Aug

05

MSA Annual Scientific Meeting

Fairbanks - Alaska

Mycological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting

 2-5 August 2011 in Fairbanks, Alaska 

Theme: “Fungi at high altitudes and latitudes

”,This will include six symposia:

• “Mechanisms of Fungal-Plant Interactions: Perspectives from the Interface of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Genomics” (co-chairs Betsy Arnold and  François Lutzoni)
• “Molecular Ecology and Biodiversity of Arctic and Boreal Fungi” (co-chairs Sarah Bergemann and József Geml)
• “Fungal Contribution to Organic Matter Storage and Sequestration in Soils” (co- chairs Mark Waldrop and Jack McFarland)
• “Diversification of Fungi” (co-chairs Manfred Binder and Martin Ryberg)
• “Fungal Population Genomics”  (chair John Taylor)
• “Pioneering Techniques for Studying Fungi - Bringing New Tools to the Bench” (co-chairs Susan Kaminsky and Barbara Illman)

 See these links for further details on the MSA symposium program schedule, (http://msa.alaska.edu/schedule/index.php), abstract submission (http://msa.alaska.edu/registration/abstract_submission.ph), general meeting information (http://msa.alaska.edu/), Karling lecturer (http://msa.alaska.edu/schedule/karling_lecture.php) and registration (http://msa.alaska.edu/registration/index.php