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XIX Congress of European Mycologists

new The Post-Congress meeting on the Cooperation of Mycological Groups & Societies in Europe promoted the exchange of experiences and ideas on this topic so paramount to Mycology. The meeting summary is available, and a list of Mycological societies is being built and can be viewed and commented on (for example, to suggest new entries).

new Awards at the XIX Congress of European Mycologists:

Honorary Membership to David Minter, UK
Founders' Award to Dmitry Schigel, GBIF
Congress Medal to Paola Bonfante, Italy
Congress Medal to Silvano Onofri, Italy
Certificate of Excellence to Giuseppe Venturella, Italy
Certificate of Excellence to Han A. B. Wösten, The Netherlands
Certificate of Excellence to Vincent A. Robert, The Netherlands
Winners of the competition Mycology by Young Scientists: Beniamin Abramczyk, Poland, and Katarzyna Stojek, Poland
Winners of the Congress Poster competition, Jury Prize: Michaela Strmisková, Marek Bárta, Miriam Kadasi Horáková & Katarina Pastirčáková, Slovak Republic

Second prize of the Congress Poster competition, Jury Prize, ex-æquo:

Miriana Bortolot, Sonia Mazzarino, Alan Pizzinat, Bruno Sacchi, Silvia Perotto, Elena Martino & Alessandra Salvioli di Fossalunga, Italy, and

Monika Urbaniak, Elsie Ayamoh Enow, Sylwia Ryszczyńska, Agnieszka Waśkiewicz, Łukasz Stępień, Poland
Winners of the Congress Poster competition, Congress Participants’ Prize: Sylwia Salamon, Polina Havrysh, Lidia Błaszczyk, Poland

All abstracts can be consulted here.

new Governing Committee Dr. Izabela Kałucka has been reelected EMA President for the the new term 2023–2027, together with the following officers: Irmgard Greilhuber (Vice-President), Katerina Krusevska (Secretary), Giuseppe Venturella (Treasurer), Veronica Spinelli (Membership Secretary), Robert Logar (Meetings Secretary), Paulo Oliveira (Editor) and Susana C. Gonçalves (Conservation).

new XX Congress of European Mycologists to take place in 2027, in Tartu, Estonia. See the presentation.

(more news coming really soon!)

The International Mycological Congress has been announced for August 11-15, 2024, in Maastricht, The Netherlands. This World congress, jointly organised by the International Mycological Association, the Dutch Mycological Society and the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, will include keynote lectures, bridging sessions and workshops in six themes:

Cell biology, biochemistry and physiology
Environment, ecology and interactions
Evolution, biodiversity and systematics
Fungal pathogenesis and disease control
Genomics, genetics and molecular biology
Applied Mycology and Nomenclature

Proposals for symposia and workshops are welcome until September 22, 2023. Please visit the congress website for further details. Concurrently, one can read the first issue of the IM12 newsletter.

The XX International Botanical Congress will take place on July 21-27, 2024 in Madrid, Spain. Featuring 31 topics including Mycology and Lichenology, Ecophysiology, Conservation Biology, Ecology and Communities, Restoration Ecology, Global Change Ecology, Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics, and Comparative Genomics/Transcriptomics, there are plenty of points of interest for mycologists. Also of note is the Nomenclature Section preceding the congress, that will work on the revision of the Nomenclature Code (currently the Shenzhen Code, 2018). Please visit the congress website for further details.

Horn o'Plenty Recently departed
– Francesco Bellù, Italian taxonomist and educator, July 26^th 2022. – Alexander Kovalenko, Russian mycologist and leading figure, December 10^th 2021.

The EMA supports FaunaFloraFunga. It is a proposal to perceive fungi, animals and plants with equal status in legal frameworks for agriculture and conservation. The FFF website has the full statement and a form to sign up in support.

We are unthinkable without fungi, yet seldom do we think about them. It is an ignorance we can't afford to sustain.

The statement originators are Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation, Harvard University Associate, IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee), Merlin Sheldrake (author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures) and César Rodríguez-Garavito (New York University School of Law).

earlier announcements

The EMA has the following objectives defined in its Constitution:

	to promote study of fungi;
	to disseminate knowledge and information about fungi;
	to promote conservation of fungi;
	to promote socially responsible handling of fungi (for example in medicine, plant and animal pathology, quarantine and pharmaceutical research);
	to establish and foster relations between those working towards such objectives, through meetings, electronic media, publications, and by promoting personal contacts, collaboration and the exchange of ideas and information;
	to improve the infrastructure of mycology within Europe;
	to provide European-level input to the International Mycological Association, and other international bodies and initiatives.

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