Hashemi, Amin (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)
[eng] Analogical reasoning is fundamental to human thinking; it plays an important role in a variety of problem-solving contexts. Analogical problem-solving involves recognizing relational similarities ...
Iglesia Rodríguez, Alberto de la (Date of defense: 2022-10-28)
[eng] Contrasting the traditional idea of the male gamete being a simple carrier of the paternal DNA, evidence in the last decades revealed that the sperm cell provides the embryo with different layers ...
Gallo, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-08)
[eng] Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer a significant advantage in recapitulating key features related to tissue differentiation, morphogenesis and, conversely, human diseases. Taking advantage ...
Trujillano Fernández, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2024-02-08)
[eng] DYRK1A is a kinase that is expressed in virtually all tissues and cell types and is implicated in human diseases. Several studies indicate that DYRK1A is a dose-dependent gene with a prevalent ...
Bartomeu i Galan, Anna (Date of defense: 2024-01-29)
[eng] Cytoplasmic Polyadenylation Element Binding proteins (CPEBs) are a family of RNA-binding proteins that regulate cytoplasmic changes in poly(A) tail lengh and therefore mRNA-specific stability and ...
Pérez Jaume, Sara (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
[eng] INTRODUCTION: A diagnostic test is a measurement taken from a subject with the aim of diagnosing a certain condition of interest, such as diseased patient or healthy individual. Typically, ...
Alcaide i Jiménez, Adrià (Date of defense: 2023-12-01)
[eng] Cholera is an acute life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, a devastating pathogen in least developed countries, which caused six world pandemics, apart from the ongoing ...
Maldonado Murciano, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
[eng] In recent decades, video games have become a popular form of entertainment; so much so, that elite video gamers can be paid in a professional capacity. As such, the scientific community has shown ...
Alqahtani, Abdulateef (Date of defense: 2023-10-25)
[eng] In 2001, the initial hypothesis of targeted protein degradation (TPD) was born to announce the launching of a new era of therapeutics development not by inhibiting a component of ubiquitin-proteasome ...
Dumaze, Anaëlle (Date of defense: 2023-11-08)
[eng] My thesis was part of a collaborative project at the interface of neuropharmacology and medicinal chemistry that aimed to better understand the neuromodulation mechanisms associated with Alzheimer’s ...