Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101150

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150101150

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Using sponge transcriptomes to understand ancestral animal development. The invention of a basic developmental program was likely a key step in the transition to multicellularity in animals, one of the major transitions in the tree of life. By combining next-generation sequencing of a representative panel of sponges and functional studies on an oviparous sponge, this project aims to identify gene interactions and networks that built the first animal embryos over 680 million years ago. Furthermore, the role of Wingless (Wnt) signalling in patterning these ancestral embryos along a primordial anterior-posterior axis will be investigated. Piecing together the fundamental molecular machinery shared by all animal embryos will shed light on the molecular basis for the complex development of most animals on Earth.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-05-2015

End Date: 30-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $362,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Evolution of Developmental Systems | Molecular Evolution | Invertebrate Biology | Evolutionary Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Evolution of Developmental Systems | Evolutionary Biology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Invertebrate Biology | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Molecular Evolution

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