Hinojosa Galisteo, Joan Carles (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)
Butterflies are among the best studied animals, but despite the research efforts carried out during centuries, our knowledge on their diversity and on the mechanisms generating it is still incomplete. In ...
Castellano Hereza, Sergi (Date of defense: 2004-07-23)
Although the genome sequence and gene content are available for an increasing number of organisms, eukaryotic selenoproteins remain poorly characterized. In these proteins, selenium (Se) is incorporated ...
Dios Martínez, Toni de (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Infectious diseases have affected humanity since its apparition in Africa 300,000 years ago. Demographic changes associated to the Neolithic transition, and ensuing population movements, have facilitated ...
Mixão, Verónica de Pinho (Date of defense: 2020-10-20)
Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How ...
Santesmasses Ruiz, Didac (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)
La selenocïsteina és coneguda com a l'aminoàcid 21. Les selenoproteïnes incorporen selenocïsteina en resposta a codons UGA específics mitjançant un mecanisme de recodificació, el qual és present en els ...
Abril Ferrando, Josep Francesc (Date of defense: 2005-05-17)
L'incessant augment del nombre de seqüències genòmiques, juntament amb <br/>l'increment del nombre de tècniques experimentals de les que es disposa, <br/>permetrà obtenir el catàleg complet de les ...
Vujatovic, Olivera (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)
We did functional characterisation of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone, dH1. In the mutant state for this protein, we observed structural changes in polytene chromosomes chromocenter and nucleoli ...
Piñero González, Janet (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
In the last two decades, the volume and variety of biomedical data has dramatically increased. The data is heterogeneous and scattered across many resources. This produces bottlenecks in the analysis ...
Chapple, Charles E. (Date of defense: 2009-07-15)
Les selenoproteïnes constitueixen una família diversa de proteïnes, caracteritzada per la presència del Seleni (Se), en forma de l'amino àcid atípic, la selenocisteïna (Sec). La selenocisteïna, coneguda ...
Jhanwar, Shalu (Date of defense: 2017-01-11)
Epigenetics provides a plausible link between the environment and changes in gene expression that might contribute to disease phenotypes. The main goal of the thesis is to study epigenomic variability ...