Prof. Juan Carlos Arguelles is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Murcia. He conducted research at the Biomedical Research Institute of CSIC (Madrid) and the Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and was a visiting professor at the Janssens Institute of Genetics at the same university. He holds a degree in Biology from the University of Murcia. His research interests are signaling and stress response in pathogenic yeasts, mechanisms of antifungal action, and new natural products.