CBS symposium 1F=1N (2011)

CBS symposium One Fungus One Name (1F=1N)

Venue: Trippenhuis, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

Registration: € 200,-- (include coffee/thee, lunches and cocktail parties) can be paid at the registration desk

Poster presentations are welcome.
For information and submission of abstracts contact Rob Samson, r.samson@cbs.knaw.nl

Programme Tuesday April 19
09.30- 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.30 Opening
10.30-11.00 Keynote - John Taylor: “One fungus, one name: DNA and nomenclature twenty years after PCR”
11.00-11.30 Mike Wingfield, Z.W. de Beer and B.D. Wingfield: “One name one fungus:  Examples from Ceratocystis and Leptographium”
11.30-11.50 Scott Redhead: “Planning for future Codes when form-taxa are no longer recognized – how best will mycologists communicate”
11.50-12.10 Walter Gams: “Some notes of caution with Article 59”
12.10-12.30 Gary Samuels: “Sex isn't all it's cracked up to be”

12.30-14.00 lunch + posters + CBS exhibition

14.00-15.00 Nomenclature in Applied and Industrial Mycology (Chair - Rob Samson): Speakers - Janos Varga, Keith Seifert, Jos Houbraken, F. Bai
15.00-16.00 Discussion (Chair - Keith Seifert)

16.00-19.00 Cocktail party:  Rob Samson, Joost Stalpers and Sybren De Hoog – a celebration of 120 years of mycology

19.00 Speakers dinner (Dinner vouchers available for € 40,--)

Programme  Wednesday April 20

0930 – 10.00 CBS awards (von Arx and Westerdijk awards)
10.00-10.20 David Hawksworth: "Dual nomenclature of fungi: a concept that has outlived its usefulness"

10.20-11.10 Coffee break

11.00-11.20 Nomenclature and Fungal Databases: Joost Stalpers
11.20-12.00: Nomenclature in Plant Pathogenic and Saprobic Fungi (Chair Pedro Crous): Speakers - Uwe Braun, Andre Levesque, Ulf Thrane
12.00-12.30: The impact of dual nomenclature on clinical diagnosis: Sybren de Hoog: “Phylogenetic and ecological naming systems in medical mycology”, Wieland Meyer: " The impact of dual nomenclature on clinical diagnosis"

12.30-14.00 lunch + posters + CBS exhibition

14.00-15.15 Discussion  “One Fungus = One Name”, and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature  (Chair - David Hawksworth)
15.15-15.30: Voting on “One Fungus = One Name”

15.30-16.00: Election of a new Executive Board and members of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (Chair - Keith Seifert)

16.00-18.00: Cocktail party; Book Presentation to the Scientific Director of the KNAW, Prof. dr. Theo Mulder (Convenor - Prof. dr. David L. Hawksworth, CBE)