Meer, Margarita V. (Date of defense: 2015-12-09)
Fitness landscape is a concept, which describes the dependence of phenotype on genotype. It was proposed almost a hundred years ago but only recent burst of technologies finally allowed exploring it. ...
Povolotskaya, Inna (Date of defense: 2015-02-16)
Se ha predicho teóreticamente que la epistasis, es decir, las interacciones genéticas entre diferentes mutaciones, cumple un rol sustancial en procesos evolutivos, tales como la emergencia de la ...
Bello, Carla (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
La identificación de elementos funcionales en el genoma no-codificante continúa siendo una tarea desafiante. La genómica comparativa puede ayudarnos a entender como estos elementos han evolucionado y ...
Söylemez, Onuralp (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
The role of epistasis – inter-dependent contributions of alleles to fitness – in shaping genetic variation within and between populations is an important question in evolutionary biology with significant ...