Llorente Lope, Carolina (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
The main objective of this thesis is to improve understanding of citizen participation in science in Spain. Specifically, it analyses the characteristics of current participatory practices and the ...
Lioutas, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
Aurora A (AurA) is an important mitotic kinase mainly studied for its involvement in cell cycle progression, centrosome maturation, mitotic spindle pole organization and bipolar spindle formation. ...
Khandelwal, Avinash (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)
Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, ...
Fornés Crespo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
Protein-DNA interactions are indispensable players in the daily activities of cells. DNA-binding proteins regulate gene expression and are responsible of DNA replication, packaging, repair and recombination. ...
Sancho Medina, Mònica (Date of defense: 2008-05-30)
At least eleven histone H1 variants exist in mammalian somatic cells that bind to the linker DNA and stabilize the nucleosome particle contributing to higher order chromatin compaction. In addition of ...
Perarnaud, Clément (Date of defense: 2021-07-29)
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators ...
Mas Martín, Glòria (Date of defense: 2007-07-20)
En la levadura S. cerevisiae, un incremento de la osmolaridad extracelular activa la vía de Hog1, lo que produce una compleja respuesta adaptativa. Entre las respuestas adaptativas que Hog1 coordina, ...
Çavusoglu, Kader (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
This project was carried out in the Cell Signaling Research Group headed by Dr. Carme Caelles at IRB Barcelona. As a part of the research-line that deals with physiological and pharmacological ...
Grippa, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2015-06-12)
Most cells store energy in lipid droplets (LDs), specialized storage organelles composed of a neutral lipid core that, during their biogenesis, is packaged into a single phospholipid monolayer decorated ...
Barbaglia, María Gabriela (Date of defense: 2014-11-24)
The general aim of this Doctoral Thesis was to assess the association of common mental disorders with disability and socioeconomic factors. These factors were considered both as important consequences ...