Departament de Biologia

La Universitat de Girona té més de 15.000 estudiants i 1.400 professors. Ofereix uns 50 estudis de grau i més de 20 màsters. S’organitza en 9 centres docents, 1 Escola de Doctorat, 6 centres adscrits. L’activitat de recerca es du a terme en 24 departaments, 12 instituts de recerca i més de 40 càtedres, a més d’un centenar de grups de recerca especialitzat. Té la seu a la ciutat de Girona i s’integra en el sistema d’universitats públiques catalanes.

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Recent Submissions

New tumour markers for pancreatic cancer based on the altered glycosylation of serum glycoproteins 

Duran Sidera, Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-11-14)

Pancreatic cancer (PaC) is the deadliest of all tumours, with a 5-year survival below 12% and a mortality/incidence ratio of 94.5%. One of the main reasons behind this dismal prognosis is the diagnosis of the disease at ...

Relevance of sperm chromatin protamination, condensation and DNA integrity for sperm function and fertility: the role of toroid linker regions 

Viñolas Vergés, Estel (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)

Male fertilising capacity has traditionally been predicted by the assessment of sperm concentration, motility and morphology. During the last few decades, however, research has been particularly focused on the analysis of ...

Relació de la proteïna C-reactiva, el quocient neutròfils/limfòcits i l’adiponectina d’alt pes molecular amb paràmetres d’obesitat i de risc cardiometabòlic en nens prepuberals sans. Efecte modulador dels estils de vida 

Díaz Roldán, Ferran (Date of defense: 2023-07-03)

Childhood obesity is one of the most important public health problems and is associated with cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR). Low-grade inflammation plays a prominent role in the development of cardiometabolic alterations ...

L’extracte de fulla d’olivera redueix la pressió arterial de pacients amb hipertensió arterial lleugera sense malaltia vascular subclínica 

Espín Sánchez, Rufina (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)

Introduction: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular risk factor and affects 20 to 50% of the population. Treatment, with drugs or not, involves improving lifestyle. Olive leaf extract has traditionally been taken to ...

Variability in the health status and reproductive traits of European sardine stocks in the Mediterranean. Implications for fishery management 

Caballero-Huertas, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

Small pelagic fish play an important ecological role mainly due to their contribution in transferring energy from low to higher trophic levels. Likewise, the capture of these species is in many cases an important nutritional ...

Molecular insights into mammalian sperm physiology: a comparative study of glutathione S-transferases in male reproduction 

Llavanera Bruguera, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

Male infertility is a global health problem affecting one in four infertile couples. This also has a negative repercussion on the animal breeding industry, where infertility has a detrimental impact on their balance sheets. ...

Novel insights into paternal factors influencing the maternal environment and embryo development 

Mateo Otero, Yentel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)

For many years, reproductive outcomes were considered as being solely determined by the genome of oocytes and sperm. Yet, in the last decades, many other female and male factors have also been found to be relevant. Focusing ...

Nova metodologia d’anàlisi de distribucions de dosi per algorismes de càlcul de dosi absorbida en radioteràpia externa que simulen el transport de radiació en medi 

Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)

Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all media as water of ...

Dehiscencia de anastomosis en la cirugía del cáncer de recto: incidencia, factores pronósticos y morbimortalidad asociada 

Farrés Coll, Ramon (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)

Introduction: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most feared complication in the postoperative period for patients with rectal cancer. Objectives: To determine the real rate of AL in patients operated on for rectal cancer. ...

Factors pronòstics en la dehiscència anastomòtica de la cirurgia del càncer de còlon. Models de predicció actuals i validació externa independent 

Pigem Rodeja, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-03)

INTRODUCTION: Anastomotic leak (AL) is the most dreadful and life-threatening complication in colon cancer (CC) surgery. It is associated to an increase of morbimortality, longer hospital stay, increased healthcare costs ...

Molecular insights on arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: assessment of premature termination codons in desmosomal genes and variants reclassification 

Vallverdú Prats, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an entity that groups different clinical forms of hereditable cardiac diseases that are associated to ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The main cases are characterized ...

Inhibition of sialyltransferases in pancreatic cancer: effects on the EGFR pathway and on the tumour phenotype 

Miró Domènech, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) presents a dismal prognosis mainly due to its delayed diagnosis, its aggressiveness, and resistance to existing therapies. Aberrant glycosylation and, in particular, the overexpression ...

Caracterización de polimorfismos genéticos implicados con el metabolismo de la citarabina y asociación con la respuesta y toxicidad a la quimioterapia en pacientes con leucemia mieloide aguda de riesgo intermedio 

Díaz Santa, Johana Alejandra (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is adults' most common acute leukemia. Prognostic factors influencing treatment response and patient survival are diverse, the most relevant being those associated with specific cytogenetic and ...

Estudio del impacto de UGT2B17 y PD-1 en el trasplante alogénico de progenitores hematopoyéticos a partir de donante emparentado HLA idéntico 

Santos Carvajal, Nazly (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

Study of the impact of UGT2B17 and PD-1 on allogeneic transplantation of hematopoietic progenitors (allo-TPH) from HLA-identical related donor. everal genetic factors can favor the development of graft-versus-host disease ...

Estudi de la reacció de trans-splicing i caracterització fisicoquímica de la inteïna partida Neq DNA polimerasa B de l'hipertermòfil N. equitans 

Gordo Hernández, Verónica (Date of defense: 2021-06-23)

Protein splicing is an autocatalytic process with different stages that involves the elimination of an internal sequence, called intein, from the precursor polypeptide chain and the formation of a peptide bond between ...

Estructura poblacional y conectividad genética de la gamba roja, Aristeus antennatus, en el Mar Mediterráneo noroccidental 

Agulló Chazarra, Melania (Date of defense: 2022-11-16)

The conservation of a commercially exploited species is fundamental to ensure the long-term sustainability of the resource. Thus, genetic information is essential for the identification of reproductively isolated and ...

Biomarcadors diagnòstics de disfunció miocàrdica associada a xoc sèptic: avaluació de la troponina T ultrasensible i de la hiperosmolalitat plasmàtica 

Murcia Gubianas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)

La resposta inflamatòria d’un hoste pot ser excessiva o desregulada en relació a la intensitat o la durada d’una agressió. Quan aquesta resposta és secundària a una infecció es coneix com a sèpsia i pot acabar lesionant ...

Physiological role of mitochondrial and plasma membrane channels in sperm 

Delgado Bermúdez, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)

The spermatozoon is a highly specialised cell that travels along the female reproductive tract to deliver its genetic information into the oocyte. During this journey, the interaction with the varying environment is crucial ...

Study of the anticancer activity of a nuclear directed HP-RNase variant and different metal-based compounds 

Bravo Bonilla, Marlon Rolando (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)

Cancer is the leading cause of death due to non-communicable diseases worldwide. Despite the advances in the development of new antitumor drugs, there are still problems such as the resistance that tumor cells acquire ...

Algoritme diagnòstic en el laboratori. Impacte dels nous índex hematimètrics 

Marull Arnall, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-06-21)

Currently, automatic analyzers based on highly accurate methods can determine hematologic parameters in a fast and reliable way which is important to detect abnormalities in blood cells. In laboratories with a high care ...

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