BMS Autumn Open meeting
17th November 2012
Wood Decay Fungi:
more than just a load of rotters
10:00-10:30 Registration, coffee & tea,
10:30-11:00 A lot of rot: from standing tree to complete decay on the forest floor
Lynne Boddy (Cardiff University)
11:00-11:30 Serpula lacrimans and other fungi in buildings
Sarah Watkinson (Oxford University)
11:30-12:00 The secret life of Christmas trees: molecular ecology of wood-decaying fungi
Dmitry Schigel (Helsinki, Finland)
12:00-14:00 Lunch break & time to visit the Gardens
13:00-14:00 BMS AGM
14:00-14:30 Conservation biology of wood decay fungi
Jan Stenlid (SLU Uppsala, Sweden)
14:30-15:00 What is present affects what is to come
Jen Hiscox (Cardiff University)
15:00-15:30 What can citizen science tell us about wood-inhabiting fungi?
Jacob Heilmann-Claussen (Copenhagen)
15:30-16:00 What -omics can tell us about wood decay fungi
Dan Eastwood (Swansea University)
16.00 Tea and end
Held in partnership with The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew