Sala Romanyà, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
Snail1 is a transcription factor which activity is required for the fibroblasts-to-myofibroblast differentiation. In the first part of the thesis we characterize a protein complex involving Snail1, PRMT1 ...
Rubio Pérez, Carlota (Date of defense: 2017-11-28)
Cancer is a disease of the genome. The study of tumor genomic alterations is used to guide several precision medicine strategies, some approved and a large number under clinical development. On the other ...
Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...
Vali Pour Jamnani, Mischan (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Somatic mutations are an inevitable component of ageing and the most important cause of cancer. The rates and types of somatic mutation vary across individuals, but relatively few inherited influences ...
Güney, Emre (Date of defense: 2012-09-25)
The cell is governed by the complex interactions among various types of biomolecules. Coupled with environmental factors, variations in DNA can cause alterations in normal gene function and lead to a ...
Pavlovic, Milica (Date of defense: 2014-03-11)
El objetivo de esta tesis era identificar determinantes genéticos de cáncer de mama con metástasis óseas. Para ello se utilizó un enfoque integral que se sustenta en células humanas de cáncer de mama, ...
Núñez Ollé, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-07-04)
Cyclin O, a novel identified CDK1 and CDK2-binding cyclin, has been demonstrated to be required for γ-radiation induced apoptosis in a lymphoid cell line. Ɣ-radiation induces the formation of DSBs in ...
Bassaganyas Bars, Laia (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Over the last ten years, improvements in molecular techniques and the arrival of the next-generation sequencing technologies have revealed a large amount of structural variation (SV) in the human genome. ...
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 ...
Alba Castellón, Lorena (Date of defense: 2016-02-17)
Snail transcription factor 1 triggers epithelial to mesenchymal transition. In cancer, this process provides tumoral epithelial cells with invasive characteristics. In this thesis, we demonstrated that ...