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On Friday 28th of November the autumn meeting of the section Mycology will be held at the Westerdijk Institute in Utrecht starting at 10.00.

Coffee and cake will be there in advance when you register from 9.30 on. The program starts to take shape.

NB! The parking place of the Westerdijk/Hubrecht complex has restricted capacity. There is a large parking garage on short walking distance of the Westerdijk Institute. Parking for one day is 6 Euro’s. How to reach The Westerdijk Institute: http://www.westerdijkinstitute.nl/DefaultInfo.aspx?Page=ContactUs

 

Lunch will be free!

Registration helps us to estimate how many lunches we need to order. Please register via this link!  

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The meeting is entitled: “Fungi and Death”

09.30 - 10.00 Arrival, coffee and registration at reception desk.

10.00 - 10.10 Jan Dijksterhuis (Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht): Introduction

10.10 - 10.50 Asen Daskalov (CNRS, Bordeaux, France): Fungal cell death.

10.50 - 11.30 Jan van Kan (WUR, Wageningen): You can only die once: The battle over cell death control between a fungus and its plant host.

11.30 - 11.45 MICROPAUSE

11.50 - 12.20 Patricia Wiltshire (Ashtead, UK): The use of mycology in forensic science.

12.20 - 13.00 Emilia Hannula  (Leiden University) and Elly Morriën (University of Amsterdam): Dead material (necromass) as a sink for carbon deposition?  

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.15 Karin Scholtmeijer (WUR, Wageningen): Allorecognition and death in Basidiomycetes

14.15 - 14.30 David Hawksworth (Ashtead, UK): On the development of lichens on tombstones.

14.30 - 14.45 To be announced

14.45 - 15.00 To be announced

15.00 - 15.15 To be announced

15.15 - 15.40 Coffee/tea

15.40 - 15.55 To be announced

15.55 - 16.10 To be announced

16.10 – 16.25 To be announced

16.25 - 16.55 Jan Dijksterhuis (Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht): The beauty of food decay: Fungal stories of transition.  

16.55 - 17.45   Borrel

 

Regards,

the section mycology team (Arthur, Charissa, Duur, George, Jan, Vasilis)