Fungi: animal slayers, saviours and socialists

This years meeting centres around the interactions between fungi and animals, especially invertebrates. These interactions range among killing of animals by fungi, feeding on fungi by animals, and mutualistic symbiotic nutritional relationships. Many fungi rely on animals for dispersal, and many invertebrates use fruit bodies as breeding grounds. The meeting will be wide-ranging and will hopefully include topics such as: Invertebrate grazers change fungal behaviour; Fungus killer of insects – biocontrol; Cordyceps and Hypocrella: dramatic killers of invertebrates; the ecology of Conidiobolus spp. and Basidiobolus; insect galls and fungi; Amphibian extinction by Bd; Invertebrate inhabitants of basidiocarps.

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