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Castellarnau Serra, Montserrat de (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
El virus de l’hepatitis A (HAV), el prototip del gènere Hepatovirus, té una sèrie de característiques que el diferencien de la resta de membres de la família Picornaviridae. Entre aquestes, la via de sortida descrita ...
Martí Solans, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-09-07)
El creixent nombre de genomes seqüenciats està posant de manifest que la pèrdua gènica és un fenomen recurrent que pot haver generat diversitat al llarg de la història evolutiva dels diferents grups d’organismes. En aquest ...
Pi Roig, Aina (Date of defense: 2018-04-06)
Tbx5 is a transcription factor expressed in the developing eyes, heart and upper limbs. Mutations in human TBX5 cause Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS), a condition characterised by heart and upper limb malformations. In zebrafish, ...
Cárdenas Youngs, Yexenia I. (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
Esta tesis doctoral tuvo como objetivo principal identificar y cuantificar la presencia de bacterias patógenas, mediante el uso de indicadores de contaminación fecal y Legionella en aguas de riego aplicando métodos ...
Lema Asqui, Saúl Stalin (Date of defense: 2018-06-08)
The hypersensitive response (HR) is a paradigmatic type of programmed cell death, that occurs in response to pathogen recognition at the site of attempted invasion. Notwithstanding more than a century of research on HR, ...
Puigvert Sànchez, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-06-05)
The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of bacterial wilt, a highly aggressive disease responsible for important worldwide economic losses. Many virulence factors in R. solanacearum have been already ...
Tell Martí, Gemma (Date of defense: 2018-05-07)
El gen MC1R (codi OMIM: #155555) codifica pel receptor de la melanocortina 1 (MC1R) que s’expressa majoritàriament a la membrana dels melanòcits i està implicat en la regulació de la síntesi de melanina. El gen MC1R és ...
Quirós Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2018-04-12)
Tanto los genes de resistencia a antibióticos (ARGs) como algunos genes de virulencia son movilizados entre las poblaciones bacterianas por elementos genéticos móviles (MGE). La transferencia horizontal de genes (HGT) está ...
Izquierdo Bouldstridge, Andrea (Date of defense: 2018-03-13)
Seven linker histone H1 variants are present in human somatic cells with distinct prevalence across cell types. Using variant-specific antibodies to H1 and hemagglutinin-tagged recombinant H1 variants expressed in breast ...
Sureda Gómez, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
La vía Wnt canónica es una vía de señalización muy conservada a lo largo de la evolución de los animales. Esta vía controla múltiples procesos como es la especificación del eje anteroposterior o el destino celular durante ...
Fernández Pineda, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
El establecimiento de conexiones sinápticas específicas entre neuronas es esencial para la formación de los circuitos neuronales. En muchos sistemas esto requiere de una extensión hacia una capa sináptica concreta y la ...
Gholami, Behjat (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Osteoporosis is a general skeletal disorder. It is characterized by a low bone mass and a microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, which increase bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. LRP5 is a widely ...
Ribó Gené, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
Childhood obesity and overweight can often cause severe complications, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, amongst other disorders. Several ...
Olivares Castiñeira, Ivette (Date of defense: 2017-12-20)
The tracheal (respiratory) system of the Drosophila embryo is a network of interconnected epithelial tubes that supplies and exchanges the gas to maintain the homeostasis of the entire organism. Maintaining a controlled ...
Papagianni, Aikaterini (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
During early development of bilaterian animals, specific body structures are formed and body axes are established. The establishment of body axes requires the precise and coordinated function of signalling pathways and ...
Muñoz Gutiérrez, Joel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
La agencia europea del medicamento, EMA, y la estadounidense FDA, propusieron límites de bioequivalencia (BE) “escalada” para facilitar la declaración BE de genéricos de drogas de alta variabilidad (HVD). La ...
Martín Díaz, Julia (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
La presente investigación explora la utilidad de los bacteriófagos y otros microorganismos indicadores de la contaminación fecal en relación a dos grandes tipos de sólidos relevantes en el ciclo del agua, los lodos de ...
Infanzón Ramos, Belén (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This thesis is focused in the identification and improvement of lipases for biotechnological application. The importance of lipases is increasing in several industries. However, the commercial use of lipases is still a ...
Guerrero Ludueña, Richard E. (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Healthcare is changing, and the era of data-driven healthcare organisations is increasingly popular. Data-Driven approaches (e.g., Machine Learning, Metaheuristics, Modelling and Simulation, Data Analytics, and Data ...
El Mouali Benomar, Youssef (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
The regulation of the expression of virulence genes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an intensively studied feature of Salmonella lifestyle. How Salmonella integrates environmental signals to activate ...