DrAnthony Redmond

My Research revolves around the use and development of bioinformatic, omic, and phylogenetic approaches to understand the evolutionary history of animals and their genomes. Across my career I have focused on three areas of special interest: 1. The origins and evolution of the immune system, with a view to improving understanding of the immune response in understudied species (including the hopeful detection of novel immune strategies and molecules), our ancient ancestors, as well as that of ourselves. 2. Developing phylogenomic strategies to help resolve long-standing and difficult problems that prohibit resolution of the tree of life. 3. Understanding the role of gene and genome duplication in the history of life, in particular the mechanisms of rediploidization (the return of a duplicated genome to diploid) and its links to survival through ancient mass extinctions and the generation of biodiversity.