Pedro Henrique Magalhães Fernandes Pais defended his PhD thesis in Biotechnology and Biosciences at Instituto Superior Técnico on the 27th september 2019. During the last years, and under the supervision of Miguel Teixeira from BSRG-iBB, in the scope of Biodata.pt project, Pedro studied the intricacies of the regulatory network that controls drug resistance in the fungus Candida glabrata. The title of his thesis is "Unveiling the complex regulatory network governing antifungal drug resistance in Candida glabrata: from new regulators to new effectors".