Pavelescu, Irina (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
This PhD thesis represents an advance in the present understanding of the spatiotemporal control of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana root growth and development. The size and structure of a living ...
Zagmutt Caroca, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)
Food intake and whole-body energy balance are regulated by the brain through a sophisticated neuronal network located mostly in the hypothalamus. In particular, the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) ...
Atay, Ata (Date of defense: 2017-03-10)
This dissertation covers the study of assignment problems in a game theoretical framework, focusing on multi-sided assignment games and stability notions. In Chapter 2, we provide some preliminaries ...
Parra Puerto, Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-11-26)
This thesis is devoted to prove the concept of the CO(2) reduction to CH(4) with a decreasing in the voltage requirements using a photocatalytic mechanism. Subsequently, part of the solar energy is ...
Toribio Isaías, Luis Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
The aim of this project is to structurally characterize proteins involved in bacterial signal transduction systems by applying X-ray crystallography. Bacteria use signal transduction systems to react ...
Camargo Correa, Selene (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
The dissertation builds on Bourdieu's theory of the habitus and fields to argue that job-search strategies cannot be understood in isolation of their cultural context. It is to be expected, then, that ...
Romo Fernández, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
In this Doctoral Thesis a new stereoselective Ni(II)–mediated catalytic system for the SN1–like addition of chiral Nacyl thiazolidinethiones to electrophiles able to deliver cationic species under ...
Zamudio Vázquez, Rubí (Date of defense: 2014-02-14)
Triostins are members of the quinoxaline antibiotic family, together with the "prototypical bisintercalator" echinomycin. These molecules display interesting antitumour activities as they inhibit ...
Coll Benejam, Catalina (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
[eng] Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), since its first implementation by Ernst August Friedrich Ruska and Max Knoll in 1931, has been an essential technique in the nanoscience and nanotechnology ...
Athanasiadis, Georgios (Date of defense: 2010-07-14)
In this work we have analyzed the variation of (i) several X chromosome polymorphic Alu insertions and (ii) several SNPs and microsatellites within and around the genomic regions of the genes coding for ...