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 ...
Ricolo, Delia (Date of defense: 2017-05-19)
The embryonic tracheal system of Drosophila melanogaster consists of a network of interconnected epithelial tubes of different size and architecture characterized by different cellular mechanisms of ...
Tamirlsa, Srlvldya (Date of defense: 2014-07-14)
La ciencia básica ha de engarzarse con las necesidades sociales. Así, nuestro laboratorio esta involucrado en identificar genes específicamente modulados durante el proceso de cicatrización mediante ...
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 ...
Guio Leiman, Laín (Date of defense: 2016-03-17)
Elucidating the fitness effects of natural genetic variants is one of the current major challenges in evolutionary biology. Understanding the interplay between genotype, phenotype and environment is ...
Ullastres i Coll, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
A major challenge of modern Biology is elucidating the genetic basis of adaptation. While there are many SNP-based studies trying to elucidate the genetic basis of genotype-phenotype relationships, the ...
Okenve Ramos, Pilar Moyong (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
How a chemoattractant can act on a tissue to induce its migration towards that source? I have tried to answer this question in this research using as migratory tissue model the Drosophila respiratory ...
Ozturk Colak, Arzu (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
Examples of tubular organ systems like the mammalian lungs and vascular system abound in the animal kingdom. In this study we used the Drosophila melanogaster tracheal system to study tubular organ ...
Martorell Aleman, Òscar (Date of defense: 2014-03-25)
During last decades many researchers have tried to elucidate the different causes of tumour initiation and progression. For this purpose, multiple animal models have been developed to understand the ...
Mangione, Federica (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
Within multicellular organism, mature tissues and organs reach high degrees of order in the arrangement of their constituent cells. During morphogenesis the emergence of long-range order is subjected ...