Calderone, Vittorio (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Hepatic cirrhosis is a largely diffused pathology caused by alcohol abuse and hepatitis C in developed countries, whereas hepatitis B is the cause in most parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It's ...
Fàbrega Ferrer, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
The Escherichia coli infecting T7 bacteriophage shares a common dsDNA packaging mechanism with other bacteriophages of the Caudovirales order, Herpesviruses and Adenoviruses. The packaging machinery ...
Barros, Susana Raquel Costa (Date of defense: 2020-02-13)
OPA1 is a dynamin-related protein that is responsible for the fusion of the internal mitochondrial membrane and essential to control the morphology of the mitochondrial cristae. Thus, it directly impacts ...
Gumí Audenis, Berta (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
Biological membranes (BMs) are self-sealing boundaries, which confine the permeability barriers of cells and organelles and provide the means to compartmentalize functions. Apart from being crucial for ...
De Mol, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer. Around 1.1 million men worldwide were diagnosed with PCa in 2012. PCa depends essentially on androgen stimulation for ...
Mir Bonnín, Joan Francesc (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Previous studies have reported the importance of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) 1A as an essential part of downstream ghrelin signaling in the central nervous system (CNS) for the control of food ...
Ezquerra González, Artur (Date of defense: 2019-06-27)
Microtubules (MTs) mediate a range of essential cellular processes including cell division, intracellular transport and organelle positioning, by forming specifically adapted arrays. Assembly, maintenance ...
Calle Fabregat, Carlos de la (Date of defense: 2022-03-15)
OBJECTIVE: Identifying predictive biomarkers at early stages of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) is crucial for starting appropriate therapies to avoid poor outcomes. Monocytes and macrophages, largely ...
Atanasov, Kostadin Evgeniev (Date of defense: 2019-05-14)
Arabidopsis thaliana is a small ruderal weed with prominent north-hemisphere distribution. It has an autogamous style of reproduction, whereas about 3% of the natural population can exhibit outcrosses. ...
Arcella, Annalisa (Date of defense: 2014-06-25)
During my PhD thesis used theoretical techniques, in particular Molecular Dynamics to study the structural properties of nucleie acids in non-canonical environment, especially in the gas phase and apolar ...