Special Interest Group Meeting

Geomycology

Organiser

Dr. Anna Rosling, Dept. Forest Mycology and Pathology. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Geomycology includes the activities of fungi in alteration and weathering of rocks and minerals, soil formation, the transformation and accumulation of metals, organic matter decomposition, and nutrient and element cycling.

A key attribute that enables fungi to survive in extreme sub-aerial environments is the ability to form mutualistic symbioses with algae and/or cyanobacteria in lichens, or mycorrhizal symbioses with plant roots.

The session will address the biogeochemical importance of fungi in key areas such as organic and inorganic transformations, nutrient and element cycling, rock and mineral transformations, bioweathering, mycogenic mineral formation, fungal-clay interactions, and metal-fungal interactions.

Speakers

Nick Rosenstock, UC Berkeley, USA
The effects of elevated carbon dioxide on biotic weathering by ectomycorrhizal pine seedlings

Bindschedler Saskia, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland
Implication of fungi in secondary CaCO3 accumulations in soils and caves

Marina Fomina, University of Dundee, Scottland
The effect of Uranium on fungi

Lian Bin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, People’s Republic of China
Weathering of the serpentine and olivine by Aspergillus fumigatus

Katarzyna Turnau, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Nanoparticles - harmful or useful to fungi

Anna Rosling, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Gene expression of induced Goethite dissolution in Serpula lacrymans

Christoffer Berner, Lund University, Sweden
What is the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in apatite weathering?