López Asamar, Abraham (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) is an 81-KDa bidomain enzyme which hydrolyses short proline-containing peptides. This enzyme is involved in mnemonic and cognitive processes, and the dysregulation of POP ...
Moreno Mota, Ximena (Date of defense: 2011-07-28)
In the Southeastern Iberian Margin, the compression between the African and Eurasian Plates is characterized by a moderate seismicity and a slow NW-SE convergence (4.5-5.6 mm/yr). In southeastern Spain, ...
Solé Castellví, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-11-25)
"R. solanacearum" is a devastating bacterial pathogen that infects "Solanaceae" spp. such as tomato, eggplant or banana. A functional T3SS is required for virulence and more than 70 putative effectors ...
Pereira Lopes, Selma Patrícia (Date of defense: 2014-02-20)
Trex1 is an exonuclease that was first identified in mammal cells and due to its role in DNA metabolism was conjectured to have a role in DNA damage repair and cancer. It was unexpected to find that ...
Duocastella Solà, Martí (Date of defense: 2010-05-17)
<b>THESIS SUMMARY:</b><br/><br/>The possibility to print tiny amounts of functional materials in a controllable way is of interest in a large number of applications, for instance in the manufacturing ...
Florian Baron, Camilo (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
Digital manufacturing constitutes a real industrial revolution that is transforming the production processes from the early stages of research and development to mass production and marketing. The biggest ...
Sanz Ródenas, Héctor (Date of defense: 2017-07-19)
The process of creating an efficacious malaria vaccine is complex due to the characteristics of the disease that are directly related to the responsible parasite. In the disease-vaccine interaction ...
Torrealba Sandoval, Débora Alejandra (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
El mantenimiento de la homeostasis del sistema inmune innato es fundamental, ya que éste debe mantener una respuesta equilibrada frente a los patógenos. En mamíferos, uno de los mecanismos por el cual ...
Rossi, Daniela (Date of defense: 2013-10-16)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, with more than 25 million people affected worldwide. First described in 1907 by the German physician Alois Alzheimer, AD is ...
Stegun Vidigal, Vera Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
The short-tailed opossums of the genus Monodelphis Burnett, 1830 are small-bodied semifossorial marsupials which inhabit almost all major biomes of South America up to 2200 m. Even though it is one of ...