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 ...
Alcalde Alvites, Miguel Angel (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)
[eng] Plant biofactories constitute an eco-friendly alternative to chemical synthesis as they have a lower environmental impact and therefore contribute to a more sustainable future. Hairy root cultures, ...
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 ...
Privat Contreras, Cristian (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
[eng] Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) landed on the molecular biology framework at the turn of the 20th century to challenge the established protein function- structure paradigm. Due to their ...
Palma Guillén, Alfred (Date of defense: 2023-10-20)
[eng] In the Mediterranean basins, rice is mainly cultivated in wetland protracted areas such as deltas and marshlands, where it is the prevailing crop due to the high soil salinity. This salinity is ...
Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)
[eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal ...
Oriol López, Roger (Date of defense: 2023-10-23)
[eng] Groundwater has been traditionally considered a reliable source of freshwater. However, the low replenishment rates and the increasing contamination due to different anthropogenic activities, such ...
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 ...
González Álamos, María (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)
[eng] The vault particle, with a mass of 10 MDa and dimensions of 70 nm x 40 nm x 40 nm, is the largest ribonucleoprotein described in the eukaryotic kingdom. The vault shell is organized in two identical ...