
Special Interest Group meetings
All of the Special Interest Group meetings will be held on Sunday, 1 August 2010 prior to the IMC9 Opening Ceremony. Please register for the SIG meetings via the online registration form.
Sunday, 1 August 2010: 10:00-12:30
- Anaerobic fungi: Neocallimastigomycota
- Bioluminescent fungi: their biology and use as experimental tools
- Cryptic speciation in lichen forming fungi
- Ecological role of hyphal structures in interactions between fungi and other organisms
- Education in mycology
- Evolution and biodiversity of basal lineages of fungi
- Biology, biodiversity, evolution and systematics of the Erysiphales
- Filamentous fungi as model systems in eukaryotic cell biology
- Food mycology
- Fungal photobiology
- Mathematical modeling of fungal growth and function
- Mycoviruses
Sunday, 1 August 2010: 13:30-16:00
- Gene expression in fungi
- Gene knock-out and knock-down technologies for fungi the molecular tool box
- Geomycology
- Modelling fungal colonies and communities
- Molecular diagnostics of fungi/novel techniques in detection of fungi from environment
- Mycology in Africa: successes and challenges in a developing continent
- Post-genomic approaches to understanding interactions between fungi and their environment
- Biology of clinically important zygomycetes
- The fungal cell wall
- Colletotrichum: Species, ecology and interactions



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