Studies on transcriptional regulation in the human retina [Elektronische Ressource] : mapping of transcriptional start sites of retinal expressed genes and functional characterization of the CNGA3 promoter / vorgelegt von Ronald Erick Carpio Farro

Studies on Transcriptional Regulation in the Human Retina: Mapping of Transcriptional Start Sites of Retinal Expressed Genes and Functional Characterization of the CNGA3 promoter Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften der Fakultät für Biologie und der Medizinischen Fakultät der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen vorgelegt von Ronald Erick Carpio Farro aus Callao September-2009 Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: Dekan der Fakultät für Biologie: Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Mallot Dekan der Medizinischen Fakultät: Prof. Dr. Ingo B. Autenrieth 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Bernd Wissinger 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Olaf Rieß Prüfungskommission: Prof. Dr. Bernd Wissinger Prof. Dr. Eberhart Zrenner Prof. Dr. Frank Schaeffel Prof. Dr. Thomas Gasser Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Blin 1 “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.” Marie Curie 2 to my family 3 GENERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It takes a long time to write a PhD thesis, though not as long as it takes to do the experiments for it, surprisingly.