Carreté Muñoz, Laia (Date of defense: 2018-01-23)
Infections caused by pathogenic fungi are becoming an increasingly serious threat for human health. Pathogenic fungi such as Candida glabrata or Candida albicans, belong to phylogenetically distinct ...
Toll i Riera, Macarena (Date of defense: 2012-03-28)
Actualment, degut a la disponibilitat d’un gran nombre de genomes seqüenciats, el camp de la genòmica comparativa està experimentant grans avenços. Ara són possibles una àmplia gama d’estudis que fins ...
Santesmasses Ruiz, Didac (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)
La selenocïsteina és coneguda com a l'aminoàcid 21. Les selenoproteïnes incorporen selenocïsteina en resposta a codons UGA específics mitjançant un mecanisme de recodificació, el qual és present en els ...
Simó Riudalbas , Marc (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
Until relatively recently, many groups of terrestrial reptiles were considered to contain only few species vastly distributed across the Arabian Peninsula. This was mostly the result of the apparent ...
Ruiz Orera, Jorge (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)
Aquesta tesi investiga els mecanismes de formació i evolució de gens de novo utilitzant seqüenciació massiva de transcrits complerts i de fragments protegits per ribosomes. Hem identificat milers de ...
López Escardó, David (Date of defense: 2018-01-15)
Opisthokonta is an eukaryotic supergroup that contains Metazoa, Fungi and their unicellular relatives. Therefore, this group provides an ideal framework to study distinct unicellular-multicellular ...
Han, Sojung (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
Bonobos are an interesting species to study due to their unique evolutionary features such as a peaceful social nature and hypersexual behavior. The prolonged exaggerated sexual swelling in females ...
Farré Ramon, Xavier (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
Ageing is a very complex phenotype that has been widely studied, but is still largely unknown. Most of the studies focus on a single species, or on performing genome wide association studies in human ...
Sodaei, Reza (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
How do genomes generate different tissues, behaviours, individuals or species? We try to identify parts of the human transcriptome that we found only in a tissue. Then, we focus on inter-individual ...
Prado Martínez, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-12-22)
Els grans simis són els nostres parents evolutius més propers i com a tals són la millor eina per entendre els nostres orígens més recents. Mitjançant la genòmica comparativa ara podem estudiar en ...