Guardiola Ripoll, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
[eng] Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting around 24 million people worldwide. While we begin to disentangle the biological actors implicated in the origin of the disorder, the precise ...
Pascual Alonso, Ainhoa (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)
[eng] MECP2 is a multifunctional gene involved in multiple processes such as transcription regulation, chromatin remodelling, splicing and miRNA regulation. Malfunction of MECP2 due to loss of function ...
Magallón Lorenz, Miriam (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
[eng] Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are rare soft-tissues sarcomas of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) with poor prognosis and lack of therapeutic options. Complete resection with ...
Rojas Salarich, Itziar de (Date of defense: 2023-07-05)
[eng] Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. Research in the past decade has led to major progress in understanding the genetic etiology of the disease; since I started my ...
Bujosa Rodriguez, Paula (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
[eng] Linker histones are essential proteins involved in higher-order chromatin structures and architectural functions. However, their roles extend beyond structure, encompassing various chromatin ...
Amador Rios, Raziel (Date of defense: 2022-02-10)
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have proven biological roles in plethora cellular contexts. Nonetheless, only a handful have been clearly characterized, leaving thousands of newly discovered lncRNAs without ...
Merenciano, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
Understanding how organisms adapt to their environment remains an open question in Biology. So far, most projects focus on the study of single nucleotide polymorphism variants, while other types of ...
Domènech Andreu, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)
Unveiling the patterns and identifying the factors that drive community assembly are key questions in ecology and evolution, especially in the current state of climate change and biodiversity loss. ...
Castilla-Vallmanya, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a group of chronic diseases in which the development of the central nervous system is impaired, resulting in disability at the neuropsychiatric, motor and/or ...
Antón Galindo, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-09-17)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in social communication and interaction, as well as repetitive and restricted patterns of behaviour. Although ...