In 2019, more than 20 doctoral students have defended their theses, thus concluding this stage of their training at IRB Barcelona. This marks a very important milestone in their pathways to becoming the scientists of tomorrow.
23 PhD theses defended.
December 18, 2019
· Speaker: Lidia Mateo, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: A computational toolkit to boost precision oncology with pharmacogenomics
· Language: English
December 18, 2019
· Speaker: Luis Daniel Toribio, Biotechnology
· Thesis Title: Structural characterization of Signal Transduction proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Vibrio cholerae
· Language: English
December 16, 2019
· Speaker: Diana Buitrago, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Understanding the link between chromatin structure, chromosome conformation and gene regulation
· Language: English
December 13, 2019
· Speaker: Ricardo Viais, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: The role of microtubule nucleation during neural development
· Language: English
December 12, 2019
· Speaker: Laura González, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Role of the atypical CDK activator RINGO beyond meiosis
· Language: English
December 3, 2019
· Speaker: Gerard Martínez, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Identification of novel histone marks required for the transcriptional stress response
· Language: English
November 5, 2019
· Speaker: Tiago Lopes, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Into the structure of human full-lenght Smads and the impact of cancer mutations
· Language: English
October 30, 2019
· Speaker: Celia Santos, Genetics
· Thesis Title: Understanding Chromosomal Instability-induced Senescence
· Language: English
October 28, 2019
· Speaker: Lada Murcia, Genetics
· Thesis Title: Selective killing of RAS-malignant tissues by exploiting oncogene-induced DNA damage
· Language: English
October 21, 2019
· Speaker: Alba Sabaté, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Regulation of brown adipose tissue metabolism by TP53INP2
· Language: English
October 4, 2019
· Speaker: Jurgen Walther, Physics
· Thesis Title: Revealing DNA dynamics from atomistic to genomic level by multiscale computational approaches
· Language: English
September 18, 2019
· Speaker: Ignacio Castrillon, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Papel de DOR/TP53INP2 como activador del complejo FOSFATIDILINOSITOL 3-QUINASA de clase III en autofagia
· Language: Spanish
July 26, 2019
· Speaker: Sara Cano, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: CD98hc ochestrates amino acid and glucose availability, redox homeostasis and energetic and nucleotide metabolism
· Language: English
July 19, 2019
· Speaker: Craig Donoghue, Organic Chemistry
· Thesis Title: Syntheses of Protein Degraders and Compounds for Targeted Drug Release
· Language: English
June 20, 2019
· Speaker: Eduard Puig, Organic Chemistry
· Thesis Title: Structural characterization of amyloid betta oligomers with functional links associated to Alzheimer's disease
· Language: English
June 17, 2019
· Speaker: Artur Ezquerra, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Decipheryng the role of the yTuRC subunit MZT2/GCP8
· Language: English
June 14, 2019
· Speaker: Cristina Fuster, Organic Chemistry
· Thesis Title: Understanding the transport mechanism of BBB peptide shuttles: THRre and MiniAp-4 as case studies
· Language: English
May 31, 2019
· Speaker: Paula Climent, Genetics
· Thesis Title: Estudio funcional de la variante embrionaria de la histona H1 de Drosophila
· Language: Spanish
April 25, 2019
· Speaker: Gemma Turon, Genetics
· Thesis Title: A genome editing based approach to study tumor cell heterogeneity
· Language: English
April 30, 2019
· Speaker: Ánxela Louzao, Genetics
· Thesis Title: Investigating the role of testis-mitochondrial genes in Drosophila lethal (3) malignant brain tumor
· Language: English
April 10, 2019
· Speaker: Marion Salzer, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Hallmarks of Dermal Fibrolast Aging
· Language: English
February 28, 2019
· Speaker: Gianmarco di Mauro, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Functional analysis of the extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor Dsk2/UBQLN in Drosophila and human cells
· Language: English
February , 2019
· Speaker: Albert Antolin Fontes, Biomedicine
· Thesis Title: Mitochondrial and cell cycle functions of slimp
· Language: English