Planas Fèlix, Mercè (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)
The identification and analysis of genomic variation across individuals has been central in biology, first through comparative genomics to answer evolutionary questions, and then in the context of ...
Rodríguez Vaello, Victoria Eugenia (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
A fundamental step in embryo development is the transition through pluripotency. There are two known sequential states of pluripotency termed naïve and primed pluripotency. Considerable efforts have ...
Català Moll, Francisco (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
Epigenetic factors, such as histone post-translational modifications and DNA methylation, are critical determinants of gene expression, which ultimately defines cell identity and function. Despite intense ...
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 ...