About the seminar

In this talk Dr Medina will make a review on the research the Cranfield Applied Mycology Group has been developing in collaboration with colleagues around the world to figure out how the environmental fluctuations that Climate Change is bringing, are impacting the way some fungal pathogens grow but most importantly their ability to produce toxin metabolites known as mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are an important food safety issue around the world as it is estimated that a large proportion of food is contaminated. Thus, how is it going to be in 50 years time remains an important and vital question.

About the speaker

Reader in Food Mycology, Acting Director of Environment and Agrifood

Angel obtained his PhD degree in Microbiology in 2007 at the University of Valencia (Spain). He was awarded the prize for the best PhD Thesis by the University of Valencia based on the novelty and quality of his research in 2008. Subsequently, he worked for almost 2 years in the food industry until he obtained a post-doctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to work in the Applied Mycology Group at Cranfield University (UK). He joined the university in January 2009.

Angel has focused his research interests on the impact that environmental stress has on the functioning of fungi (mainly mycotoxigenic species), the mechanisms used for ecophysiological tolerance, and the molecular basis of secondary metabolite production, especially mycotoxins and other relevant metabolites for industrial applications. He has been developing research on ecophysiology, molecular ecology and modelling of mycotoxigenic fungi growth and toxin production for more than 18 years. Angel has been involved in several projects to improve the storage and increase quality of small grain cereals and groundnuts.

Angel has published 105 peer reviewed Journal papers, 14 book chapters and has an H- factor of 28 (Scopus) and 34 (Google Scholar). In September 2020 he was awarded the British Mycological Society Berkeley Award for his contribution to mycology as early academic.