Mixão, Verónica de Pinho (Date of defense: 2020-10-20)
Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How ...
Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred (Date of defense: 2020-05-25)
In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both ...
De Santiago , Jessica (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
In neuropsychiatry, the development of brain imaging and dedicated data analysis for personalized medicine promises to predict both the evolution of diseases and responses of treatments. The ability to ...
Romão, Daniela (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)
Alterations in developmental transitions are common among animals to compensate for growth disturbances. These variations are usually a consequence of altered steroidal hormone production resulting in ...
An, Weiteng (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)
Peptide-based vaccines have raised as an attractive alternative strategy to overcome many of the limitations of conventional vaccines. Some drawbacks for an optimal immune response in vivo are, a poor ...
Selfa Aspiroz, Idoia Lucía (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
During the last years, the development of procedures to direct the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) towards different renal cell types has resulted in the establishment of approaches ...
Casamayor, Gerard (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Text summarization deals with the automatic creation of summaries from one or more documents, either by extracting fragments from the input text or by generating an abstract de novo. Research in recent ...
Franzoni, Federico (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
During the last decade, cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial industry. In these systems, participants communicate by means of a peer-to-peer protocol. Today, many of such protocols take ...
Fernández Blanco, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-04-13)
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic form of intellectual disability and arises from the partial or total trisomy of the Homo Sapiens Autosome 21. The cellular and molecular mechanisms that ...
Mòdol Cano, Aitor (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)
El cilio primario es una estructura formada por microtúbulos que sobresale de la superficie celular durante G0 teniendo una función de orgánulo sensor. La importancia del cilio es patente por las ...