Sans Serramitjana, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2017-06-15)
P. aeruginosa is one of the major opportunistic pathogen colonizing the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and causing chronic airways infection. Once P.aeruginosa established chronically ...
Arbesú Andrés, Miguel (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
c-Src is a central player in several cellular signaling pathways. It controls impor- tant cellular processes like cellular proliferation, survival or motility. Therefore, a number of tumoral diseases ...
Jesús Gil, Carmen de (Date of defense: 2021-06-01)
Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated inflammatory skin condition affecting around 2% of the population worldwide. Different disease subtypes have been described regarding their specific clinical ...
Arroussi, Hicham (Date of defense: 2016-05-06)
The theory of Bergman spaces has been a central subject of study in complex analysis during the past decades. The book [7] by S. Bergman contains the first systematic treat-ment of the Hilbert space of ...
Montero Serra, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2018-06-07)
Temperate benthic communities face cumulative impacts from multiple stressors acting both at local and global scales. Understanding how local management and ocean warming affect the dynamics and resilience ...
Lledó Ponsatí, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2020-12-09)
In order to mitigate the climate change effects, the world is undergoing an energy transition from polluting sources towards renewable energies. This transition is turning the electricity system more ...
Greene Giannetta, Max (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
The Aran Valley in Catalonia (Spain), was the site of large-scale Zn, Pb, Cu, Fe, and Ag mining from the late 19th century until approximately 1950. Although mining activities ceased over 70 years ago, ...
Guerreiro Duarte Rivaes da Silva, Ana Sofia (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Migration associated with movements between breeding and wintering areas allow animals to maximize fitness in response to seasonal changes in resources (Dingle 2014). Some of the most incredible migrations ...
Schroeder, Kristen (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
Reference is a phenomenon both fundamental to communication and inherent to every act of language use. Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are marked by problems of both communication and language. This ...
Santos Alves, Estela (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Liver diseases resulting from the toxicity induced by frequent pharmacological drug consumption are among the main health problems of modern western societies. On the other hand, healthy life-style-based ...