Gracia Latorre, Elena (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
[eng] Enhancers are the master regulators of gene expression. Genes rely on them to be differentially expressed in different tissues, developmental time points or contexts. In recent years, it has been ...
Serra Camprubí, Queralt (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)
[eng] The field of cancer treatment has shifted towards personalized medicine, driven by advancements in understanding molecular and genetic abnormalities and identifying specific targets within cancer ...
Rojas Salarich, Itziar de (Date of defense: 2023-07-05)
[eng] Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Research in the past decade has led to major progress in understanding the genetic etiology of the disease; since I started my ...
Bujosa Rodriguez, Paula (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
[eng] Linker histones are essential proteins involved in higher-order chromatin structures and architectural functions. However, their roles extend beyond structure, encompassing various chromatin ...
Salinas Pena, Mónica (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)
[eng] The histone H1 family comprises up to seven members in human somatic cells. However, H1 studies have been limited by the lack of specific ChIP-grade antibodies. Here, we have mapped six endogenous ...
Tello Velasco, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)
[eng] For this purpose, Spatial Analysis of Functional Enrichment (SAFE) framework was proposed to uncover functional regions in a network by embedding it in 2-dimensions (2D) using the Spring embedding ...
Garcia Porta, Joan (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is understanding the main drivers that underlie morphological and species diversity. Ecological opportunity—access to new or previously inaccessible niches—has ...
Górka, Katarzyna (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Sexual division of labour involving the use of teeth in non-masticatory activities in the Tigara population form Point Hope did not affect the wear of the upper and lower first molars and, therefore, ...
Canepa Oneto, Antonio Jesús (Date of defense: 2014-10-03)
During recent years, jellyfish blooms have become in a passionate issue among marine scientists with a series of studies and reviews. The main concern about this blooms are related with ecosystem and ...
Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...