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, ...
Guo, Ying (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
The Amaryllidaceae alkaloids represent a large and still expanding group of isoquinoline alkaloids, usually classified into nine skeleton types whose representative compounds are: norbelladine, lycorine, ...
Chiesa, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a member of the polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases family; the most famous of which is Huntington disease (HD). SBMA is caused by the expansion of the ...
Parkkola, Hanna (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
Novel stategies are needed to improve the limited efficacy of current cancer therapies. High expectations are directed towards nanotechnology-based applications in cancer medicine. We have developed a ...
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 ...