Font Díaz, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Nuclear receptors are a superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors that are involved in numerous biological processes in homeostasis and disease. Liver X receptors (LXRs) are members of the ...
Gracia Latorre, Elena (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
[eng] Enhancers are the master regulators of gene expression. Genes rely on them to be differentially expressed in different tissues, developmental time points or contexts. In recent years, it has been ...
Fernández Gel, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
[eng] I study the metaphysical foundation of ethics in Aristotle and Aquinas. I conclude their ethical systems rest on an essentialist and teleological metaphysics, without which they collapse. Next, I ...
Alonso Martínez de Marañón, Josune (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[spa] La terapia actual contra la mayoría de los cánceres está basada en el uso de agentes que dañan el ADN, como la quimioterapia o la radioterapia, que erradican las células tumorales proliferantes. ...
Bantulà, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] This thesis has been designed to characterize the low-grade chronic inflammation present in obesity in patients suffering from asthma, and to describe some of the mechanisms involved in the ...
Martínez Martínez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
[spa] HERC1 es una E3 ubicuitina ligasa de la familia HECT. Mutaciones en el gen de HERC1 han sido relacionadas con diferentes tipos de cánceres y enfermedades neurodegenerativas. En esta tesis, ...
Moreno Pulido, Cristian (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
[eng] The Cosmological Constant, Λ, has been a controversial element in theoretical physics and cosmology since its introduction by Einstein in his field equations in 1917. Despite maintaining an irregular ...
Morera Navarro, Ivan (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
[eng] In this Thesis we explore exotic phases of matter which arise when different mechanisms compete and favor different ground state configurations. We focus on two classes of low dimensional lattice ...
Cereceda López, Eric (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)
[eng] In this thesis, I study the behavior of confined colloidal particles in aqueous suspension driven through an optical potential. For this purpose, I use micro-meter polystyrene particles, which I ...
Tom, Thomas (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)
[eng] Global energy use has increased, causing a rapid shift in the climate. Renewable energy sources such as solar energy must replace fossil fuels to slow down this trend. In order to achieve this, ...