EUROPEAN MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Congresses of European Mycologists
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1. BRUSSELS, Belgium, 15-22 September 1956 (as "Première Session Européene de Mycologie"). People. President of the Congress: G. Malençon. Organizing Committee chaired by: P. Heinemann. About 200 participants from 15 countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, UK). Programme. [not known]. Excursions. To Campine and the Ardennes. Results. "Rules and Recommendations on European Sessions of Mycology" were adopted and published in Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 73: xxix-xxxiii, 1957. Literature. Haas, H.; Spat, H. (1956). Erste Europäische Mykologentagung in Brussel vom 15-22 Sept. 1956. Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde 22: 90-91. Heinemann, P. (1957). Première Session Européenne de Mycologie, Belgique 1956. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 73: xix-l. Pilát, A. (1957). I. sjezd Evropských mykologů, Belgie 1956. Česká Mykologie 11 (1): 1-12.
2. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, 28 August - 4 September 1960. People. President of the Congress: K. Lohwag. Organizing Committee chaired by: A. Pilát. 208 participants from 17 countries (including: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK, USA). Programme. [not known]. Excursions. Five one-day excursions. Post-congress excursions to the High Tatras (51 participants) and Low Tatras (23 participants). Results. Committee for Mapping European Higher Fungi established. Literature. Pilát, A.; Svrček, M. (1961). Druhý sjezd Evropských mykologů v Československu 1960. Česká Mykologie 15 (1): 1-12.
3. GLASGOW, Scotland, 1-7 September 1963. People. President of the Congress: M.A. Donk. Organizing Committee chaired by: S.A. Hutchinson. 213 participants from 16 countries (including: Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, UK). Programme. Symposium on Gasteromycetes. One general paper session. Meeting of the Committee for Mapping European Higher Fungi. Excursions. Five one-day excursions (Dougalston Estate and Craigmaddie Woods; Balloch Park and Rossdhu; Rannoch; Flanders Moss, Cadzow Park and Ben Nenin; Ben More Estate). One post-congress excursion (7-13 September) based at Strathpeffer, near Inverness. Literature. Kotlaba, F.; Pilát, A. (1964). III sjezd Evropských mykologů, Skotsko 1963. Česká Mykologie 18 (1): 1-6. Montgomery, N. (1964). The Third European Mycological Congress, Glasgow 31 August - 7 September 1963. News Bulletin of the British Mycological Society 21: 5-6.
4. WARSAW, Poland, 31 August - 6 September 1966. People. President of the Congress: G. Malençon. Honorary President of the Congress: J. Kochman. Organizing Committee chaired by: A. Skirgiełło. 150 participants from 24 countries (including: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USSR, Yugoslavia). Programme. Three sessions (Taxonomy & Mycogeography, Ecology, Physiology). Excursions. A one-day excursion to a Polish national park. A post-congress excursion to middle Poland (7-13 September, 59 participants). Results. Changes in the "Rules and Recommendations..." were made in respect of congress languages (p. 10); the term Session was changed to Congrèss. A resolution appealing for protection of fungi was adopted. Literature. Anon. (1966). Compte-rendu du IV-ème Congrès des Mycologues Européens. Warszawa 1966. Acta Mycologica 4 (2): 181-198 [with lists of participants and fungi collected]. Kotlaba, F.; Lazebníček, J. (1967). IV sjezd Evropských mykologů, Polsko 1966. Česká Mykologie 21 (1): 54-59. Симонян, С.А. [Simonian, S.A.] (1967) [IVth European Congress of Mycology in Warsaw]. Микология и Фитопатология [Mycology and Plant Pathology] 1 (3): 260-261 [in Russian].
5. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 18-25 September 1970. People. President of the Congress: J.A. Nannfeldt. Organizing Committee chaired by: M. Lange. 83 participants from 18 countries (including: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, UK, USA). Programme. Two business meetings. One lecture session with 14 contributions. Excursions. A one-day pre-congress excursion near Copenhagen (18 September). A one-day excursion to Grib Sø four five-day excursions (21-25 September). Literature. Lange, M. (1971). V European Mycological Congress in Denmark 18-25 September 1970. Botaniska Tidskrift 66 (1-2): 183-184. Rypáček, V. (1971). V sjezd Evropských mykologů, Dánsko 1970. Česká Mykologie 25 (3): 187-190.
