Linares Arroyo, Hector (Date of defense: 2021-07-27)
The term light pollution refers to different harmful effects produced by artificial light sources. This phenomena affects observational astronomy, the flora and fauna of the species adapted to the natural ...
Seillé, Hoël (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
The Iberian Peninsula is considered as a “micro-continent”, located between the Eurasian and the African plates. Several ranges formed during the Alpine orogeny, in the borders of the plate or intraplate. ...
Tibau Martorell, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
In the present thesis, we propose to explore neuronal circuits at the mesoscale, an approach in which one monitors small populations of few thousand neurons and concentrates in the emergence of collective ...
Baldomá, Inmaculada (Date of defense: 2001-01-01)
In general, when beginning to explore any scientific field, one focuses on the generic situations; that is, one centers on the behaviours that appear in “most” of the cases encountered in practice. This ...
Izquierdo Serra, Mercè (Date of defense: 2014-05-06)
Optical tools to control neuronal activity include synthetic photoswitchable ligands of receptors and ion channels. Photoswitches can act either as soluble molecules (photochromic ligands, PCLs) or ...
Casanellas Vilageliu, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Wormlike micelles are viscoelastic fluids that present an intermediate behavior between solids and ordinary liquids since they are elastic at short time scales but flow easily at large time scales. In ...
Picardo, Massimo (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
Natural toxins include a multitude of toxic secondary metabolites produced by animals, bacteria, fungi algae, and plants that are generally not intended as environmental contaminants of concern for water ...
Munar i Adrover, Pere (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
The high energy astrophysics, specifically the gamma-ray astrophysics, studies the processes that cannot be caused by hot matter but by other mechanisms colled non thermaland processes, which involve ...
Moncunill Massaguer, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
The pro-apoptotic effects of two new drugs have been studied for the development of new strategies for cancer treatment. On the one hand, we proved that AICAR induces apoptosis in an AMPK- and p53-independent ...
Gamboa Badilla, Nancy (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Biological diversity in a global scale has been threaten seriously by anthropogenic disturbances in ecosystems. Changes in land cover and land use affect biodiversity, causing habitat loss and species ...