Vilar Ribó, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-11-20)
[eng] Substance use disorders (SUDs) are psychiatric disorders characterized by a recurring desire to continue taking a substance regardless of its destructive consequences. The etiology of SUDs is ...
Giroud-Gernetant Deus, Judith (Date of defense: 2023-11-20)
[eng] Lysinuric Protein Intolerance (LPI) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the SLC7A7 gene, which encodes the y+LAT1 transporter. LPI presents a pleiotropic phenotype that ...
Núñez Carpintero, Iker (Date of defense: 2023-11-14)
[eng] The vast and continuously increasing volume of available biomedical data produced during the last decades opens new opportunities for large-scale modeling of disease biology, facilitating a more ...
Cuesta Porta, Victor (Date of defense: 2023-11-13)
[eng] The oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) are a group of specialized endophytophagous microhymenopterans that induce galls on Fagaceae trees, principally oaks (Quercus L.). The systematics ...
Schikora Tamarit, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
[eng] Fungal infections pose a serious health threat, affecting >1,000 million people and causing ~1.5 million deaths each year. The problem is growing due to insufficient diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Ruiz Serra, Victoria Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-11-08)
[eng] Proteins are fundamental building blocks of life, and understanding their structure and function is crucial for many fields of science, from drug discovery to bioengineering. Traditional experimental ...
Bellvert Bantí, Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-11-02)
[eng] Without a shadow of a doubt, adaptive radiation processes have played a major role in our current understanding of how species evolved on our planet. Since the original proposal of the theory of ...
Doria Belenguer, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-10-07)
[eng] Advances in capturing technologies have yielded a massive production of large-scale molecular data that describe different aspects of cellular functioning. These data are often modeled as networks, ...
Serra-Sala, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2023-12-11)
[eng] This dissertation contributes to this debate by studying redistribution from three different perspectives. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second and third chapters ...
Moskvina, Natalia (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
[eng] This doctoral dissertation examines incidental learning of formulaic sequences from exposure to L2 captioned videos of different genres and explores learner-related factors that might affect this ...