6. AVIGNON, France, 19-26 October 1974. People. President of the Congress: A.F.M. Reijnders. Organizing Committee chaired by: H. Romagnesi. 250 participants from 18 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Yugoslavia). Programme. [not known]. Excursions. Three one-day excursions. Literature. Anon. (1975). Le Sixième Congrès Européen de Mycologie. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 91 (3): 515-580.
7. BUDAPEST, Hungary, 17-24 September 1978. People. President of the Congress: G. Malençon. Organizing Committee chaired by: A. Madas. 154 participants from 23 countries (including: Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK, USA, Yugoslavia). Programme. [not known]. Excursions. A one-day excursion (Bugaczpuszta Reserve). A two-day excursion (22-23 September, to natural parks). Literature. Гарибова, Л.В.; Лекомцева, С.Н.; Успенская, Г.Д. [Garibova, L.V.; Lekomtseva, S.N.; Uspenskaya, G.D.] (1981). [The 7th European Congress of Mycologists] Микология и Фитопатология [Mycology and Plant Pathology] 15 (1): 73-74 [in Russian].
8. BOLOGNA, Italy, 23-29 September 1981. People. Presidents of the Congress: G. Malençon & A. Skirgiełło. Organizing Committee chaired by: G. Govi. 140 participants from 21 countries (including: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Yugoslavia). Programme. 74 papers. Excursions. The Appennines between Bologna and Florence. Mesola near Ferrara. Literature. Kubička, J. (1982). VIII. Kongres Evropských mykologů, Bologna, 23-29 IX 1981. Česká Mykologie 36 (3): 188-190. Anon. (1982). L'8 Congresso Europeo de Micologia. Micologia Italiana 10 (3): 39-42.
9. OSLO, Norway, 15-21 August 1985. People. President of the Congress: A. Skirgiełło. Organizing Committee chaired by: F.-E. Eckblad. 175 participants from 25 countries (including: Canada, Czechoslovakia, India, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, UK, USA). Programme. Opening plenary lecture "The Changing Mycoflora of the Netherlands" (E. Arnolds). About 50 papers and 27 posters. A fungus exhibition. Excursions. Two pre-congress excursions (Kongsvoll, in the Dovre Mountains, and Finse, the highest station on the Oslo-Bergen railway). Two one-day excursions (Nordmarka and Fredrikstad). Three post-congress excursions (Biri, north of Gjøvik, Stange, south of Hamar, and Kongsvoll). Results. European Committee for Protection of Fungi established. Literature. [not known].
10. TALLINN, Estonia, August 1989. People. President of the Congress: D.L. Hawksworth. Organizing Committee chaired by: M. Gorlenko. Local Organizer: E. Parmasto. 245 participants from 20 countries (including: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK). Programme. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. A one-day excursion to an Estonian National Park. Advertisements for Congress. April 1988. July 1988. Results. European Committee for Protection of Fungi renamed European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Literature. [author(s) not known]. (1989). Abstracts. X Congress of European Mycologists. Scripta Mycologica 17: [pagination not known]. Anon. (1990).
11. KEW, UK, 7-11 September 1992. People. President of the Congress: E. Parmasto. Organizing Committee chaired by: D.N. Pegler. 154 participants from 29 countries (Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Eire, Estonia, Finland, France, FYROM, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA). Programme. 23 papers. Sessions on "Fungal Recording & Mapping", "Fungi in European Ecosystems" and "Conservation of European Fungi". Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. Two pre-congress excursions (both at Ambleside, Cumbria). Two half-day excursions (Ruislip Woods and Windsor Great Park). Two post-congress excursions (Lyndhurst, New Forest and Stroud, Gloucestershire). Advertisement for Congress. May 1992. Results. Revised Statutes were prepared for future Congresses of European Mycologists. Literature. Pegler, D.N.; Boddy, L.; Ing, B.; Kirk, P.M. [eds] (1993). Fungi of Europe: Investigation, Recording & Mapping 322 pp., UK, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, ISBN 0-947643-54-0. Pegler, D.N. (1993).
12. WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, 3-7 September 1995. People. President of the Congress: E.J.M. Arnolds. Organizing Committee chaired by: [not known]. xxx participants from xx countries (including: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA). Programme. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. [not known]. Literature. [not known].
13. ALCALÁ DE HENARES, Spain, 21-25 September 1999. People. President of the Congress: [not known]. Organizing Committee chaired by: [not known]. xxx participants from xx countries (Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK). Programme. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. A one-day excursion (La Alcarria, Guadalajara). Results. A working group was appointed to examine the case for a body to represent mycology at a European level. Literature. [not known].
