Espart Herrero, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-09-16)
Metallothioneins (MTs) are a superfamily of ubiquitous and small cysteine rich metalloproteins present in all eukaryotes and some prokaryotes organisms, that exhibit preferences to coordinate divalent ...
Tamirlsa, Srlvldya (Date of defense: 2014-07-14)
La ciencia básica ha de engarzarse con las necesidades sociales. Así, nuestro laboratorio esta involucrado en identificar genes específicamente modulados durante el proceso de cicatrización mediante ...
Rivera Brugués, Núria (Date of defense: 2012-03-20)
Genomic microarray analysis is rapidly replacing conventional chromosome analysis by molecular karyotyping due to the significant increase in the power to detect causative CNVs. Here, we extensively ...
Barrio Guerrero, Lara (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
The integration of nutrient status to metabolic homeostasis at the cellular and organismal level is a complex process performed in multicellular organisms, and the ability of an organism to respond to ...
Torruella i Cortés, Guifré (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
To understand the origin of opisthokonts or infer evolutionary transitions within the group that contains two multicellular lineages (animals and fungi), it is first fundamental to understand the ...
Plans Calafell, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2005-05-26)
La ubiquitinació és una modificació postraduccional de proteïnes empleada en la regulació de molts tipus diferents de senyalitzacions cel·lulars i processos biològics. Els enzims responsables d'aquesta ...
Vargas Parra, Gardenía María (Date of defense: 2016-02-19)
BACKGROUND: MMR deficiency is a hallmark of tumors from Lynch syndrome LS) patients, who harbor germline mutations in MMR genes. No germline alterations are detected in a significant proportion of ...
García Rodríguez, Francisco J. (Date of defense: 2016-04-20)
In the last three decades, cisplatin has been one of the most widely prescribed drugs being an effective treatment for many cancer types. Despite its effectiveness, many patients are intrinsically ...
Vilarrasa Blasi, Josep (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)
The present PhD thesis work reports the molecular and genetic dissection for the role of plant steroid hormones Brassinosteroids (BRs) in root growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis). ...
Guio Leiman, Laín (Date of defense: 2016-03-17)
Elucidating the fitness effects of natural genetic variants is one of the current major challenges in evolutionary biology. Understanding the interplay between genotype, phenotype and environment is ...