Baeza Centurión, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-02-27)
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing is a regulated step in eukaryotic gene expression in which introns are removed from the transcript and exons are joined together to form a mature mRNA. To study the effects ...
Frigola Rissech, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)
The rate at which mutations accumulate along the genome is not uniform but influenced by factors such as chromatin compactness, replication time or transcription. Most of these factors create mutational ...
Garrido Martín, Diego (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
We have developed an efficient and reproducible pipeline for the identification of genetic variants affecting splicing (splicing quantitative trait loci or sQTLs), based on an approach that captures the ...
Ocaña Pallarès, Eduard (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)
La present tesi doctoral se centra, d’una banda, en reconstruir l’evolució de famílies gèniques potencialment relacionades amb determinats events de convergència evolutiva en eucariotes; i d’altra banda, ...
Fontseré Alemany, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
Wild chimpanzee populations are considered to be under threat of extinction due to the damaging consequences of human impact into their natural habitat and illegal trade. Conservation genomics is an ...