Dear Members of the Mycological Section of the Botanical Society of America,

At the recent BSA meeting in Chicago, the Mycological Section sponsored a symposium on Plant-Fungal Interactions. The program was well received due to the integrated nature of the topic, to the slightly broader perspectives of the speakers, and in part to the lack of competing symposia at the same time.

The next Botanical Society of America meeting with the Canadian Botanical Association will be July 26-30, 2008, in Vancouver, BC. On behalf the Mycological Section, I plan to propose another half-day symposium on some variant of Plant-Fungal Interactions.

Please send ideas for (1) symposium topics, (2) potential speakers and their topics, (3) suggestions or volunteers for symposium co-chairs (4) anything else you think the Mycological Section should do.

Symposium proposals must be submitted by Oct 15, so get ideas to me by Sept. 30.

Darlene Southworth
Mycological Section Chair
southworth@sou.edu
9/19/07

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