Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
Imaging Genetics (IG) aims to test how genetic information influences brain structure and function, cognitive processes and complex neurodevelopmental domains, combining magnetic resonance imaging-based ...
Chafino Aixa, Silvia (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
Insect metamorphosis is controlled by several genes that are regulated by two hormones, 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and juvenile hormone (JH). These genes, E93, Krüppel-homolog 1 (Kr-h1) and Broad-complex ...
Heredia Genestar, José María (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)
La mutació és un procés essencial per l’evolució, tot i que també té un rol important tant en el càncer com en altres malalties. Les mutacions no s’acumulen uniformement al llarg del genoma i la seva ...
Hurtado-Bagès, Sarah (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
In the eukaryotic nucleus, DNA, wrapped around a core of histone proteins. Replication-coupled histones can be exchanged by histone variants. In mammals, H2A can be replaced by three distinct macroH2A ...
Muiños Gimeno, Margarita (Date of defense: 2009-12-18)
We have investigated genetic variation in microRNA-mediated regulation as a susceptibility factor for anxiety disorders following two different approaches. We first studied two isoforms of the candidate ...
Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-11-14)
Las enfermedades complejas se encuentran entre las más comunes y son causadas por una combinación de factores genéticos y ambientales (contaminación ambiental, estilo de vida, etc). Entre las enfermedades ...
Bussotti, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2013-01-23)
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of non-coding RNA. This surge is a direct consequence of the discovery of a huge number of new non-coding genes, and of the finding that ...
Flores Bello, André (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
Basque people have been the focus of many studies in the last decades due to cultural and genetic characteristics that place them as an outlier population within the European landscape. Despite the ...
Morancho Armisen, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2008-06-19)
NFAT5 is the main regulator of an osmoprotective gene program that is switched on by osmotic stress. Hypertonicity causes a harmful increase in the intracellular concentration of inorganic ions and ...
Haber, Marc (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
Patterns of human genetic diversity suggest that all modern humans originated from a small population in Africa that expanded rapidly 50,000 years ago to occupy the whole world. While moving into new ...