Ullrich, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2018-12-19)
Gene regulation orchestrates the development of different cell types and organs from the same genetic blueprint. While the basic mode of gene regulation is driven by transcription factors, there are a ...
Ylla Bou, Guillem (Date of defense: 2018-01-24)
The evolutionary success of insects was particularly shaped by the innovation of the metamorphosis, especially by the transition from hemimetaboly to holometaboly. The mechanisms underlying this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gallo López, Carolina (Date of defense: 2018-01-11)
Understanding how the growth rate is regulated in bacteria is an ongoing challenge in biology and its controlled regulation would have a great impact in the biotechnological industry. Growth rates may ...
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 ...
Serra Vidal, Gerard (Date of defense: 2018-12-05)
Àfrica és l'origen de totes les poblacions humanes actuals, i malgrat contenir els nivells més elevats de diversitat genètica, la seva història demogràfica ha estat relativament poc estudiada, amb moltes ...
Dobón Berenguer, Begoña (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
The evolution of the genome is driven, among other factors, by the composition of the genome, the functional output of the gene products, and by environmental pressures. Among the environmental factors, ...
Mas Sandoval, Àlex (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
Most of the Native American populations that lived in nowadays Eastern Brazil when the Europeans established in the area in the 16th century do not exist anymore. The colonization of Brazil implied huge ...
Domènech Salgado, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
To date, very little progress has been made towards elucidating the genetic causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In this project we have performed rare variant association study (RVAS) ...