Gholami, Behjat (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Osteoporosis is a general skeletal disorder. It is characterized by a low bone mass and a microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, which increase bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. ...
Castillo Andreo, David (Date of defense: 2023-03-01)
[eng] Microscopy and Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) are the two main techniques for studying the three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome. Microscopy, allowing the visualization of genomic ...
Planas Marqués, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of the devastating disease known as bacterial wilt. This disease affects more than 200 plant species in over 50 families, including economically ...
Escuer Pifarré, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] During the last decade, advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have increased exponentially the generation of genomic data, especially of non-model species. In this thesis, we ...
Pedro Jové, Roger de (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
[eng] Losses to plant pathogens pose a major threat to global agriculture and food security worldwide. In the context of globalisation and climate change, the emergence and dispersion of pathogens ...
Herrera Úbeda, Carlos (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
In this thesis we have covered the importance of finding underlying conservation events to better understand the regulatory mechanisms of important development orchestrators like the Hox cluster. As an ...
Ferrer Obiol, Joan (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
How populations differentiate and become new species is a foundational question to the field of evolutionary biology and has important implications for the generation of both local and global patterns ...
Aguirre Gómez, Josu (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)
The translation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies from the research field to the clinical setting and, specifically, the results obtained in terms of diagnostic yield remain far from ...
Barbanti, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
Conservation actions aim to preserve and recover animal and plant species using in-situ or ex- situ strategies. The first, aims to protect and sustain populations in their natural habitat, the second ...
Camilleri Robles, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are defined as transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides that lack protein-coding potential. Although multiple examples of functional lncRNAs have been described, particularly ...