Michel Todó, Lucas (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
[eng] The most severe form of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum parasites, still kills over half a million people every year, most of them children under the age of five. Despite huge research ...
Romero Durana, Miguel Alfonso (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
Proteins play a crucial role in virtually every biological process taking place within our cells. Most of the times, proteins do not participate in these processes alone but forming complexes of two or ...
Tello Velasco, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-09-19)
[eng] For this purpose, Spatial Analysis of Functional Enrichment (SAFE) framework was proposed to uncover functional regions in a network by embedding it in 2-dimensions (2D) using the Spring embedding ...
Pijuán Jiménez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2019-12-02)
During the process of corticogenesis, cortical radial glial cells (RGs) generate sequentially most of the distinct types of neurons and glial cells that will populate the neocortex. The generation of ...
Candotti, Michela (Date of defense: 2016-12-09)
This work aims to analytically understand the impact of two diametric opposite environments on protein structure and dynamics and compared them to the most common solvent on earth: water. The first ...
González Gobartt, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Body axis elongation is a hallmark of the vertebrate embryo, which also comprises the morphogenesis of the caudal neural tube (NT). The contribution of bipotential neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs) to ...
Hereu Planellas, Mercè (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)
Modern lifestyles in an increasing number of human societies include consuming an excess of saturated fats and refined sugars as well as enjoying microbiologically aseptic environments. Maintaining the ...
Perez Lopez, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-07-13)
The incremental application of supercomputers to offer solutions to complex problems has motivated the usage of computational modeling tools in drug design pipelines. Specifically, small low-affinity ...
Carvalho Simoes, Francisco Manuel de (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Glucose transporters (GLUTs) are extremely important for glucose metabolism. Glucose transporters uptake glucose from blood stream into the cells where it can be metabolized. Among the glucose transporters ...
Amengual-Rigo, Pep (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)
Proteins are large macromolecules constituted by amino acids that are responsible for most of the biological processes within a cell. Proteins showing high complementary affinity may bind forming ...