Research by Martenlab studies stress response in fungi
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Research team led by UMBC’s Mark Marten studies how fungal cells respond to stress, repair broken cell walls

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 8:44 AM | MEGAN HANKS 

Mark Marten, professor and chair of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering, is collaborating with researchers at the University of Connecticut and the University of Manitoba to study how fungal cells respond to stress and repair their cell walls. Marten and his collaborators identified three coordinated pathways involved in the response to cell wall stress in filamentous fungi. 

Numerous species of filamentous fungi are pathogens that can make people sick, especially people who are immunocompromised. Different species of fungi play an important role in the development of pharmaceuticals and enzymes, and agriculture, where fungi can help improve the quality of soil and make nutrients more readily available for crops, explains Marten. By understanding how cells work and respond to stress, researchers can reverse-engineer processes that could have a broad range of applications.

Understanding how cells respond to stress

Marten and his collaborators Ranjan Srivastava, University of Connecticut, and Steven Harris, University of Manitoba, recently received over $1.2 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further explore how filamentous fungi repair their cell walls when exposed to stressors. This work will build upon previous NSF-supported research completed by the team. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics has just published their findings on critical cellular processes triggered when cells respond to environmental stress. Cynthia Chelius, Ph.D. ‘19, chemical engineering, is the first author on the paper.

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Congratulations to Utsav Shashvatt for the first place winner for the first CSAWWA virtual poster competition! 


All three winners are 

 

1st Place – Utsav Shashvatt (UMBC, Recovery of Ammonium, Phosphorus, and Potassium from Source-Separated Urine Using Donnan Dialysis)

2nd Place – Liu Jiang (UMD College Park, Understanding the Role of Microbiological Processes in Removing PFAS from Environment)

3rd Place – Xiaojue Chen (UMD College Park, Adaptation and Acclimation of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Process to Environmental Conditions and Inhibitors)


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