Villamor Payà, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-07-08)
The Tousled like kinases 1 and 2 (TLK1 and TLK2) are evolutionarily conserved Ser/Thr kinases that are required for genome stability and normal development in numerous organisms. Both kinases contribute ...
Zimmermann, Fabian (Date of defense: 2021-11-24)
The microtubule nucleator γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) is essential for the function of microtubule organizing centers such as the centrosome. Since its discovery over two decades ago, γTuRC has evaded ...
Arafaty, Nazanin (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)
The topic of this thesis is to investigate the polyamine metabolism during defense response in Arabidopsis thaliana. I mainly focused on the alteration of polyamine metabolism in different layers of ...
Marín-Valls, Roser (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
Biocatalysis gained importance in the latter half of the 20th century and its application in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries continues to expand nowadays. Enzymes catalyze chemical ...
Scaffidi, Salvatore (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
Once a target is identified and characterized, the long pathway to develop a drug starts. In this process, biophysical methods have an important part to play and nowadays are firmly combined at several ...
Batllori Tragant, Marta (Date of defense: 2021-04-12)
Els errors congènits del metabolisme són malalties d’origen genètic amb una baixa prevalença dins de la població general. Aquestes malalties solen estar causades per mutacions en gens que provoquen ...
Arroba Hidalgo, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
The human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classic MHC class I molecule. It is called “non-classic” because it differs from classic MHC class I molecules due to its very low amount of polymorphism ...
Checa Raya, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)
INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary manifestations are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in more than 90 % of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients who exceed the neonatal period. The chronic immune-inflammatory ...
Kopper, Klaudia Lilla (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
This thesis has been developed in the framework of the European FoodSmartphone project with the objective to develop user-friendly smartphone-connected electrochemical immunosensors for pesticide residue ...
Jiménez Panizo, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
El receptor de glucocorticoides (GR) es un factor de transcripción que se expresa de forma ubicua y controla procesos esenciales para la vida como el metabolismo, la inflamación y la homeostasis. Aunque ...