Sebé Pedrós, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition and a poorly understood one. In recent years, the sequencing of the genomes of several earlybranching metazoans, such as sponges ...
Mora García, Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-10-26)
Drosophila es un modelo versátil para entender las bases genéticas de la señalización celular. En particular, el ojo compuesto de Drosophila proporciona un tejido ideal para estudiar los mecanismos de ...
Docampo Martínez, Elisa (Date of defense: 2013-04-16)
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a highly disabling syndrome defined by a low pain threshold and a permanent state of pain. Widespread pain is accompanied by a constellation of symptoms such as fatigue, sleep ...
Lafzi, Atefeh (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized the way molecular mechanisms were being studied by allowing the dissection of gene expression at single-cell resolution. The data acquired from scRNA-seq ...
Garrido Antequera, Georgina (Date of defense: 2014-09-16)
Heterotrimeric G proteins are masters regulators of cell homeostasis. They coordinate the signaling between G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their intracellular effectors. Heterotrimeric G proteins ...
Ullastres i Coll, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
A major challenge of modern Biology is elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation. While there are many SNP-based studies trying to elucidate the genetic basis of genotype-phenotype relationships, the ...
Garcia Linares, Carles (Date of defense: 2012-12-13)
Neurofibromatosis type 1 patients present a high variability in their clinical expressivity. The most common manifestation is the appearance of dermal neurofibromas, benign tumors that arise in the ...
Okenve Ramos, Pilar Moyong (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
How a chemoattractant can act on a tissue to induce its migration towards that source? I have tried to answer this question in this research using as migratory tissue model the Drosophila respiratory ...
Oliveira Monteiro, Freddy Miguel de (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne beta-proteobacterium that causes wilting disease on a wide range of plants with economic importance like tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant and banana. Each year, ...
Gutiérrez Vallejo, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Development of the posterior spinal cord involves secondary neurulation, a process poorly understood in which neural tube is formed by cavitation of the tail bud. Comprehension of secondary neurulation ...