Iacobucci, Simona (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
Taking into consideration the current knowledge about the subjects treated, several goals were proposed for this PhD thesis in order to further understand PHF8 function in both astrocytes and neural ...
Rasti Zaghiyan, George (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
The Sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent enzymes plays a key role in the maintenance of genome integrity upon stress. Sirtuins coordinate the response to different forms of stress at different levels and ...
Planas Fèlix, Mercè (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)
The identification and analysis of genomic variation across individuals has been central in biology, first through comparative genomics to answer evolutionary questions, and then in the context of ...
Rodríguez Vaello, Victoria Eugenia (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
A fundamental step in embryo development is the transition through pluripotency. There are two known sequential states of pluripotency termed naïve and primed pluripotency. Considerable efforts have ...
Català Moll, Francisco (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
Epigenetic factors, such as histone post-translational modifications and DNA methylation, are critical determinants of gene expression, which ultimately defines cell identity and function. Despite intense ...
Norris, Richard (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
Insulinomas are extremely rare pancreatic neuroendocrine (PNET) tumours that develop from the β-cells of the pancreas.β-cells are the only cells capable of producing the hormine insulin, and play a major ...
Bonilla-Pons, Sergi A. (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)
Visual impairments and different retinopathies have been silently increasing in the modern society and they become a medical hurdle in need to be addressed. Müller glial cells (MGCs), in lower vertebrates, ...
Rodriguez Fos, Elias (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This thesis illustrates the work I have developed as a Ph.D. student in the computational genomics group lead by Dr. David Torrents at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The group’s expertise in the ...
Schikora Tamarit, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
[eng] Fungal infections pose a serious health threat, affecting >1,000 million people and causing ~1.5 million deaths each year. The problem is growing due to insufficient diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, ...