Villegas Mirón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
The evolutionary history of the human genome has been shaped by the selection of multiple elements in response to different environmental pressures. The analysis of regulatory adaptations and the ...
Serra Bardenys, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
Oxidation of histone H3 (H3K4ox) by lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) is important in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells to generate compacted heterochromatin regions. However, the molecular mechanisms ...
Tejero Cicuéndez, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Biodiversity patterns result from the interplay of evolutionary, ecological, and environmental processes. Investigating the drivers of such patterns is central to evolutionary biology, and it is further ...
Crespo Bojorque, Paola (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
La consonancia es una de las características más salientes de la música. A pesar de su papel fundamental en la música occidental, sus orígenes siguen siendo controversiales. Por lo tanto, la comprensión ...
Millán Ariño, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)
Seven linker histone H1 variants exist in human somatic cells with distinct prevalence among cell types and during differentiation. Despite being key chromatin structural components, it remains elusive ...
Mariotti, Marco (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Selenoproteins are a diverse class of proteins containing selenocysteine, the 21st aminoacid. Selenocysteine is inserted co-translationally, recoding very specific UGA codons through a dedicated ...
Vives, Marc-Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Foreign language processing is hard, sometimes the right words do not come out, sometimes phonemes are incompressible. Words also lose their emotional appeal in a foreign language. How does this affect ...
Segura Puimedon, Maria (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the common deletion of 26-28 contiguous genes in the 7q11.23 region, which poses difficulties to the establishment of ...
Timón Pérez, Krystal (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
During mitosis, the microtubules organize a bipolar spindle that segregates the chromosomes. In higher eukaryotes, these microtubules are nucleated through three different pathways involving the centrosomes ...
Carrignon, Simon (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
In this thesis, we have quantified the influence of content-dependent biases in social learning strategies. Our theoretical framework combines agent-based models and Bayesian inference to measure ...