Special Interest Group Meeting

Modelling Fungal Colonies and Communities

Organiser

This workshop will focus on physiological based models of filamentous fungal colony growth and interactions. The workshop will include short lectures describing model formulation of fungal colony growth and interactions that incorporate key physiological process but are scalable to look at communities of fungi. The lectures will also explore experimental approaches for analysing community structures to suitably inform theoretical models. The sessions will demonstrate how we can determine links between environment and genotype and link the activities of individuals to community scale patterns. We will outline the challenges for testing and validating the model results and discuss future areas in which the models can be exploited. This will be an interactive workshop with a focus on sharing ideas and modelling approaches among all participants.

Programme

Introduction
Dr Nia White, University of Abertay Dundee

Modelling fungal colonies and communities in wood and soil systems
Dr Ruth Falconer, University of Abertay Dundee

X-ray submicron tomography for the study of fungal dynamics in complex environments: state-of-the-art, opportunities and limitations
Dr Jan van den Bulcke, University of Ghent

Consequences on fungal invasion of synergistic effects in fungal growth
Dr F-J. Perez-Reche, University of Cambridge

Future directions for modelling fungi
Dr Jim Bown and Dr Adam Sampson, University of Abertay Dundee and University of Kent