Arizmendi Mejía, Rosana (Date of defense: 2015-11-25)
Climate change, along with other anthropogenic pressures (e.g. water pollution, overfishing and habitat degradation), is severely impacting oceans around the world, producing important changes in its ...
Atcher Ubiergo, Joan (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)
Dynamic combinatorial chemistry proposes the creation of a library of compounds (dynamic combinatorial library, DCL) inter-connected through reversible chemical processes. The concentrations in a DCL ...
Balaceanu, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
1. The Force Field Accuracy Problem. The utility and applicability of MD simulations to model biomolecular systems goes only as far as its ability to sufficiently sample the conformational space and ...
Afán Asencio, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-10-10)
Seabirds have evolved within an open and dynamic environment, the ocean. As meso-top predators, seabirds are greatly influenced by the oceanographic conditions driving marine productivity, and therefore, ...
Alemany i Arias, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-11-04)
Codification of genetic information; regulation of gene expression; transport of nutrients inside cells; immune protection against infectious agents; transduction of external signals... These are some ...
Colom Sanmartí, Glòria (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
In the course of this thesis, the optimal epitopes for the subsequent polyclonal rabbit antibody production for cTnI and NT-proBNP have been studied and chosen. cTnI and NT-proBNP are the most relevant ...
Mas Soler, Josep (Date of defense: 2017-01-09)
Optical Tweezers (OT) are a light-based non-invasive tool that has played an important role during the last decades in the field of biophotonics, together with the advances in optical microscopy techniques. ...
Oncins Marco, Gerard (Date of defense: 2007-09-21)
The main objective of this work was to quantitatively measure the nanotribological properties or organic layers and rationalize them from a physicochemical point of view. To accomplish that, a wide array ...
Schunter, Celia (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
One of the most important challenges in marine ecology is understanding the dispersal capabilities of species. Connectivity, if from en evolutionary perspective or a more current ecological perspective, ...
Garcia Garcia, Josep (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
During the past years working in Ernest Giralt’s group, I’ve been involved in three different subprojects that constitute one of the three chapter of my thesis and have the same common link: the use of ...