By Josh, on July 12th, 2012% Here’s three upcoming mycological meetings which may be of interest to you:
As part of the 10th European Conference on Nitrogen Fixation held in Munich a satellite meeting called the 1st Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting will be held over two days: Thursday, September 6th to Friday, September 7th. The list of speakers is pretty amazing if (like me), mycorrhizae is your thing. See here for registration and see here for abstract submission.
The British Mycological Society will be having a meeting for Fungal Interactions on September 3rd to 6th, 2012, in Alicante, Spain. The sessions look to be diversely balanced and focused on fungal interactions with all types of organisms. See here for the preliminary meeting program and to register see here.
 Finally, if you live in the New England area of North America (or don’t mind the travel) the first regional meeting of mycologists from the state of Massachusetts and the surround area will be held on October, 27th 2012. It will be aptly named MassMyco. The meeting will be held at Clark University and hosted by the Hibbett Lab. I love these small regional meetings, so perhaps I’ll try to make the trek for this one. Registration is not open yet, but check back soon.
By Josh, on July 8th, 2012% 
Perhaps because I study mycorrhizae the ICOM meetings have a special place in my heart, so I’m excited to tell you that the next ICOM — the 7th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM7) — is open for registration. The meeting will be held in New Dehli in January of 2013. Here is the call for abstracts. Here’s some more information from the meeting website:
The Organizing Committee cordially invites you to the 7th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM7) to be held from 6th to 11th January’ 2013 in New Delhi, the capital Republic of India. Organized by TERI under the auspices of the International Mycorrhiza Society and in collaboration with the Mycorrhiza Network, this 6 day gala event would bring the ICOM legacy to Asia for the first time.
The theme of this conference, “Mycorrhiza for all – An Under Earth Revolution” is wisely chosen so that it may prove to be the epicenter of a new revolution that our planet is in dire need of. A change that would help minimise the usage of chemical fertilizer on soil and hence leave the least environmental footprint.
By Josh, on August 10th, 2011% The International Symbiosis Society hosts a congress every three years at different locations. It’s been announced that the 7th International Symbiosis Congress will convene in the city of Kraków (Poland) on July 22nd to the 28th, 2012 (Poster). This international meeting is held every three years and this cycle is being held at Jagiellonian University.
 It is expected that several hundred scientists will present new research both in the form of talks and posters. Registration is now open and is located here. A confirmed list of speakers will address areas of research such as dinoflagellates, mycorrhizas, lichens, insect symbioses, and nitrogen fixing plant associated bacteria. Quite fittingly, this Congress is dedicated to the memory of Gopi Podilla.
 UPDATE (September 22nd, 2011):
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More About Me I'm a biologist with broad interests, focused mainly on fungal and plant genomics and understanding how these two diverse groups of organisms interact with each other.
I am mainly interested in the mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis, the meta-taxonomic and metagenomic assessment of plant-associated environments, and the dissection of interactions of fungus and plant: from cell-to-cell contact to the modification of gene expression resulting from these communications.
I typically use laboratory techniques and field studies addressing more specific questions using controlled experiments. I have increasingly turned to bioinformatic techniques to handle the analysis of genomic data so I spend a lot of time in front of a computer.
You can read more about me and my interests at my website.
Please get in touch with me by emailing me at josh...@gmail.com
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