Torruella i Cortés, Guifré (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
To understand the origin of opisthokonts or infer evolutionary transitions within the group that contains two multicellular lineages (animals and fungi), it is first fundamental to understand the ...
Álvarez Ponce, David (Date of defense: 2010-09-21)
Els gens estan sotmesos a forces selectives diferents. Un dels objectius de la Biologia Evolutiva és entendre els factors que determinen aquestes diferències. Els gens rarament actuen de manera aïllada, ...
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 ...
Guio Leiman, Laín (Date of defense: 2016-03-17)
Elucidating the fitness effects of natural genetic variants is one of the current major challenges in evolutionary biology. Understanding the interplay between genotype, phenotype and environment is ...
Martín Fernández, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-06-13)
La trombosis es el principal factor responsable de la enfermedad tromboembólica venosa (VTE). Esta enfermedad es la tercera causa de muerte cardiovascular a nivel mundial. Se describe como una enfermedad ...
Soy Platero, Judit (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)
Arabidopsis thaliana seedling growth and development is influenced by both external (such as light and temperature) and internal (like hormones or circadian clock) factors. In short-day (SD) growing ...
Planas Marqués, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of the devastating disease known as bacterial wilt. This disease affects more than 200 plant species in over 50 families, including economically ...
Porta Pardo, Eduard (Date of defense: 2013-03-05)
In the era of “omics” data, the use of computational approaches to store, integrate and analyze biological information is becoming a priority, particularly in the field of biomedicine and the study of ...
Rodríguez Vaello, Victoria Eugenia (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
A fundamental step in embryo development is the transition through pluripotency. There are two known sequential states of pluripotency termed naïve and primed pluripotency. Considerable efforts have ...
Norris, Richard (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
Insulinomas are extremely rare pancreatic neuroendocrine (PNET) tumours that develop from the β-cells of the pancreas.β-cells are the only cells capable of producing the hormine insulin, and play a major ...