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 ...
Bonjoch Gassol, Laia (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
La pancreatitis aguda és un procés inflamatori del pàncrees desencadenat per una activació inapropiada dels enzims pancreàtics. En la seva variant més severa, la malaltia progressa acompanyada d’afectacions ...
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 ...
Flores Guri, Oscar (Date of defense: 2014-06-10)
This thesis presents a broad study of the chromatin structure and function with special focus in the nucleosome organization. More specifically, it includes three different but complementary perspectives: ...
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 ...
Piquer García, Irene (Date of defense: 2020-01-22)
L’obesitat és una patologia crònica que en les darreres dècades s’ha incrementat de manera alarmant al món especialment en els països mes desenvolupats. Malgrat que la dieta i l’exercici físic són dos ...
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 ...