Debeusscher, Juliane (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This dissertation examines the circulation and visibilisation of Central European art during the Cold War, with a particular focus on Southern Europe as a space of reception and exhibition throughout ...
Feliu Josa, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2021-03-08)
[eng] INTRODUCTION. Smoking is one of the major public health problems of our times, killing eight-million people a year from direct tobacco-related diseases. Active smoking has been associated with an ...
Armijos Bravo, Grace Victoria (Date of defense: 2023-05-22)
[eng] Health across the life cycle is an important component of well-being and quality of life. Bad health is linked to negative child and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes such as educational achievement, ...
Benito-Monsalvo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-05-22)
[eng] Logical localism is a claim in the philosophy of logic stating that different logics are correct in different domains. There are different ways in which this thesis can be motivated and I will ...
Salamanca Viloria, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)
Tribbles (TRIB) homologues proteins are a family of three pseudokinases withan important role in controlling immunity, metabolism, and cancer throughprotein-protein interactions (PPIs). TRIB pseudokinases ...
Martínez Campanario, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-05-27)
Macrophages polarization from an inflammatory to a tolerogenic state occurs in both physiological and pathological, and this reprogramming is key in the development of several diseases as different as ...
Nicolini, Federica (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
[eng] Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in the homeostasis of the cells; therefore, they are important therapeutic targets. Typically, the goal in targeting PPIs is to impede them. ...
Garcia Cabau, Carla (Date of defense: 2022-05-31)
Intrinsically disordered (ID) proteins or regions are protein sequences that lack stable secondary and tertiary structures. ID proteins are particularly prone to undergo liquid- liquid phase separation ...
Dávila Bouziguet, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease are senile plaques, extracellular deposits of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles, intracellular aggregates of hyperphosphorylated ...
Solé Solé, Judith (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
Following the laws of evolution, bacteria are capable of slowly but inexorably acquiring resistance to antibiotic compounds that we have been using for decades. Therefore, bacteria that seemed harmless ...