Picatoste Olloqui, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
LHCb is one of the four large experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based at CERN. The LHCb experiment is taking data at its nominal design luminosity. However, in order to distinguish among ...
Oriola Santandreu, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
The present work deals with different aspects concerning the collective action of cytoskeletal molecular motors. The thesis is organized in two parts: the first part corresponds to the study of the ...
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 ...
Trejo Soto, Claudia Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Since Poiseuille times, several techniques has been developed to measure the viscosity of blood. During the 60's and 70's, with the appearance of the first rheomethers, the rheological properties of ...
Frigola Tubert, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
Biological development is a complex process in which, from a single cell, a whole multicellular organism arises. The formation of this intrincate structures requires a very precise regulation in space ...
Palau Ortin, David (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
Cells, either as unicellular organisms or as part of a tissue of a multicellular organism, can acquire different functions thanks to their capability of changing their expression state. The enzyme ...
Teller Amado, Sara (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Major dynamical traits of a neuronal network are shaped by its underlying circuitry. In several neurological disorders, the deterioration of brain's functionality and cognition has been ascribed to ...