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Martínez Høyer, Sergio (Date of defense: 2012-10-11)
The calcineurin-NFATc signaling pathway is involved in many aspects of the development and function of the immune, neural, skeletal, cardiovascular and muscular system of vertebrates. Regulators of Calcineurin (RCAN) ...
Santamaría Pérez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
Biological invasions have become one of the most pervasive threats to native ecosystems worldwide, causing species extinctions, disrupting the functioning of ecosystems, altering the provision of critical ecosystem services ...
Verdeny Vilanova, Ione (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)
Intracellular transport plays an essential role in a wide variety of fundamental cellular processes required to maintain the internal regulation and organization of cells. Different types of cargos such as organelles, ...
Patiño Padial, Tania (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
Els micromaterials i nanomaterials presenten unes propietats fisicoquímiques úniques i controlables, les quals han permès la creació d’eines innovadores per tal d’afrontar alguns dels reptes que presenten diferents branques ...
Moles Fernández, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
Patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) in whom a causative pathogenic variant is not identified after genetic analysis may not benefit from prevention, early detection, or precision treatment measures. ...
Rey Caballero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-04-27)
La presencia de biotipos de amapola (Papaver rhoeas L.) resistentes a herbicidas constituye uno de los principales problemas de muchas áreas cerealistas de secano. La solución del mismo pasa por una correcta caracterización ...
Cavazza, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
To ensure faithful segregation of the genetic material, during mitosis the cell assembles the mitotic spindle, a macromolecular machine made of dynamic microtubules and associated proteins. Spindle microtubules are assembled ...
Odena Juan, Carlota (Date of defense: 2023-10-17)
El níquel, degut a les seves propietats químiques inherents, ofereix patrons de reactivitat versàtils alhora que és abundant a la Terra i més assequible que altres metalls nobles com el pal·ladi o el ròdium. A més, la ...
Cordier, Guillaume (Date of defense: 2018-04-03)
This thesis first develops new methods for high-throughput and multi-color super-resolution microscopy (Chapters 2 and 3). Subsequently, I apply these methods to study the organization of motor proteins on the lysosome ...
Colomer Montañà, Carlota (Date of defense: 2017-12-21)
Numerous studies have shown that the protein kinase IKKα is associated with cancer progression and metastasis in different models. However, the mechanisms underlying IKKα tumorigenic functions are poorly understood. We ...
Navarro Herrero, Leia (Date of defense: 2024-04-15)
[eng] Seabirds and fisheries share the same fishing resources and grounds, resulting in their inevitable interaction, with significant conservation implications for the firsts. Seabirds scavenging on fishery waste modify ...
Carreras Colom, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)
L’impacte de la contaminació per plàstics, especialment en forma de microplàstics, ha copsat l’atenció dels mitjans durant les últimes dècades. La seva distribució generalitzada i la facilitat per interaccionar amb multitud ...
Sierra Noguera, Cèsar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
The presence of an extra copy of Human Chromosome 21 (HSA21) in Down syndrome (DS) is one of the most complex genetic perturbations compatible with life and is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Here, ...
Berman Quintana, Judit (Date of defense: 2015-11-14)
My research program focused on the elucidation of the mechanisms of carotenoid accumulation in maize (Zea mays). I amplified a putative carotenoid ε-hydroxylase, named CYP97C19, from the yellow maize variety B73. Metabolic ...
Bergamino Sirvén, Milana Arantza (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
[eng] 80% of breast cancer (BC) express positive estrogen receptors (ER+) and up to 15% of them also overexpress or amplify the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), which confers a molecular biology and different ...
Sánchez González, Raúl (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
La influença aviària (IA) es considera una de les malalties virals més importants que afecten la indústria avícola i una amenaça contínua per a la població humana i la vida salvatge. Fins a la data, no hi ha una comparació ...
Massafret Surinyach, Ot (Date of defense: 2022-05-20)
Les cèl·lules mare embrionàries (ESCs) poden presentar almenys dos estats de pluripotència: naïve i primed, amb un perfil d’expressió gènica semblant al de l’epiblast preimplantacional i postimplantacional, respectivament. ...
Pina Miguel, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Los hominoideos actuales (simios y humanos) son primates ortógrados con comportamientos locomotores especializados como la suspensión, la escalada vertical y el bipedismo. En este sentido, identificar aquellas adaptaciones ...
Amador Rios, Raziel (Date of defense: 2022-02-10)
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have proven biological roles in plethora cellular contexts. Nonetheless, only a handful have been clearly characterized, leaving thousands of newly discovered lncRNAs without an associated ...
Gil Miravet, Isis (Date of defense: 2019-06-14)
This doctoral thesis is the first to propose a causative working model for the cerebellum's role in drug-induced memories. We managed to explore the role of the cerebellum in cocaine-induced conditioned preference and its ...