Espart Herrero, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-09-16)
Metallothioneins (MTs) are a superfamily of ubiquitous and small cysteine rich metalloproteins present in all eukaryotes and some prokaryotes organisms, that exhibit preferences to coordinate divalent ...
Popa, Crina Mihaela (Date of defense: 2015-10-16)
The soil-borne plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causing agent of bacterial wilt, a devastating disease of wide geographical distribution and host range with enormous economic impact worldwide. ...
Gomez Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of more than 50 different genetic disorders due to the lack of degradation of substrates within lysosomes. Most of them are caused by mutations in genes ...
Gutiérrez Vallejo, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Development of the posterior spinal cord involves secondary neurulation, a process poorly understood in which neural tube is formed by cavitation of the tail bud. Comprehension of secondary neurulation ...
Canals Montferrer, Isaac (Date of defense: 2015-01-23)
Sanfilippo C syndrome is a lysosomal storage disorder that presents an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern and is caused by mutations in the HGSNAT gene, identified in 2006 in the chromosome 8. This ...
Calvo Lozano, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
Discovering the master genes necessary to build the eye in an invertebrate model such as S. mediterranea could help us to understand numerous retinopathies and age-related degeneration of the human eye. ...
Carrió Gaspar, Elvira (Date of defense: 2015-03-19)
Myogenesis is the differentiation process which encompasses the formation of skeletal muscle during development, regeneration and tissue homeostasis throughout life. Arising from embryonic or adult stem ...
Hernández Vega, Amayra Noemi (Date of defense: 2015-10-05)
Epithelial layers constitute the skeleton of early embryos and most tissues and organs and their remodelling during development is essential for reshaping the embryo and for tissue architecture. ...