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New website for Scottish mycology. A new website for Scottish mycology has been launched, with loads of information about fungi in Scotland, Scottish mycologists, conservation of Scottish fungi and much more: http://sites.google.com/site/scottishfungi.

1 – 6 August 2010. 9^th International Mycological Congress. Edinburgh, UK. The congress title is "The Biology of Fungi". The scientific programme will be divided into five themes: cell biology, biochemstry and physiology [chair Prof. Gero Steinberg]; environment, ecology and interactions [chair Prof. Lynne Boddy]; evolution, biodiversity and systematics [chair Prof. Pedro Crous]; fungal pathogenesis and disease control [chair Prof. Alistair Brown]; genomics, genetics and molecular biology [chair Dr Paul Dyer]. Forty-five symposia are planned, on the following topics:

1. Ascomycete systematics;
2. Basidiomycete biodiversity, ecology and mechanisms of host interaction;
3. Beyond sequence - applied genomics;
4. Biocontrol with fungi;
5. Cell biology of infection;
6. Comparative evolutionary genomics and the Fungal Tree of Life;
7. Cryptic species and speciation;
8. Cytoskeleton and motors;
9. Ecology of invasive and threatened species;
10. Emerging fungal diseases and potential pandemics;
11. Endocytosis and exocytosis;
12. Environmental sensing and responses;
13. Exploitation of fungi: biofuels and beyond;
14. Evolutionary adaptation of fungal pathogens to their human host;
15. Evolutionary genetics of sex in fungi;
16. Fungal barcoding;
17. Fungal effectors and host manipulation;
18. Fungal epigenetics;
19. Fungal interactions with microbes;
20. Fungal recycling matters: from enzymes to communities;
21. Fungal RNA-regulatory processes;
22. Fungal Tree of Life: linking genomics to physiology and morphology;
23. Fungi and global change 1: nitrogen enrichment and land use change;
24. Fungi and global change 2: climate change responses;
25. Future strategies for the control of fungal diseases;
26. Genomics of fungal-plant symbioses;
27. Hyphal networks: mechanisms, ecology and modelling;
28. Living on the edge: fungi at extremes;
29. Origin and co-evolution of lichen and mycorrhizal fungi with plants;
30. Population genetics: from single cell to community;
31. Programmed cell death and autophagy;
32. Revealing true fungal diversity - metagenomics;
33. Rhythmic fungal biology;
34. Rusts: taxonomy, host specificity and geographical distribution;
35. Secondary metabolism;
36. Secret world of endophytes;
37. Signalling and development;
38. Stress responses, fungal development and pathogenicity;
39. Systems biology: functional genomics to molecular networks and systems;
40. The dynamic fungal cell;
41. The emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs;
42. The fungal nucleus;
43. The fungal-plant interface in mycorrhizal and lichen associations;
44. Tropical mycology;
45. 200 anniversary of the hypha.