Payo Payo, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-04-28)
The overarching aim of my thesis was to assess the role of environmental variability and specially of perturbations in the population dynamics of social vertebrates. Our results emphasize the need to ...
Valls Margarit, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-06-08)
One of the central aims of biology and biomedicine has been the characterisation and understanding of genetic variation across humans, to answer important evolutionary questions and to explain phenotypic ...
Rotger Vallespir, Andreu (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
Many topics in ecology and evolution are currently being studied under the framework of eco- evolutionary dynamics that is to say integrating genetic, ecological and demographic data. Here, I have focused ...
Sfriso, Pedro (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
Sequence, structure and dynamics are an indivisible tandem to understand protein function. Luckily, evolution imposed a hierarchical rational between that facilitates the analysis: dynamics are encoded ...
Janatian, Nasime (Date of defense: 2021-08-27)
In the present thesis we focus on the two extremes of the wind speed – storms and atmospheric stilling – and analyse their impacts on lake environments and phytoplankton dynamics over short and long ...
López Ferrando, Víctor (Date of defense: 2019-12-11)
Single amino acid variants (SAVs) are one of the main causes of Mendelian disorders, and play an important role in the development of many complex diseases. At the same time, they are the most common ...
Maher, Michael (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
The role of fatty acids to overcome stress and contribute to disease progression is becoming increasingly evident in haematological diseases. Further, epigenetic factors play an important role in the ...
Cañete Ríos, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
Xenopus laevis oocytes are transcriptionally silent cells that require hormone stimulation for maturing into fecundation-competent eggs. Meiosis resumption underlying oocyte maturation is governed by ...
Querejeta Coma, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
The study of intraspecific diversity is essential in ecology and evolution as they reveal fine-scale patterns and it is crucial in conservation planning. The main aim of this thesis is to study the ...
Rodriguez Fos, Elias (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This thesis illustrates the work I have developed as a Ph.D. student in the computational genomics group lead by Dr. David Torrents at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The group’s expertise in the ...