IMS Quarterly Newsletter Now Available - Volume 1 Issue 3 September 2020 What's in this quarter's newsletter? We are happy to present to you our 3rd issue of the IMS quarterly newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide you with information and recent highlights and news regarding the symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal [...]
The IMS would like to announce that Dr. John Klironomos has stepped down as the IMS President. Dr. Klironomos was elected by the IMS membership in July 2019 and served one year as president. Dr. Marcel van der Heijden, elected as Vice President in July 2019, is now the current IMS President! We all wish [...]
IMS Quarterly Newsletter Now Available - May 2020 Issue #2 What's in this quarter's newsletter? We are happy to present to you our 2nd issue of the IMS quarterly newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide you with information and recent highlights and news regarding the symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal fungi. Included [...]
IMS Launches New Quarterly e-newsletter March 2020 Dear Member of the International Mycorrhiza Society, With this newsletter we would like to inform you about upcoming events, new research highlights and important information related to mycorrhizal research and the mycorrhizal researchers community. We also present a list of the top 10 new mycorrhizal papers [...]
Dr. Sally Smith, BA., MA., PhD., DSc. Dear IMS members, We are very sorry to inform you that Sally Smith passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on the 12th of September. We all know Sally for her outstanding and fantastic contribution to mycorrhizal research and the promotion of our field in many countries across the World, and [...]
The IMS Board of Directors is pleased to announce ICOM11 will be held in 2021 in Beijing, China, and organized by the Chinese Society of Mycology (Prof GUO Liang-Dong) and ICOM12 will be held from Sunday 4th August 2024 in Manchester, UK, and organized by Prof David Johnson (University of Manchester), Dr Katie Field [...]
Dear IMS Member Every two years, the IMS board and executive must be elected. The Vice-President elected in the previous term, becomes President. Every term a new Vice-President must be elected, along with any new Directors. This term we will have THREE new Directors. Professor John Klironomos, Dept. of Biology, UBCO Okanagan, Canada will [...]
The Local Organizing Committee offers 20 scholarships to stimulate the participation of professionals (non-researchers) and students in ICOM 10. Scholarships are directed to people who will NOT be presenting their work, as abstracts calls are closed now. Professionals NOT working in universities or research institutions (i.e. inoculum producing companies, government offices), and active students are [...]
Maria Harrison, William H. Crocker Professor at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University, has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. The announcement was made in an April 30th, 2019 press release. The International Mycorrhiza Society executive, directors and members would like [...]
Special issue of New Phytologist just published (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2018/220/4), containing several Tansley reviews and Tansley insighst on numerous aspects of mycorrhizal symbiosis. Free to access. iMMM4 in Torino approaching in February 2019 – register now! (http://www.societabotanicaitaliana.it/immm2019/eng/detail.asp?idn=4792) More information on ICOM10 coming soon at the website: http://www.icom10.org/index.php [...]
