PRESIDENT:  Meredith Blackwell Department of Biological Sciences  Louisiana State University  Baton Rouge, LA  USA 70803  Phone: 225-388-8551 or -8485  Fax: 225-388-8459  Email: btblac@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu	SECRETARY-GENERAL: James B. Anderson Department of Botany  Erindale Campus  Univsity of Toronto  Mississauga, ON  Canada L5L 1C6  Phone: 416-828-5362  Fax: 416-828-3792  Email: janderso@credit.erin.utoronto.ca
TREASURER: Nils Hallenberg Department of Systematic Botany  University of Göteborg  Box 461  Göteborg  Sweden SE-405 30  Phone: 46-31-7732659  Fax: 46-31-7732677  Email: nils.hallenberg@systbot.gu.se	PAST PRESIDENT:  Franz Oberwinkler Chair of Special Botany and Mycology  Director of the Botanical Garden  Institute of Botany, Rm 107  University of Tübingen  Tübingen  Germany  Email:

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HONORARY PRESIDENTS:

 

Geoffrey C. Ainsworth United Kingdom  (died 25 October 1998)	David L. Hawksworth 114 Finchley Lane  Hendon, London NW4 1DG  United Kingdom  Email: myconova@terra.es
Karl Esser Allgemeine Botanik  Ruhr-Universität Bochum  D-44780 Bochum  Germany  Phone: +49-234-32-22211  Fax: +49-234-32-14211  Email: karl.esser@ruhr-uni-bochum.de http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Karl.Esser/	John Webster  12 Countess Wear Road  Exeter  EX2 6LG  United Kingdom  Email: J.Webster@exeter.ac.uk

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VICE-PRESIDENTS:

 

Cletus P. Kurtzman Microbial Properties Research  NCAUR, ARS, USDA  1815 N. University Street  Peoria, IL 61604-3999  USA  Email: kurtzman@ncaur.usda.gov	Leif Ryvarden Department of Botany  University of Oslo P.O. Box 1045, Blindern  N-0316 Oslo  Norway  Email: leif.ryvarden@bio.uio.no
Anxious J. Masuka Kutsaga Research Company (Pvt) Ltd. Airport Ring Road  PO Box 1909  Harare  Zimbabwe  Email: Anxious_Masuka@kutsaga.co.zw	Junta Sugiyama Prof. Emeritus  Department of Botany  The University Museum  The University of Tokyo  3-1 Hongo 7 chrome  Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 -0033  Japan  Email:  ujsugi@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

Régis Courtecuisse Département de Botanique  Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques  Université de Lille II. B.P. 83  F-59006 Lille Cedex  France  Email: Regis.Courtecuisse@phare.univ-lille2.fr	Soren Rosendahl Department of Mycology  University of Copenhagen  Oster Farimagsgade 2D  DK-1353 Copenhagen K  Denmark  Email: soerenr@bot.ku.dk
Peter R. Johnston Landcare Research, Herbarium PDD  Private Bag 92170  Auckland  New Zealand  Email: johnstonp@landcare.cri.nz	Gioconda San Blas Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cient'ficas  Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular  Laboratorio de Micologia  Apartado Postal 21827  Caracas 1020A  Venezuela  Email: gsanblas@pasteur.ivic.ve
Pavel Lizon Department of Plant Systematics  Institute of Botany  D.bravsk. 14  SK-842 23 Bratislava  Slovakia  botupali@savba.savba.sk http://nic.savba.sk/sav/inst/botu/Pavel01.html	Brian Spooner Mycology Dept.  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond  Surrey TW9 3AE  United Kingdom  Email: b.spooner@rbgkew.org.uk
Akira Nakagiri National Institute of Technology and Evaluation Biological Resource Center (NBRC) 2-5-8, Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu-shi, Chiba Pref., 292-0812, Japan tel. +81-438-52-2381    fax. +81-438-52-2329 e-mail: nakagiri-akira@meti.go.jp http://www.nite.go.jp/	Brett A. Summerell Royal Botanic Gardens  Mrs MacQuaries Rd  Sydney, NSW 2000  Australia  Email: brett@rbgsyd.gov.au
Pier Luigi Niis Department of Biology  University of Trieste  Via Giorgieri 10 34127 Trieste  Italy  Email: nimis@univ.trieste.it	John W. Taylor Department of Plant and Microbial Biology  111 Koshland Hall  Univ. California  Berkeley, CA  USA 94720-3102  Email: jtaylor@socrates.berkeley.edu
Mario Rajchenberg Protection Department  Centro de Investigacisn y Extensisn Forestal Andino  Patagonico  C.C. 14 - Ruta 259 km 4  9200 ESQUEL, Chubut  Argentina  TeleFax: 00+54-2945-453948  Email:  marior@ciefap.cyt.edu.ar	Wen-ying Zhuang Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory (SMLL)  Institute of Microbiology  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 100080  China  Email: zhuangwy@sun.im.ac.cn