Villegas Mirón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
The evolutionary history of the human genome has been shaped by the selection of multiple elements in response to different environmental pressures. The analysis of regulatory adaptations and the ...
Tejero Cicuéndez, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Biodiversity patterns result from the interplay of evolutionary, ecological, and environmental processes. Investigating the drivers of such patterns is central to evolutionary biology, and it is further ...
Sánchez Larsen, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
La ínsula es una región cerebral que participa en la regulación del sistema nervioso autonómico, pero su papel en el control cardiovascular central no está bien definido en la actualidad. Realizamos un ...
Vives, Marc-Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Foreign language processing is hard, sometimes the right words do not come out, sometimes phonemes are incompressible. Words also lose their emotional appeal in a foreign language. How does this affect ...
Pazo Pelegrí, Esther (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
At the end of G1 phase, cells have to decide between continue proliferation or remain in a quiescent state (G0). This decision point, known as “Start” in yeast and “Restriction Point” in metazoans, marks ...
Boronat Rigol, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol ...
Vila-Vidal, Manel (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
Intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is an invasive diagnostic procedure used in severe drug-resistant epilepsy patients that provides simultaneous recordings of multiple brain regions at a very ...
Prado Peralta, María Gabriela (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)
Background: There is evidence suggesting that body weight is associated with lung function, but results are contradictory and suffer from important limitations. We aimed to assess the association of ...
Ferrández Peral, Luis (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
The evolution of transcriptomes has been linked to the emergence of novel phenotypes. However, our knowledge on how isoform diversity has impacted recent human evolution is very limited. To fill this ...
Cruzat Grand, Josefina (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Cognitive processing requires to flexibly combine information from functionally specialized neural processes that are widely distributed throughout the brain. Neuroimaging studies have consistently ...