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. ...
Maíllo Carbajo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
The Cytoplasmic Polyadenylation Element Binding (CPEB)-family of RNA-binding proteins is composed of four paralogs in mammals, CPEB1-4. The CPEBs control the translation of the targeted mRNAs by modulating ...
Cuesta Borràs, Estefania (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of death worldwide and tumour recurrence is a frequent complication that arises from minimal residual disease and shows up after a period of clinical dormancy. ...
Chaparro Mendivelso, Hooz Angela (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
This thesis analyzed the dynamics of tree radial growth at different time-scales in relation to climate and drought in two tropical dry forests (TDFs) from Colombia (Tuluá) and Bolivia (INPA). The ...
Ezquerra González, Artur (Date of defense: 2019-06-27)
Microtubules (MTs) mediate a range of essential cellular processes including cell division, intracellular transport and organelle positioning, by forming specifically adapted arrays. Assembly, maintenance ...
Garate Amenabarro, Leyre (Date of defense: 2017-09-01)
El estudio se centra la filogenia, biología y ecología de la demosponja Hemimycale columella y su simbiosis con una bacteria calcificadora (calcibacteria). Posteriormente se incorporaron otras especies ...
Arenas Lahuerta, Enrique Javier (Date of defense: 2017-04-07)
Breast Cancer (BC) is one of the major causes of cancer deaths in women. BC is a heterogeneous disease, and within the heterogeneity of the tumor, Tumor-Initiating Cells (TICs) have been reported as ...
Vitos Faleato, Jessica (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
Tumors evolve by sequentially acquiring genetic abnormalities, like K-Ras activation and Tp53 loss of function, which enable transformed cells to survive, proliferate, invade, and reprogram their ...