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 ...
López Cerro, Maria Teresa (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has emerged as a promising alternative host for recombinant protein expression. Despite its advantageous characteristics and low-cost production, its use is hampered by low ...
Antolin Fontes, Albert (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)
The mitochondrial Seryl-tRNA Synthetase (SerRS2) is a member of the class II tRNA synthetase family. The mature enzyme catalyses the ligation of serine to tRNASer in mitochondria. During the process of ...
Chávez Martínez, Ángel de Jesús (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
Los esteroles son una familia de compuestos triterpénicos que se presentan en forma libre (FS, por sus siglas en inglés) o conjugada, como ésteres (SE), glicósidos (SG) y acilglicósidos de esteroles ...
Zuazo Gaztelu, Iratxe (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Tumor progression is a complex conundrum of events that involve not only tumor cells, but also their surrounding microenvironment. Accounting to the natural dependency of tumors on angiogenesis, its ...
Casas Masnou, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
Gene regulation mechanisms control the level of transcription of each gene into RNA and the combination of expressed genes determines cell identity. Gene regulation is maintained by epigenetic mechanisms ...
Martí Coma-Cros, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Malaria is an infectious disease that affects nearly half of the population in 90 countries around the world. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths disproportionately ...
Monaco, Paola (Date of defense: 2022-09-23)
[eng] Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most prevalent soft tissue sarcoma (STS) in children and adolescents. The Alveolar subtype (ARMS) is driven by PAX3-FOXO1, a fusion protein originated from a chromosomal ...
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 ...
Benítez, Sandra (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-β ligand (RANKL) and its receptor RANK are key mediators of bone resorption1,2. RANKL, its receptor RANK and its natural decoy receptor OPG, which is a competitive ...