Section for General Mycology of the International Union of Biological Societies
See new site <http://www.biologi.uio.no/org/ima/>. This is archived material. As of August 2002, Trond Schumacher became president of IMA
If you would like to pursue the possibility of making an important contribution to international mycology, please contact the President of IMA (Meredith Blackwell, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 70803, mblackwell@lsu.edu) as soon as possible and no later than 1 April 2002 for more information on the preparation of a proposal for consideration by the Executive Committee of IMA. It is important that committed mycologists be involved directly in all phases of the planning. The site of IMC 8 must be chosen well before IMC 7 in Oslo (11-16 August 2002).
Proposals will be considered on the basis of details indicating the ability to hold the meeting for an anticipated several thousand mycologists and geographical variety in meeting sites. Previous International Mycological Congress sites have been: IMC 1, Exeter, UK (1971); IMC 2, Tampa, USA (1977); IMC 3, Tokyo, Japan (1983); IMC 4, Regensberg, Germany (1990); IMC 5, Vancouver, Canada (1994), IMC 6, Jerusalem, Israel (1998).
The International Mycological Association (IMA), founded in 1971, represents the interests of 20,000 mycologists worldwide. It is a non profit making organization, the purpose of which is the encouragement of mycology in all its branches. The International Mycological Association constitutes the Section for General Mycology of the International Union of Biological Societies (IUBS), the primary biological component of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).
Important activities of the
IMA are sponsorship of International Mycological Congresses, representation
of mycological interests at an international level, and encouragement of
liaison with and development of national, regional, and international bodies
that have mycological interests. Toward these aims several publications
are made available periodically. The IMA is managed by its officers and
Executive Committee who are elected by the General Assembly of delegates
at each Congress.
Photographs
from the workshop preceeding the La Asociación Latinoamericana de
Micología (ALM) Congress held in September 1999 at Universidad Simon
Bolivar and Rancho Grande at Henry Pittier National Park.
Report
and photograph of the Asian International Mycological Congress 2001
(Karaj, Iran, September 17-20)
Latin American
Mycological Congress and Ascomycete Workshop photographs
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