Rojo Laguna, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Some animals have incredible regenerative abilities which kept researchers fascinating during decades. How these animals are able to regenerate missing parts and restore damaged tissues can give researchers ...
Espart Herrero, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-09-16)
Metallothioneins (MTs) are a superfamily of ubiquitous and small cysteine rich metalloproteins present in all eukaryotes and some prokaryotes organisms, that exhibit preferences to coordinate divalent ...
Tamirlsa, Srlvldya (Date of defense: 2014-07-14)
La ciencia básica ha de engarzarse con las necesidades sociales. Así, nuestro laboratorio esta involucrado en identificar genes específicamente modulados durante el proceso de cicatrización mediante ...
Rivera Brugués, Núria (Date of defense: 2012-03-20)
Genomic microarray analysis is rapidly replacing conventional chromosome analysis by molecular karyotyping due to the significant increase in the power to detect causative CNVs. Here, we extensively ...
Barrio Guerrero, Lara (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
The integration of nutrient status to metabolic homeostasis at the cellular and organismal level is a complex process performed in multicellular organisms, and the ability of an organism to respond to ...
García Vázquez, David (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
CHAPTER 1: Reconstructing ancient Mediterranean crossroads in Deronectes diving beetles Aim: To reconstruct the evolutionary history of a genus of freshwater beetle with a pan- Mediterranean distribution, ...
Pappa, Stella (Date of defense: 2019-04-10)
During neural development, signaling molecules and networks of expressed transcription factors cooperate to control cellular fate. Chromatin acting factors are essential players in cell proliferation ...
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 ...
Santos Barriopedro, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)
Chromatin compaction is regulated by different factors, among them histone posttranslational modifications. There are different histone modifications, and among them, acetylation and methylation of ...
El Mouali Benomar, Youssef (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
The regulation of the expression of virulence genes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an intensively studied feature of Salmonella lifestyle. How Salmonella integrates environmental signals ...