Planas Fèlix, Mercè (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)
The identification and analysis of genomic variation across individuals has been central in biology, first through comparative genomics to answer evolutionary questions, and then in the context of ...
Fernández Vidal, Leyden (Date of defense: 2015-01-22)
Se ha demostrado en un número de estudios de metagenómica que la adición y la pérdida de genes específicos ha permitido a los microbiomas adaptarse a condiciones ambientales típicas de los entornos. ...
Guindo Martínez, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been proven useful for identifying thousands of associations between genetic variants and human complex diseases and traits. However, the identified loci ...
Bonàs Guarch, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
The major landmark in modern genomic and biological research has been the first survey of the entire human genome. On June 2000 the staging of Bill Clinton along with Craig Venter and Francis Collins ...
Delgado Serrano, Luisa Fernanda (Date of defense: 2021-12-02)
Human cancer arises as a result of genomic alterations that transform cells and make them to grow without control and to pathological levels. The characterization of such genomic changes has enabled ...
González Rosado, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-04-28)
The genetic and molecular bases of most of the human diseases have become one of the main goals of the human biology in the last decades. To be able to unveil the genetic variations and the affected ...
Valls Margarit, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-06-08)
One of the central aims of biology and biomedicine has been the characterisation and understanding of genetic variation across humans, to answer important evolutionary questions and to explain phenotypic ...
Rodriguez Fos, Elias (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This thesis illustrates the work I have developed as a Ph.D. student in the computational genomics group lead by Dr. David Torrents at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The group’s expertise in the ...
Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, ...
Matías Sánchez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
[eng] In recent years, the genetics field has placed a significant emphasis on identifying and characterizing genetic factors contributing to complex diseases, alongside environmental factors. Genome-wide ...