14. KATSIVELI, CRIMEA, Ukraine, 22-27 September, 2003. People. President of the Congress: I.O. Dudka. Organizing Committee chaired by: I.O. Dudka. Local Organizer: V.P. Isikov. 155 participants from 33 countries (Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA). Programme. Opening plenary lecture "International Mycology Meetings: why are they important?" (T. Schumacher). Symposia on "Applied & Experimental Mycology", "Fungal Biodiversity & Evolution", "Fungal Conservation", "Medical & Medicinal Mycology and Fungal Cultivation", "Fungal Ecology", "Fungal Systematics, uniting the traditions of east and west", "Mycology in eastern Europe", "Mapping & Geography of Fungi". 59 oral presentations, 103 posters. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Satellite meeting of the International Subcommission on Trichoderma & Hypocrea. Excursions. A one-day excursion (Ai Petri mountain), and three post-congress excursions (Eastern Crimea, Central Crimea, and Kiev). Advertisement for Congress. The first Congress of European Mycologists to have a website. Results. The European Mycological Association was established at this Congress. Literature. Andrianova, T.V.; Minter, D.W. [eds] (2003). XIV CEM Abstracts 130 pp., Kiev, St Druk, ISBN 966-96382-0-8. Дудка, І.О. [Dudka, I.O.] (2003). XIV Конгрес Европейських микологів. [XIV Congress of European Mycologists] Український Ботанічний Журнал
[Ukrainian Botanical Journal] 60 (6): 740-747 [in Ukrainian]. Minter, D.W. [ed.] (2003). Mycology in Ukraine, a CD Commemorating the XIV Congress of European Mycologists, Katsiveli, Yalta, Crimea, 22-27 September 2003. compact disk containing 7982 HTML-format pages & 7223 GIF-format maps. UK, Middlesex, Isleworth; PDMS Publishing, ISBN 0-9540169-5-5.
15. ST PETERSBURG, Russia, 16-21 September, 2007. The first Congress of European Mycologists organized under the auspices of the European Mycological Association. People. President of the Congress: D.W. Minter. Organizing Committee chaired by: A.E. Kovalenko. Organizing Committee Secretary: N. Psurtseva. 291 participants from 40 countries (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA). Programme. Opening plenary lecture "The Naming of Fungi is a Difficult Matter" (D.L. Hawksworth). Symposia on "Developmental Mycology", "Fungal Biotechnology", "Fungal Diversity and Conservation", "Fungi in Ecosystems", "Medicinal and Medical Mycology", "Phytopathogenic Fungi", "Plant-Fungus Interactions", "Systematics, Evolution & Genomics of Fungi", "Tools in Mycology", "Toxigenic Micromycetes in Europe", 118 oral presentations, 216 posters. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Workshop on Toxigenic Micromycetes in Europe. Satellite meeting 100th Anniversary of the Jaczewski Laboratory (VIZR). Excursions. A one-day excursion to Komarova, and one post-congress excursion. Literature. Kovalenko, A.E.; Melnik, V.A.; Vedenyapina, E.G.; Zmitrovich, I.V. [eds] (2007). XV CEM Abstracts 303, [i-iv] pp., St Petersburg, Komarov Botanical Institute, ISBN 5-201-1138-6. Popov, E.S.; Morozova, O.V.; Kotkova, V.M.; Novozhilov, Yu.K.; Zhurbenko, M.P.; Zmitrovich, I.V.; Kovalenko, A.E. (2007). Preliminary List of Fungi and Myxomycetes of Leningrad Region. Compiled for scientific excursion in frame of the XVCEM. 52 pp., 3 maps. St Petersburg, Komarov Botanical Institute. ISBN 5-201-11139-4.
