The 22nd Doctors' Senate Award (2018) distinguishes a thesis on cell molecular motors

The awarded thesis is focused on the study of the collective activity of cytoskeletal molecular motors, a structure that shapes a scaffold for the cell, with the aim to contribute to the comprehension of the creation of force and movements within it. The study has carried out a theoretic study on the collective action of these motors and generation of dynamic instabilities caused by the cooperative action between them. The thesis is created by five articles, published in high impact journals such as Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

The jury has given the honourable mention of the 22nd Doctorsʼ Senate Award to the researcher Lucia Vaquero Zamora, for her study Brain structural predisposition for music and Language processing. The second mention has been awarded to the researcher Miquel Cabal Guarro, for his study Actituds, transmissió i usos linguistics dels tartars de Crimea. Both studies have been supervised by Antoni Rodríguez Fornells, from the Department of Psychology.

Also, the jury has awarded a recognition diploma to Marta Subirà Coromina, for her thesis Caracterització de les alteracions cerebrals associades a lʼheterogeneïtat clínica del trastorn obsessiu compulsiu mitjançant ressonància magnètica estructural i functional, with the researcher Carlos Soriano-Mas, from Hospital Bellvitge-IDIBELL as supervisor, and tutored by M. del Pino Alonso Ortega from the Department of Clinical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Bellvitge Campus). The other diploma has been given to researcher Paula Garcia Esparcia, for the thesis Identification of a risk transriptome and proteome in Parkinsonʼs disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies and rapidly progressive Dementia with Lewy bodies, supervised by Professor Isidre Ferrer Abizanda, from the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy of the same faculty.

The Doctors' Senate Award of the University of Barcelona was created to distinguish doctoral theses that are read in this institution and represent relevant contributions to the human knowledge and science progress.