Fernández Torras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-11-28)
[eng] In the quest for understanding complex biological systems, the scientific community has been delving into protein, chemical and disease biology, populating biomedical databases with a wealth of ...
Turón Rodrigo, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
Colorectal tumors are not homogeneous entities but rather composed of a mixture of cells with different phenotypes, reminiscent of healthy intestinal epithelium cell types. Intestinal epithelium is one ...
Pagès Fauria, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-09-16)
Overall, this thesis aims at approaching macrophyte herbivory and community ecology from a behavioural landscape perspective. Our study system, the seascape mosaic of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows ...
Pons Pons, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
SLIMP (Seryl-tRNA Synthetase-Like Insect Mitochondrial Protein) was identified during the generation of a mitochondrial human disease fly model. SLIMP was described as a previously uncharacterized paralog ...
Aragón Altarriba, Eric (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Cell fate is controlled by a multitude of signals and loss of this control has devastating consequences for living organisms. One of the key players in this network of signals is the TGF-beta family of ...
Mecho Lausac, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
The study of the non-crustacean invertebrates dwelling on the deep Mediterranean Sea is of interest for different marine science disciplines, being the diversity of species and their distributions largely ...
Alibakhshi, Esmaeil (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
INTRODUCTION: Patients with chronic respiratory disease (CRDs) have a disorder in muscle structure and function, but their function increases with physical progress and decreases the risk of general and ...
Tur Torres, Juan (Date of defense: 2017-03-22)
Mitochondria are well known for their role as bioenergetic and biosynthetic organelles. Recently, they also have emerged as one of the main regulators of innate immune responses, mostly for its ability ...
Bellmunt i Tarragó, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The identification of genes that mediate metastasis is pivotal to better understand the mechanism, to develop novel drugs and to stratify patients with highest risk and consecutively administrate them ...
Colmenero Ginés, Ana Isabel (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
In the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, anglerfishes Lophius budegassa Spinola, 1807 and Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, 1758 are among the most valuable demersal species and support an important fishery. ...