Morcillo Suárez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
New approaches are needed to manage and analyze the enormous quantity of biological data generated by modern technologies. Existing solutions are often fragmented and uncoordinated and, thus, they require ...
Roca-Umbert Würth, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-12-22)
Zinc is an essential micronutrient involved in many different biological processes. Zinc homeostasis is mainly regulated by 24 zinc transporters coded by the Zinc Transporter Genes (ZTGs). Notably, zinc ...
López Carral, Héctor (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Emotions are a fundamental part of human life. They play a critical role in how we think, behave, and implicitly understand each other. However, although computing devices are increasingly consequential ...
Gignac, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The short-term effects of air pollution on brain health have come under investigation only recently. Since environmental health studies are often developed entirely by scientists, citizen science is a ...
Martínez García, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
I joined the lab of Dra. Pura Muñoz to study the capacity of self-repair of skeletal muscle after an acute injury. During this process many different cell types interact to coordinate and regulate muscle ...
Maras, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-09-03)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on ...
Posavec, Melanija (Date of defense: 2014-06-17)
MacroH2A1.1 is one of the least understood histone variants and structural components of chromatin. Generated by alternative splicing, macroH2A1.1 differs from the other macroH2A1 isoform in its ...
Popota, Foteini D. (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Positron emission tomography (PET) has been well established the last years as a powerfull tool in research and clinical applications. Advances in technology have enabled the use of small animal PET ...
Torrents Barrena, Jordina (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
This thesis focuses on the development of deep learning-based image processing techniques for the detection and segmentation of fetal structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3D ultrasound ...
Mercadal Cavaller, Borja (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
This thesis aimed at addressing questions within the fields of electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation and, in particular, those that arise from the interaction between the two phenomenona. On ...