Tecchio, Samuele (Date of defense: 2013-02-14)
The Mediterranean Sea can be considered an excellent natural laboratory for benthic ecologists, due to its peculiar environmental conditions, its broad-scale gradients, and its deep-sea fauna. Primary ...
Metallinou, Margarita (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)
The arid areas of North Africa and Arabia cover a surface of more than 13 million square kilometers and are characterized by their extreme temperatures, diversity of desert habitats and well-adapted ...
Deniz, Ozgen (Date of defense: 2014-05-06)
The nucleosome is the fundamental structural unit of DNA compaction in eukaryotic cells and is formed by the wrapping of 147 bp double stranded DNA around a histone octamer. Nucleosome organization plays ...
Arroyo Sánchez, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
Network and systems biology disciplines could revolutionize the study of complex diseases by taking proteins back to their context, considering a much broader perspective of their environment without ...
Vera Montecinos, América (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder involving dysregulation of multiple pathways. In the last decades, the cortico-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical circuit has been proposed to play a key role ...
Pinacho Garcia, Raquel (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Psychotic disorders including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are a leading cause of disability across the world but the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Available ...
Dimastrogiovanni, Giorgio (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
Many chemicals are continuously entering into the aquatic environment, as a result of their widespread use, disposal and accidental release. Several of these xenobiotics may disrupt reproductive functions ...
Gonzàlez Juncà, Alba (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
The TGF-beta oncogenic effect has been widely studied. In glioma, TGF-beta has an oncogenic role increasing cell proliferation and glioma-initiating cell (GIC) self-renewal capacity. During the investigation ...
Fernández Torras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-11-28)
[eng] In the quest for understanding complex biological systems, the scientific community has been delving into protein, chemical and disease biology, populating biomedical databases with a wealth of ...
Turón Rodrigo, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
Colorectal tumors are not homogeneous entities but rather composed of a mixture of cells with different phenotypes, reminiscent of healthy intestinal epithelium cell types. Intestinal epithelium is one ...