Masgrau Fortuny, Aina (Date of defense: 2014-09-05)
Cell growth and division requires delivery of new membrane and remodelling factors to the cell surface. In budding yeast, this involves actin-dependent transport of secretory vesicles to sites of ...
Ruiz Roig, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2011-12-02)
A Saccharomyces cerevisiae, un increment de la temperatura comporta diversos efectes deleteris en l’organització interna de la cèl∙lula i indueix una inducció ràpida, massiva i transitòria d’expressió ...
Wibowo, Indra (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
The purpose of this thesis is to introduce and demonstrate several biological processes or phenomena using posterior lateral line system of zebrafish as a model. The first part of this work focuses on ...
Pupuleku, Aldi (Date of defense: 2017-11-10)
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection induces a persistent reconfiguration of the NK cell compartment in some individuals, promoting the development of a mature NK cell subset, hallmarked by high ...
Bosch Morató, Mònica (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
The Amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) is accumulated in several diseases including GNE myopathy and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). GNE myopathy is a skeletal muscle disorder caused by biallelic mutations in the ...
Martínez Corral, Rosa (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
In this Thesis we have studied how dynamics and space modulate cellular behaviour, by means of mathematical modelling of particular biological examples. At the single cell level, we show how pulsatile ...