Symposia and sessions

<

►

>

Download a Detailed Agenda that includes speaker names and presentation titles

Monday, August 3, 2015

Plenary Symposium #1: Diversity and biogeography of mycorrhizal fungi
Keynote lecture by Jim Trappe, Oregon State University, USA and Australia
Session Organizers: Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia, and Kabir Peay, Stanford University, USA
Concurrent Sessions: (4:00-5:30 PM)
1a. Molecular methods for resolving the phylogenies of mycorrhizal fungi
Session organizers: Dirk Redeker, University of Burgundy, France, and Brandon Matheny, University of Tennessee, USA
1b. Roles of mycorrhizal networks for individuals, communities and ecosystems 
Session organizers: David Johnson, University of Aberdeen, UK, and Tom Horton, State University of New York, USA
1c.Bridging palaeomycology and genomics of mycorrhizal fungi 
Organizers: Christine Strullu-Derrien, Natural History Museum, London and Francis Martin, INRA, France

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Plenary Symposium #2: Linking mycorrhizal genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes to their function from individuals to ecosystems
Keynote lecture by Mary Firestone, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Session Organizers: Luisa Lanfranco, University of Torino, Italy, and Anders Tunlid, Lund University, Sweden
Concurrent Sessions: (4:00-5:30 PM)
2a. Strategies to preserve and restore mycorrhizas for sustainable forestry
Session organizers: Francisco Javier Álvarez-Sánchez, UNAM, Mexico, and Hakan Wallander, Lund University, Sweden
2b. Inter-kingdom relationships: mycorrhizal microbiome and food web interactions 
Session organizers: Allison Bennett, Scotland, and Miranda Hart, University of British Columbia, Canada
2c. Novel mycorrhizas
Session organizers: Stan Bellgard, Landcare Research, New Zealand, and Silvia Pressel, Natural History Museum, London

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Plenary Symposium #3:Mycorrhizal movement of matter and energy from crossing membranes to biogeochemical cycles 
Keynote lecture by Paola Bonfante, University of Turin, Italy
Session organizers: R. Michael Miller, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, and Andrew Smith, University of Adelaide, Australia
Concurrent Sessions: (4:00-5:30 PM)
3a. Mycorrhizas and soil carbon sequestration
Session organizers: Bjorn Lindahl, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, and Matthias Rillig, Freie Universität, Berlin
3b. Strategies to manage mycorrhizas for sustainable agriculture
Session organizers: Chantel Hamel; Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada, and Huyuan Feng; Lanzhou University, China
3c. Mycorrhizas as mutualists – what do mycorrhizas teach us about cooperation and host specificity? 
Session organizers: Nhu Nguyen and Peter Kennedy, University of Minnesota, USA, and Jason Hoeksema, University of Mississippi, USA

Friday, August 7, 2015

Plenary Symposium #4: Mycorrhizas and global change
Keynote lecture by Kathleen Treseder, University of California, Irvine, USA
Session organizers:Carlos Urcelay, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and Justine Karst, University of Alberta, Canada
International Mycorrhiza Society Business Meeting
Closing Ceremony and Festivities