López Escardó, David (Date of defense: 2018-01-15)
Opisthokonta is an eukaryotic supergroup that contains Metazoa, Fungi and their unicellular relatives. Therefore, this group provides an ideal framework to study distinct unicellular-multicellular ...
Han, Sojung (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
Bonobos are an interesting species to study due to their unique evolutionary features such as a peaceful social nature and hypersexual behavior. The prolonged exaggerated sexual swelling in females ...
Prado Martínez, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-12-22)
Els grans simis són els nostres parents evolutius més propers i com a tals són la millor eina per entendre els nostres orígens més recents. Mitjançant la genòmica comparativa ara podem estudiar en ...
Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...
Elek, Anamaria (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)
Single-cell genomics methods have revolutionized the study of gene expression and regulation at the cell type level. Generating single-cell atlases for species at key phylogenetic positions of the animal ...