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 ...
Rivera Brugués, Núria (Date of defense: 2012-03-20)
Genomic microarray analysis is rapidly replacing conventional chromosome analysis by molecular karyotyping due to the significant increase in the power to detect causative CNVs. Here, we extensively ...
Torruella i Cortés, Guifré (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
To understand the origin of opisthokonts or infer evolutionary transitions within the group that contains two multicellular lineages (animals and fungi), it is first fundamental to understand the ...
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 ...
Sebé Pedrós, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition and a poorly understood one. In recent years, the sequencing of the genomes of several earlybranching metazoans, such as sponges ...
Lafzi, Atefeh (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized the way molecular mechanisms were being studied by allowing the dissection of gene expression at single-cell resolution. The data acquired from scRNA-seq ...
Lagarde, Julien (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
The human genome contains an astonishingly large fraction of noncoding DNA, which is pervasively transcribed into thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) -- long transcripts with no discernible ...
Escoda Assens, Lídia (Date of defense: 2018-05-11)
Knowledge of the genealogical relationships among individuals of a population and their dispersal patterns are essential to many studies of endangered species, especially those with small and fragmented ...