Suárez Ara, Patricia (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)
The origin of animals has puzzled scientists for centuries. The transition from a unicellular eukaryote to animals is undoubtedly one of the biggest evolutionary transitions in Earth’s history. To unravel ...
Cabús, Lluc (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)
RNA is a molecule that is released by the different tissues into the circulation. When it is found in the circulation it is called cell-free RNA (cfRNA). This type of molecule has great potential as ...
San José Plana, Adrià (Date of defense: 2024-04-16)
The primary goal of this PhD is to deepen our understanding and improve the modeling capacity of zoonotic spillover, the multilevel process by which pathogens manage to overcome a series of natural ...
García-Castro, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2024-03-11)
Bilingual infants acquire words at a similar rate as monolingual ones, despite navigating a more intricate linguistic environment. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain elusive. Our project ...
Khomenko, Sasha (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)
The rapid increase in urbanization underscores the need for healthy urban environments. Presently, European cities experience high levels of air pollution, noise, lack of green spaces, and increased ...
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 ...
Martín de Dios, Laura (Date of defense: 2024-05-06)
La organización del genoma en células mamíferas sigue siendo en gran parte desconocida. Un nivel fundamental de organización se considera el bucle de cromatina, que consiste en una región de ADN atrapada ...
Turuban, Maxime (Date of defense: 2024-05-15)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) exposure, ubiquitous in our environment due to the rise in mobile phones and wireless technology, has grown significantly in the last 30 years. This exposure ...
Alonso, Florencia Evelin (Date of defense: 2024-06-04)
Currently, there are no antiviral strategies to rapidly respond to novel emerging viruses or to mosquito borne viruses. On this thesis we have developed an innovative artificial circular RNA (circRNA) ...