Solà Vàzquez, Eduard (Date of defense: 2014-07-15)
Dugesia is a genus of free-living flatworms which species inhabit freshwater bodies across a wide distribution range that includes Africa, Madagascar, Eurasia and Australasia. They do not survive in ...
Rotstein Bajo, Bárbara (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
A stereotyped tubular epithelial network forms many of our bodies’ organs and, defects in the formation of these tubules often leads to organ failure. My Thesis project aims to further understand the ...
Rabadán Lozano, M. Ángeles (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)
Numerous initiatives to improve our understanding of cancer biology have been lunched in different laboratories that aim to describe the interactome and gene-expression profile in different tumour cell ...
Vizán-Rico, Helena Isabel (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)
The molecular evolution of genes, joined to the differences between sexes, is a matter of interest poorly investigated across the class Insecta from a global perspective. The abundance of insect species, ...
Sentandreu Benavent, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
After germination in darkness, Arabidopsis seedlings follow a dark specific developmental pattern called skotomorphogenesis or etiolation, characterized because the plant develops long hypocotyls together ...
Aristizábal Corrales, David (Date of defense: 2012-06-13)
14-3-3 proteins have been extensively studied from yeast to mammals, and are associated with multiple roles ranging from fundamental processes such as cell cycle, apoptosis and stress response to diseases ...
Popa, Crina Mihaela (Date of defense: 2015-10-16)
The soil-borne plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causing agent of bacterial wilt, a devastating disease of wide geographical distribution and host range with enormous economic impact worldwide. ...
Gomez Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of more than 50 different genetic disorders due to the lack of degradation of substrates within lysosomes. Most of them are caused by mutations in genes ...
Álvarez Fernández, Carmen (Date of defense: 2013-04-26)
This thesis is based on a genomic study of the epithelial fusion and wound healing processes using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. The aimed of the work is to study the genomic differences ...
Sebé Pedrós, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition and a poorly understood one. In recent years, the sequencing of the genomes of several earlybranching metazoans, such as sponges ...