Plazaola Sasieta, Haritz (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
The chloride channel ClCN2 is expressed in glia in the mature nervous system of vertebrates and some physiological functions have been proposed. In addition, human patients with mutations in the gene ...
Casas Lamesa, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Histone H1 is a key determinant of higher-order chromatin structures and for a long time it has been considered a main transcriptional repressor. So consistent with its biochemical properties, the absence ...
Almacellas i Canals, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Lysosomes are the primary degradative organelles in mammalian cells. Indeed, lysosome enzymatic cocktail allows the degradation of a vast repertoire of cellular material through different converging ...
Amirthalingam, Ezhil (Date of defense: 2018-10-01)
This thesis has its main focus on developing multi-functional nanomaterials, that we called nano- and microtools through two different approaches, top-down to provide support and bottom up to give ...
Choi, Hoon (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
This thesis provides an analysis of the problems associated with the dual labor market structure and credentialism in Korea. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the effectiveness of an education policy in Korea ...
Obrador Cursach, Bartomeu (Date of defense: 2018-07-03)
Phrygian is a fragmentary Indo-European language recorded in inscriptions found mainly in central Anatolia, dated to between ca. 800 BC and the 3rd century AD. The main objective of this dissertation ...
Lafuente Fabra, Maria (Date of defense: 2018-07-18)
The present research project can be included in the broad supramolecular chemistry field that was defined by Nobel laureate Jean Marie Lehn as the "chemistry beyond the molecule".1 It is based on processes ...
Baumann, Adrian (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
Endocytosis and endosomal trafficking are of central meaning in all eukaryotic cells. It enables cells to rapidly modify their surface exposure of signalling complexes, nutrient and ion transporters, ...
Vitos Faleato, Jessica (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
Tumors evolve by sequentially acquiring genetic abnormalities, like K-Ras activation and Tp53 loss of function, which enable transformed cells to survive, proliferate, invade, and reprogram their ...
Macías Montero, José Gabriel (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a molecular imaging technique used for several decades in nuclear medicine that provides precise physiological information of the human body, what is crucial in ...