Foreword -- 1 The multicolored world of the HSPB family -- 2 Immense implications associated to small stress expression : impacts on human pathologies -- 3 Dynamics-function relationship sof the small Heat shock Proteins -- 4 Insights into how small heat shock proteins bind a great diversity of substrate proteins: a super transformer model -- 5 Model chaperones: small heat shock proteins from plants -- 6 Regulation of the chaperone function of small Hsps -- 7 Redefining the chaperone mechanism of sHsps: not just holdase chaperones -- 8 Everything but the ACD, functional conservation of the non-conserved regions in sHSPs -- 9 HspB6 (Hsp20) as a versatile molecular regulator -- 10 The chloroplast-localized plant sHSP in Arabidopsis thaliana- role of its oligomeric conformation and its translocation into membranes -- 11 Multifunctional roles of crystallin in skeletal and cardiac muscle momeostasis and disease -- 12 Role of small heat shock protein HspB5 in cancer -- 13 Small heat shock proteins and fibrosis -- 14 Neurodegenerative diseases, sex differences and the 27 kDa heat shock protein in the nervous system -- 15 HspB5/B-crystallin in the brain -- 16 Small HSP variants and diseases -- 17 The dynamic duo of small heat proteins and Ifs maintain cell homeostasis, resist cellular stress and enable evolution in cells and tissues -- 18 Regulation of actin-based structure dynamics by HspB proteins and partners -- 19 Heat shock alters keratocyte movement and morphology: exploring a role for HSP17 (HSPB1) -- 20 Reconsidering Old Data: Non-Canonical HspB1 Species and the Enigma of the Cytoskeletal Function of HspB1 -- 21 Role of HSPB8 in the proteases network: from protein synthesis to protein degradation and beyond -- 22 Understanding what small heat shock proteins do for bacterial cells -- 23 How to stabilize both the proteins and the membranes: diverse effects of sHsps in neuro protection -- 24 Small Heat Shock Proteins and Diapause in the Crustacean, Artemia franciscana -- 25 Drosophila small heat shock proteins: an update on their features and functions -- Index.