Spatiotemporal mechanisms for actomyosin ring assembly and contraction in budding yeast cell division

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Molecular Medicine

Peptidoglycan assembly machines: The Staphylococcus aureus Penicillin-Binding Proteins

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology

Studies of the assembly of the Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology.

Assembly and function of a protein cross-linking enzyme during bacterial spore morphogenesis

Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis culminates with the formation of a dormant endospore. The endospore (or spore) is one of the most resilient cell types known and can remain viable in the environment for extended periods of time. Contributing to the spore’s resistance and its ability to interact with and monitor its immediate environment is the coat, the outermost layer of B. subtilis spores. The coat is composed by over 70 different proteins, which are produced at different stages in sporulation and orderly assembled around the developing spore.(...)