Rojo Laguna, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Some animals have incredible regenerative abilities which kept researchers fascinating during decades. How these animals are able to regenerate missing parts and restore damaged tissues can give researchers ...
Castillo Andreo, David (Date of defense: 2023-03-01)
[eng] Microscopy and Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) are the two main techniques for studying the three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome. Microscopy, allowing the visualization of genomic ...
García Vázquez, David (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
CHAPTER 1: Reconstructing ancient Mediterranean crossroads in Deronectes diving beetles Aim: To reconstruct the evolutionary history of a genus of freshwater beetle with a pan- Mediterranean distribution, ...
Pappa, Stella (Date of defense: 2019-04-10)
During neural development, signaling molecules and networks of expressed transcription factors cooperate to control cellular fate. Chromatin acting factors are essential players in cell proliferation ...
El Mouali Benomar, Youssef (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
The regulation of the expression of virulence genes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an intensively studied feature of Salmonella lifestyle. How Salmonella integrates environmental signals ...
Vu Cantero, Diem-Lan (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)
Novel human astrovirus (HAstV) are enteric virus belonging to the Astroviridae family and were discovered 10 years ago by high-throughput sequencing. They are divided in two different clades, the HAstV-MLB ...
Plazaola Sasieta, Haritz (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
The chloride channel ClCN2 is expressed in glia in the mature nervous system of vertebrates and some physiological functions have been proposed. In addition, human patients with mutations in the gene ...
Casas Lamesa, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Histone H1 is a key determinant of higher-order chromatin structures and for a long time it has been considered a main transcriptional repressor. So consistent with its biochemical properties, the absence ...
Badia Ramentol, Jordi (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second-highest cause for cancer-related mortality worldwide. Patients suffering from CRC generally don’t die from primary tumours but rather from metastasis, for which ...
Mola Caminal, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Cerebrovascular disease is the leading cause of disability in adults. Independent of clinical variables such as infarct size and location, stroke subtype, and vascular risk factors, individuals have ...