The Third International Symposium on Fungal Stress - ISFUS

Abstract

Stress is a normal part of life for fungi, which can survive in environments considered inhospitable or hostile for other organisms. Due to the ability of fungi to respond to, survive in, and transform the environment, even under severe stresses, many researchers are exploring the mechanisms that enable fungi to adapt to stress. The International Symposium on Fungal Stress (ISFUS) brings together leading scientists from around the world who research fungal stress. This article discusses presentations given at the third ISFUS, held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil in 2019, thereby summarizing the state-of-the-art knowledge on fungal stress, a field that includes microbiology, agriculture, ecology, biotechnology, medicine, and astrobiology.

Keywords: Agricultural mycology; Fungal stress mechanisms and responses; Industrial mycology; Medical mycology.

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Speakers of the third ISFUS in 2019 held in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil. Front row from left to right: Drauzio E. N. Rangel, Amanda E. A. Rangel, Alene Alder-Rangel. Second row from left to right: Thiago Olitta Basso (Brazil), Graeme M. Walker (UK), David E. Levin (USA), Gilberto U.L. Braga (Brazil), Irina Druzhinina (Russia/China), Julia Schumacher (Germany), Rocco L. Mancinelli (USA), Anna Gorbushina (Russia/Germany), Natalia Requena (Spain/Germany), Laura Selbmann (Italy), and Luis Corrochano (Spain). Third row from left to right: Alexander Idnurm (Australia), Jesús Aguirre (Mexico), Gustavo H. Goldman (Brazil), Chris Koon Ho Wong (Macau), Claudia B. L. Campos (Brazil), Oded Yarden (Israel), Martin Kupiec (Israel), Deborah Bell-Pedersen (USA), Christina M. Kelliher (USA), Michelle Momany (USA), Alexandra C. Brand (UK), and Jan Dijksterhuis (The Netherlands). Fourth row from left to right: Tamás Emri (Hungary), Ekaterina Dadachova (Russia/Canada), István Pócsi (Hungary), Alistair J. P. Brown (UK), Geoffrey M. Gadd (UK), Reinhard Fischer (Germany), Luis Larrondo (Chile), Guilherme T. P. Brancini (Brazil), Gerhard Braus (Germany), Florian F. Bauer (South Africa), Mikael Molin (Sweden), Radamés J.B. Cordero (USA), and John E. Hallsworth (UK).

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Meet the speakers banner. This banner was printed on a poster and placed in the auditorium so everyone could remember their preferred speaker’s names for future scientific discussion. Below the speakers’ pictures are the logos of the grant agencies and sponsors.

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Logo of the third International Symposium on Fungal Stress (ISFUS-2019). This figure illustrates some of the stress parameters that fungi are subjected to such as ionizing radiation, acidic and alkaline environments, hypoxic or anoxic conditions, poisons in general such as genotoxic and oxidative products, UV radiation from the sun, pollution from industry and agriculture, salt stress, nutritive stress, and heat from solar radiation and other sources.

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Speakers at the Vicentina Aranha Park, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.

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Speakers and participants holding hands and sharing happy moments.

Fig. 6.

Elsevier Student Awards. From left to right: Alene Alder-Rangel, Vitor Martins de Andrade, Brigida de Almeida Amorim Spagnol, and Drauzio E. N. Rangel.

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Journal of Fungi Student Award. From left to right: Alene Alder-Rangel, Drauzio E. N. Rangel, Marlene Henríquez Urrutia, and Luis Larrondo.

Fig. 8.

Award given to Drauzio E. N. Rangel during the closing ceremony of the Third International Symposium on Fungal Stress. A) Drauzio E. N. Rangel, John Hallsworth, and Luis Corrochano. B) Drauzio E. N. Rangel, Alene Alder-Rangel, and Luis Corrochano. C) Glass globe inscribed with the words: “Awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Mycology to Professor Drauzio E. N. Rangel at III International Symposium on Fungal Stress & conferred by the Organizing Committee, May 2019, (São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil)”.

Fig. 9.

Participants and speakers of the Third ISFUS in the excursion to the beach in São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil: A) outside the excursion bus and B) on the boat.