Almeida Ferreira, Ana Patricia de (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
The final size of a developing organ has to be finely modulated in order to give rise to fully functional organs and organisms. Final size is regulated by the nutritional status of the feeding animal ...
Recasens Álvarez, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
During my thesis I studied the developmental roles of the JAK/STAT pathway in the wing imaginal disc and we show that it controls organ size and fate specification by regulating morphogen production and ...
Barrio Guerrero, Lara (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
The integration of nutrient status to metabolic homeostasis at the cellular and organismal level is a complex process performed in multicellular organisms, and the ability of an organism to respond to ...