Dissertations Dissertation: Lara Garcia Merino

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Campus Flemingsberg Gene in Neo, Blickagången 16

Welcome to Lara Garcia Merino's dissertation with the title "Cell-type-specific dynamics of somatic mutation accumulation in age-related vascular and skeletal muscle dysfunction".

Doctoral student

Lara Garcia Merino, Integrative Cardiovascular, Cancer and Ageing Research Unit (ICCA), Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), Karolinska Institutet (KI).

Title of thesis

Cell-type-specific dynamics of somatic mutation accumulation in age-related vascular and skeletal muscle dysfunction

Main supervisor

Maria Eriksson, Professor, ICCA, MedH, KI.

Co-supervisors

Christer Betsholtz, Professor, ICCA, MedH, KI.

Gwladys Revêchon, PhD, ICCA, MedH, KI.

Opponent

Sangita Choudhury, PhD, Assistant professor, Gail Bruns Endowed Investigator, Harvard Medical School, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital.

Examination board

Francisca Lottersberg, Associate Professor, Division of Molecular Medicine and Virology
Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University.

Randall Johnson, Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, KI.

Rongrong Fan, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Unit, MedH, KI.