The 3rd National Fungus Day of Egypt

Venue: Ashtoum El-Gamil Protectorate, Port Said, Egypt
Date: February 20, 2018

اليوم الوطنى الثالث لفطريات مصر

محمية أشتوم الجميل، بورسعيد، جمهورية مصر العربية

التاريخ:20 فبراير 2018
Final Agenda أجندة الفعاليات



In 2014 and 2016 Abdel-Azeem “the founder of Arab Society for Fungal Conservation” proposed a good candidate for celebration of Egypt’s National Fungus Day on the 20th of February. This is due to the role of ancient Egyptians in documentation and conservation of fungi since ancient time and Ramses II is one of the famous pharaohs and solar event in The Great Temple at Abu Simbel is a cosmopolitan one. Abdel-Azeem with the help of international societies, agencies and mycologists decreed the Egypt’s National Fungus Day in Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the 20th of February 2016 for the first time.


أقترح عبد العظيم “مؤسس الجمعية العربية للحفاظ على الفطريات” في عامي 2014 و 2016 ترشيحا للاحتفال باليوم الوطنى لفطريات مصر في العشرين من فبراير. ويرجع ذلك إلى دور المصريين القدماء في توثيق والحفاظ على الفطريات منذ العصور القديمة وأن رمسيس الثاني احد أشهر الفراعنة وتعامد الشمس في المعبد الكبير في أبو سمبل يعد أحد الأحداث العالمية. و استطاع عبد العظيم وبمساعدة المؤسسات والوكالات الدولية وعلماء الفطريات اعتبار العشرين من فبراير 2016 يوما وطنيا لفطريات مصر تم الاحتفال به في رحاب مكتبة الإسكندرية في العشرين من فبراير 2016 لأول مرة




  

Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (Botany Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal at Ismailia) under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, Convention on biological Diversity (CBD), Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific Professions and Ibn Sina Medical Laboratory announce the 3rd anniversary celebration of the National Fungus Day of Egypt. The celebration will take place in Ashtoum El-Gamil Protectorate in Port Said on 20th of February 2018 from 10 am till 5 pm if Allah wills. The celebration will include:

Nine professional Egyptian keynote speakers and young researchers in the following fields of interests:

A- Climate Change and Egyptian Fungi,

B- Fungal Enzymes Inhibitors,

C- Fungal Plant diseases in Egypt,

D- Egyptian Fungi as a Source of Anti-leukemic Enzymes,

E- Using Egyptian Fungi to Clean Up Pollutants,

F- Bioinformatics and Fungal Conservation,

G- Egyptian Fungi as a Sustainable Source of Industrial and Pharmaceutical Enzymes Production,

H- Ancient Egypt is the cradle of mycology, what about modern Egypt?,

I- Role of EEAA in nature Conservation,

2- For poster presentation on the different fields of mycology, please download the instructions form here and the poster template from here. Then, use the online submission form to submit your details and attach the abstract word file. The best three poster’s full papers will be published for free in the International Journal of Microbial Biosystems.

Some activities will be carried by our young mycologists are:

1- Conserve the pathogenic fungus, Ganoderma.

2- Bread making and yeast: An introduction to the biology.

3- Fascinating Fungus Facts.

4- Grow your own mushrooms.

5- Have you seen this fungus in Nile Delta?

6- How to make a spore print of a mushroom.

7- Primary school competition: draw your favourite fungus.

8- Secondary school competition: Fungal interactions.




Publications for the 3rd Egypt's National Fungus Day:

1. The history, fungal biodiversity, conservation, and future perspectives for mycology in Egypt
2. Arab Society for Fungal Conservation
3. A good candidate for International Fungus Day.
4. Lepista nuda (Bull.) Cooke (Basidiomycota: Tricholomataceae): A new record for Egypt
5. Egypt's National Fungus Day
6. The orphans of Rio in Northern Africa – Egypt, a case study
7. التلوث الغذائي وخاصة بالسموم الفطرية وأثره على الصحة العامة
8. زراعة وتسويق فطريات عش الغراب
9. Statement by Cristian Palmer, Executive Secretary of the CBD
10. Abstract Book of Fungus Day (2018)