Sirvent Blasco, Jose Luis (Date of defense: 2019-02-07)
The LHC injectors upgrade (LIU) project aims to boost the LHC luminosity by doubling the beam brightness with the construction of the new LINAC4, the first linear accelerator on the LHC chain. The ...
Querejeta Coma, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
The study of intraspecific diversity is essential in ecology and evolution as they reveal fine-scale patterns and it is crucial in conservation planning. The main aim of this thesis is to study the ...
Meletlidis Tsiogalos, Stavros (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
The Canarian archipelago, extends over approximately 500 km in total along the passive continental margin off NW Africa, comprises seven major and four minor islands, and it is part of the so called ...
Li, Junshan (Date of defense: 2019-06-18)
In this project, nanoparticles were produced by solution-based one-pot synthesis, particularly colloidal methods. A series of powerful tools were used to characterize the structure and surface compositions ...
Llorach Parés, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
The potential of natural products in general, and marine natural products in particular, as pharmacological entities has been widely demonstrated in recent years. Marine benthic ecosystems contain an ...
Arranz Gibert, Pol (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
The work of this thesis is based on research on peptides able to cross the blood-brain barrier and their use as tools to enable the delivery of drugs into the brain. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is ...
Brun Cubero, Omar (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
An alternative allowing diene-derivatised polyamides to be used in Diels-Alder conjugation reactions has been explored and developed. In this methodology, conjugation takes place between a fully protected, ...
Ivani, Iván (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
Classical force fields are the core of classical simulations, particularly of molecular dynamics (MD), a technique that is changing our view on the structure, flexibility and function of biological ...
Azagra Rodríguez, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
B lymphopoiesis is the result of several cell lineage choices and differentiation steps whose perturbation leads to B cell malignancies. Cellular transitions for B cell generation have been associated ...
Juárez Rodríguez, Carmen (Date of defense: 2017-06-26)
Turbulence, magnetic fields and gravity driven flows are important for the formation of new stars. Although magnetic fields have been proven to be important in the formation of stars, only a few works ...