Szulc, Elizbieta Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-09)
Androgen receptor is a transcription factor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and progression. Its N-terminal intrinsically disordered activation domain is an example of ill- structured ...
Schirinzi, Gabriella Francesca (Date of defense: 2020-06-10)
In recent decades, global plastics production and consumption have continued to increase. Although many policy strategies on waste prevention and recycling have been implemented, much of the plastic ...
Sandoval Sandoval, Viviana Paz (Date of defense: 2020-02-20)
The excess of fat deposits are originated by a prolonged imbalance between the energy intake and the energy expenditure. The current food pattern based on a high consumption of saturated fats, simple ...
Balmori de la Puente, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
Phylogenetic and phylogeographic methods allow studying the evolutionary relationships between populations and species, patterns of genetic structure, and historical events that have modelled the current ...
Magontier, Pierre (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
The world has been urbanizing at an incredible pace during the last century. Meanwhile, the global rise in temperatures has led to the increased probabilities of gradual and sudden natural disasters, ...
Sanmartí Boixeda, Neus (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Our world is subjected to a panoply of drivers of change. In this context, the understanding on how our biosphere resists, absorbs or is altered by the changes, appears as a hot question in ecology. In ...
Daví-Arderius, Daniel (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Environmental awareness is of increasing concern for society and leads heavy pressure to adopt challenging political decisions. In this context, electricity systems are facing a massive transformation ...
Feiner Gracia, Natalia (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)
The precise delivery of therapeutic agents to their specific site of action is a big challenge in cancer treatment, which would enhance the efficacy and reduce the side effects of drugs. In this framework, ...
Luna, Raimon (Date of defense: 2020-06-22)
In this thesis we apply new approaches and develop new techniques to address various issues related to fundamental aspects of modern gravitational theory and black holes. We study the behavior of ...
Liu, Changxin (Date of defense: 2020-10-29)
The main topic of this Thesis is to investigate the contribution of polyamines to defense in Arabidopsis thaliana and the requirement of callose deposition for full expression of effector-triggered ...