020-2023 “Exploring the evolutionary origins of size regulation and cell differentiation in premetazoan multicellularity”
Principal Investigator: Koryu Kin. La Caixa Foundation (LCF/BQ/PI20/11760009); 297.900 €

2018-2020 “Origin of Animals: Unravelling the nature of the last unicellular ancestor through a genomic, proteomic and functional approach”.
Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (BFU2017-90114-P); 304.920€

2017-2020 “New Genetic Tools for Marine Protists”. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Co-PI: Elena Casacuberta. Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation. (GBMF4973.01); 404.099$

2016-2020 “SINGEK. Promoting SINgle cell GEnomics to explore the ecology and evolution of hidden microeuKaryotes”. European Comission (H2020-EU.1.3.1.); 3.889.393,2 €

2015-2019 “PREMETAZOANEVOLUTION. Unravelling the unicellular prehistory of metazoans by functional analyses and single-cell genomics”. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2012-Co-616960); 1.967.535€

2015-2017 “Origins, diversification and diversity of metazoa, fungi and its unicellular relatives; an evolutionary and ecological approximation“. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (BFU2014-57779-P); 484.000€

2016-2017 “Screening marine microeukaryotes for their amenability for genetic tool development“. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Co-PI: Elena Casacuberta. Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation. (GBMF4973); 130.015$

2012-2014 “El origen del reino animal: un análisis genómico, filogenómico y de biodiversidad de los linajes unicelulares más cercanos a los animales”. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. (BFU2011-23434); 323.070,00€

2009-2011 “La transición unicelular-multicelular: una aproximación genómica”. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. (BFU2008-02839/BMC).

2008-2013 “A comparative genomic analysis into the origin of metazoan multicellularity”. Principal Investigator: I. Ruiz-Trillo. An ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant to analyze the origin of multicellularity using comparative and functional genomics (ERC-2007-Stg-206883); 1.211.275€

2006-2012 “Animals and Fungi: Common origin, but independent approaches to multicellularity”. Principal Investigators: G. Burger, P. W. Holland, B. F. Lang, N. King, A. J. Roger, I. Ruiz-Trillo & M. W. Gray. A NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute)-endorsed multi-genome initiative aimed at understanding the origins of both multicellular animals and fungi by obtaining the genome sequence of ten unicellular relatives of animals and fungi.