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

I encourage Mycological section members to attend the BSA/CBA conference in Vancouver BC this July - www.botanyconference.org/

The Mycology section is sponsoring a symposium, Plants and Fungi--Growing together.

In keeping with this theme, I encourage you to submit your oral presentations to other sections--wherever appropriate. Rather than keeping fungi separate, let's integrate into general topics--systematics, development, ecology, etc.

We will offer a Mycological Section poster area if you have some topic that is singularly fungal.

Also, we are looking for applicants for the 2008 Mycological section student travel award ($400). Students members of the section are encouraged to apply (non-section members with mycological content as well). Professional members, please encourage your students to do so.
www.botany.org/awards/MycologicalSTA.asp

And remember, Botany 2009 will be a big event for our section as we meet with the Mycological Society of America, July 25-29 - in Snowbird, Utah!

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you in Vancouver.

Darlene

Darlene Southworth
Mycological Section Chair
southworth@sou.edu
3/19/08

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