Rivadulla Duró, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)
The present dissertation explores the role of imagination in different philosophical domains of inquiry. The thesis set out as a collection of self- standing essays and can be divided into two parts: ...
Arias del Real, Rebeca (Date of defense: 2020-07-06)
Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are watercourses that naturally and periodically cease to flow. They represent more than half of the global river network and are expanding due to global ...
Olivares Requena, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)
Marine planktonic copepods play a key ecological role in pelagic food webs. The study of their patterns of activity is fundamental in order to better understand the processes involved in the transfer ...
Codó Tarraubella, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)
Recently, research processes in Life sciences have evolved at a rapid pace. This evolution, mainly due to technological advances, offers more powerful equipment and generalizes the digital format of ...
Merenciano, Miriam (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
Understanding how organisms adapt to their environment remains an open question in Biology. So far, most projects focus on the study of single nucleotide polymorphism variants, while other types of ...
Trejo Soto, Claudia Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Since Poiseuille times, several techniques has been developed to measure the viscosity of blood. During the 60's and 70's, with the appearance of the first rheomethers, the rheological properties of ...
Gomila Juaneda, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
The main aim of this thesis is setting up and using in vivo screening techniques to identify and characterize new photopharmacological compounds targeting endogenous proteins. In order to achieve ...
Sans Serramitjana, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
P. aeruginosa is one of the major opportunistic pathogen colonizing the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and causing chronic airways infection. Once P.aeruginosa established chronically ...
Arbesú Andrés, Miguel (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
c-Src is a central player in several cellular signaling pathways. It controls impor- tant cellular processes like cellular proliferation, survival or motility. Therefore, a number of tumoral diseases ...
Jesús Gil, Carmen de (Date of defense: 2021-06-01)
Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated inflammatory skin condition affecting around 2% of the population worldwide. Different disease subtypes have been described regarding their specific clinical ...