López Blanch, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)
Neural microexons are the most conserved type of alternative splicing, suggesting a strong functional relevance. Consistently, mutation of their master regulators leads to dramatic neurodevelopmental ...
Sodaei, Reza (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
How do genomes generate different tissues, behaviours, individuals or species? We try to identify parts of the human transcriptome that we found only in a tissue. Then, we focus on inter-individual ...
Mantica, Federica (Date of defense: 2023-05-11)
Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing ...
Torres Méndez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
Post-transcriptional networks control multiple aspects of neuronal biology and their deregulation has been associated with human neurological disorders. This thesis focuses on regulation at the level ...
Wyatt, Christopher Douglas Robert (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
The transition from maternal to embryonic control is a crucial time in an organism’s life cycle, with an overhaul of the epigenetic marks, targeted mRNA degradation and the initiation of transcription. ...
Poliński, Patrik (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Microexons are an unusual form of alternative splicing with high evolutionary conservation, however, their functions are still far from being understood. In this thesis, we focused on a neuronal-specific ...