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 ...
Bosch Colom, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-12-03)
This doctoral thesis describes the evaluation of analytical methodologies to detect human growth hormone (hGH) abuse in sport. Two main strategies are studied and compared. The first (direct method) ...
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 ...
Sánchez Larsen, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
La ínsula es una región cerebral que participa en la regulación del sistema nervioso autonómico, pero su papel en el control cardiovascular central no está bien definido en la actualidad. Realizamos un ...
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 ...