16. HALKIDIKI, Greece, 19-23 September, 2011. The second Congress of European Mycologists organized under the auspices of the European Mycological Association. People. President of the Congress: D.W. Minter. Organizing Committee chaired by: S. Diamandis. Organizing Committee Secretary: Ch. Perlerou. 230 participants from 39 countries (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, FYROM, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA). Programme. Plenary lectures "Alien and Invasive Fungi: what can we expect from a changing climate?" (J. Stenlid); "A New Imaging Nanotechnology for Mycology" (L. Kock); "Fungal Conservation: insights from population biology and the impacts of past, present and future human land use" (A. Dahlberg); "Fungal Evolution: divergence and adaptation" (J. Taylor); "Fungal Families: morphology, phylogeny and conflict resolution" (P.F. Cannon); "MtDNA and rDNA: two different evolutionary lines combined for genetic differentiation, taxonomy and phylogeny in ascomycetes" (M.A. Typas); "Outdoor Airspora: patterns, prevalence & impacts" (C. Rogers). Symposia on "Aeromycology", "Alien and Invasive Fungi: Biological Control", "Application of IUCN Criteria to Fungi", "Conservation of Fungi", "Developmental Mycology", "Edible and Medicinal Fungi", "Fungal Biotechnology", "Fungal Distribution and Diversity", "Fungal Genetics and Genomics", "Fungi in Ecosystems: effects of climate change", "Fungus-Plant Interactions: mycorrhizal systems", "Insect-Fungus Associations", "Plant Pathogenic Fungi", "Systematics and Evolution of Fungi", 126 oral presentations, 111 posters. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Workshop on Conservation of Ascomycetes. Excursions. One-day excursions to Mount Holomon (broadleaved forests) and Parthenon Village (Mediterranean pines). One post-congress excursion to the mountains of Rhodope. Literature. Diamandis, S.; Topalidou, E. [eds] (2011). XVI CEM Abstracts 324 pp., Thessaloniki, Vassilika, NAGREF-Forest Research Institute.
17. MADEIRA, Portugal, 20-25 September 2015. The third Congress of European Mycologists organized under the auspices of the European Mycological Association. People. President of the Congress: D.W. Minter. Organizing Committee chaired by: João Baptista-Ferreira. Organizing Committee Secretary: I. Melo. 143 participants from 32 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom). Programme. Plenary lectures "Congresses, the EMA, and infrastructure", "Host shifts in fungi due to climate change", "20 years monitoring lichens under global environmental change", "Searching for generality in multi-trophic fungal interactions: implications for invasions and agriculture", "Alien invasive pathogens threatening Europe's forest ecosystems", "Current status of truffle cultivation: recent results and future perspectives". Symposia on "Applied mycology and fungal biotechnology", "Environment, ecology and interactions", "Cell biology, biochemistry and physiology", "Environment, ecology and interactions", "Biodiversity informatics and fungal data", "Fungal pathogenesis and disease control", "Evolution, biodiversity and systematics", "Field mycology and conservation", "Genomics, genetics and molecular biology", "Fungal conservation", 79 oral presentations, 88 posters. Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. One-day excursions to Vereda dos Balcões or along the Levada do Furado. Claudia Perini, former Secretary, has published a memoir in the Italian Journal of Mycology. Literature. Baptista-Ferreira, J. [ed.] (2015). XVII CEM Abstracts 162 pp., Funchal, Madeira, digital publication [download]. Perini, C. (2016). The memorable XVII Congress of the European Mycological Association (EMA) Funchal (Madeira, Portugal, September 20th- 25th 2015). doi: 10.6092/issn.2531-7342/6018 [download].
18. WARSAW & BIAŁOWIEŻA, Poland, 16-21 September 2019. The fourth Congress of European Mycologists organized under the auspices of the European Mycological Association. People. President of the Congress: D.W. Minter. Organizing Committee chaired by: Magdalena Frąc. Organizing Committee Secretaries: J. Pawłowska & M. Wrzosek. 272 participants from 52 countries (Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA). Programme. Keynote lectures "Evolution of mycorrhizal genomes and transcriptomes", "Discovering the extent of fungal diversity", "Geomycology: metals and minerals, bioremediation and biorecovery", "Evolutionary origin and stability of cultivation of Termitomyces by termites", "Comparative genomics of smut fungi to bridge the gap between systematics, ecology and function", "Time to re-think fungal ecological niches? Endophytic abilities in ectomycorrhizal taxa", "Białowieża forest: yesterday, today, tomorrow", "Trees ancient and young: a veritable feast for wood decay fungi". Public lecture "Mycology: a recent weapon in the forensic armoury". Plenary/parallel sessions on "From genome to function", "Taxonomy and systematics", "Fungi in biotechnology", "Fungal interactions", "Medical mycology", "Fungal diversity", "Fungi in primeval forests and other natural habitats", "Hypogeous mycorrhizal fungi", "Data", "Fungal conservation", "Offered presentations 1", "Offered presentations 2", 87 oral presentations, 176 posters. Workshops on "Global fungal red-listing" and "Biology of polypores". Open meeting of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. Excursions. Part-day excursions to Białowieża National Park forests, including the strictly protected reserve. Literature. Mleczko, P. [ed.] (2019). XVIII CEM Abstracts 293 pp., Warsaw, Polish Mycological Society, ISBN 978-83-940504-5-0, digital publication [download].
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