Fungal Stress Mechanisms and Responses

Dr. Drauzio Eduardo Naretto Rangel is a researcher at Inbioter – Institute of Biotechnology Rangel, Itatiba, SP, Brazil. His research has mostly focused on entomopathogenic fungi, which are used for biological control of insects. He is especially interested in how these fungi tolerate different stress conditions, such as solar UV radiation and heat found in the crop environment, as well as the chemical environment (osmotic, oxidative, and nutritive stress) inside the insect body, and how to improve their tolerance so they can survive better in the field conditions. Rangel received his undergraduate degree from São Francisco University (1983) and his master's in microbiology from São Paulo State University in Jaboticabal (2000), both in Brazil. Rangel then joined Donald W. Roberts at Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, where he obtained his PhD (2006). In 2014, Rangel created the International Symposium on Fungal Stress (ISFUS).

1. How Metarhizium robertsii's mycelial consciousness gets its conidia Zen-ready for stress
Drauzio Eduardo Naretto Rangel
2. Subcellular biochemistry and biology of filamentous entomopathogenic fungi
Sheng-Hua Ying
3. Recovery of Insect-Pathogenic Fungi from Solar UV Damage: Molecular Mechanisms and Prospects
Ming-Guang Feng
4. Basidiomycetes to the rescue: Mycoremediation of metal-organics co-contaminated soils
Lea Traxler
5. Morphological responses of filamentous fungi to stressful environmental conditions
Marina Fomina, Geoffrey Michael Gadd, and Olena Gromozova
6. Remediation of toxic metal and metalloid pollution with plant symbiotic fungi
Weiguo Fang
7. Molecular aspects of copper homeostasis in fungi
Dayane Moraes, Mirelle Garcia Silva-Bailão, Alexandre Melo Bailão