Solé Morata, Neus (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The Y chromosome is the longest non-recombining DNA sequence of the human genome. This avoidance of recombination, together with its paternal inheritance, makes the Y chromosome a powerful tool with ...
Ibáñez Lillo, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. ...
Cesana Arlotti, Nicolò (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
From a developmental perspective, propositional logical reasoning has been often characterized either as the peak of cognitive development or as an innate property of human cognition. Our ignorance of ...
Buch Mundó, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2012-06-29)
Investigation of protein-ligand interactions has been a long-standing application for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations given its importance to drug design. However, relevant timescales for biomolecular ...
Althammer, Sonja Daniela (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)
The recent advent of High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) methods has triggered a revolution in gene regulation studies. Demand has never been higher to process the immense amount of emerging data to gain ...
Julià Pérez, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-07-11)
Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu principal descriure la precarització del mercat laboral tal com es manifesta en diferents tipus de contracte (permanent, temporal i informal) i explorar l’associació de ...
Krüger, Angela (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)
The embryo of Caenorhabditis elegans is a model system in which development can be studied at single cell resolution. In this thesis I describe the use of a semi-automatic nuclear tracking algorithm to ...
Rodríguez Falcón, Manuel (Date of defense: 2010-10-07)
Normally present in water, soil and waste water, Acinetobacter baumannii has become an important nosocomial pathogen, as causal agent of pneumonias, septicemias and urinary tract infections, among ...
López García de Lomana, Adrián (Date of defense: 2010-10-19)
Els mecanismes de regulaci o de les c el lules poden ser modelats per controlar i entendre la biologia cel lular. Diferents nivells d'abstracci o s'utilitzen per descriure els processos biol ogics. ...
Gigli, Elena (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)
The evolutionary history of H. neanderthalensis, interwoven with that of H. sapiens, has always fascinated the scientific world. Recent adavncess in paleogenetics shedds new light on the phylogenetic ...