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    Identificación y análisis funcional de nuevos oncogenes amplificados en cáncer de pulmón 

    Castillo Díez, Sandra (Date of defense: 2011-11-09)

    El análisis de la expresión global y de número de copias de DNA en tumores primarios y líneas celulares de cáncer de pulmón reveló la presencia de amplificación génica en los cromosomas 11q12, 13q34 y 6p22. En los cromosomas ...

    Identificación y caracterización de alteraciones epigenéticas responsables de síndrome de Lynch y Lynch-like 

    Dámaso Riquelme, Estela (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)

    La deficiencia reparadora es una característica de los tumores de individuos con síndrome de Lynch, los cuales son portadores de mutaciones o epimutaciones en línea germinal de los genes reparadores de desapareamientos del ...

    Identificación, biogénesis y función de Dominios ER-HMGR de retículo endoplasmático en Arabidopsis thaliana 

    Grados Torrez, Ricardo Enrique (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)

    La sobreexpresión del dominio de membrana de la Hidroximetil glutaril CoA reductasa (HMGR) en Arabidopsis thaliana desencadena la formación de agregados vesiculares de retículo endoplasmático (RE), esta capacidad morfogénica ...

    Identification and characterization of new complex patterns of structural DNA and RNA alterations in cancer 

    Delgado Serrano, Luisa Fernanda (Date of defense: 2021-12-02)

    Human cancer arises as a result of genomic alterations that transform cells and make them to grow without control and to pathological levels. The characterization of such genomic changes has enabled understanding tumor ...

    Identification and characterization of non-coding genomic variations associated to cancer diseases 

    González Rosado, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-04-28)

    The genetic and molecular bases of most of the human diseases have become one of the main goals of the human biology in the last decades. To be able to unveil the genetic variations and the affected cellular processes ...

    Identification and functional analysis of molecular mechanisms involved in the latency of ER positive breast cancer 

    Henryka Gawrzak, Sylwia (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)

    Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and remains the second leading cause of death among women in Europe and United States. In this malignancy, metastasis remains to be an incurable condition, and therefore ...

    Identification of novel mechanisms in human breast cancer lung metastasis and chemoresistance 

    Arenas Lahuerta, Enrique Javier (Date of defense: 2017-04-07)

    Breast Cancer (BC) is one of the major causes of cancer deaths in women. BC is a heterogeneous disease, and within the heterogeneity of the tumor, Tumor-Initiating Cells (TICs) have been reported as important drivers in ...

    Identification of suppressors of the constitutive photomorphogenic phenotype of pifq: from chloroplasts to rhythmic growth 

    Martín Matas, Guiomar (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)

    Plants germinated in the dark under the soil surface, undergo skotomorphogenic development. Once they emerge from the soil surface perceive light for the first time. Then, seedlings switch from skotomorphogenic to ...

    Impacts of climate and drought on tree radial growth in Neotropical dry forests: Scaling up from short to long time-scales = Impactos del clima y las sequías en el crecimiento radial de los árboles en los bosques secos Neotropicales: Evaluación de sus efectos a diferentes escalas temporales 

    Chaparro Mendivelso, Hooz Angela (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)

    This thesis analyzed the dynamics of tree radial growth at different time-scales in relation to climate and drought in two tropical dry forests (TDFs) from Colombia (Tuluá) and Bolivia (INPA). The specific objectives were: ...

    Implementació i desenvolupament d'estudis funcionals per demostrar la patogenicitat de variants de significat incert i identificar nous gens causants de malaltia 

    Muñoz Pujol, Gerard (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

    [cat] Les malalties metabòliques hereditàries (MMH) són un grup de patologies amb una gran heterogeneïtat clínica, bioquímica i genètica. Actualment se n’han descrit més de 1 800. En l’última dècada la implementació de ...

    Implementation of a novel analytical framework for large-scale genetic data. Extending the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes beyond common variants 

    Bonàs Guarch, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)

    The major landmark in modern genomic and biological research has been the first survey of the entire human genome. On June 2000 the staging of Bill Clinton along with Craig Venter and Francis Collins extolled how genome ...

    Improving the description of protein-protein association energy 

    Romero Durana, Miguel Alfonso (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)

    Proteins play a crucial role in virtually every biological process taking place within our cells. Most of the times, proteins do not participate in these processes alone but forming complexes of two or more proteins. ...

    In silico design of antibodies for biomedical applications 

    Amengual-Rigo, Pep (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)

    Proteins are large macromolecules constituted by amino acids that are responsible for most of the biological processes within a cell. Proteins showing high complementary affinity may bind forming protein-protein complexes. ...

    Influence of predictable anthropogenic food subsides on seabird´s breeding investment 

    Real Garcia, Enric (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)

    Recent policies on the ban of fishing discards and the closure of open-air landfills are expected to reduce amount of predictable anthropogenic food subsidies (PAFS) for seabirds. To forecast the ecological consequences ...

    Integrating agriculture and conservation: The value of fallow land and its management for farmland and steppe bird conservation 

    Sanz Pérez, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)

    Extensive farmland ecosystems are widespread and biodiversity-rich, yet they face important human pressures since the beginning of agriculture intensification, which is leading them into a severe biodiversity crisis. As a ...

    Integrating structural and X-chromosome variants in genetic studies of complex diseases 

    Matías Sánchez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)

    [eng] In recent years, the genetics field has placed a significant emphasis on identifying and characterizing genetic factors contributing to complex diseases, alongside environmental factors. Genome-wide association ...

    Integrative Genomic Analyses of Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors 

    Magallón Lorenz, Miriam (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)

    [eng] Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are rare soft-tissues sarcomas of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) with poor prognosis and lack of therapeutic options. Complete resection with wide margins of the ...

    Interplay of genetic, epigenetic and transcription factors in the regulation of transcriptional variation in Plasmodium falciparum 

    Michel Todó, Lucas (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)

    [eng] The most severe form of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum parasites, still kills over half a million people every year, most of them children under the age of five. Despite huge research efforts, reduction in ...

    Investigating genetic and mechanistic interactors in familial cardoimyopathy through advanced disease modeling 

    Escribá Piera, Rubén (Date of defense: 2022-03-17)

    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiac disease and a frequent cause of heart failure and sudden cardiac death. HCM is a highly complex condition defined by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. ...

    Investigating the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons´s disease using patient-specific derived astrocytes 

    Fernández Carasa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)

    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable, chronically progressive disorder of old age leading to premature invalidity and death. Clinically, PD is characterized by classical motor syndrome linked to a progressive loss of ...