Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (Botany Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal at Ismailia) under the auspices of the Convention on biological Diversity (CBD) and Mohamed bin Zayed species conservation Fund (MBZ) announce the 4th anniversary celebration of the National Fungus Day of Egypt. The celebration will take place in Culture Entertainment Center, Port Said, Egypt on 24th of February 2018 from 10 am till 5 pm if Allah wills. The celebration will include:

Keynote speakers and young researchers will present their works in the following fields of interests:

A- Medicine in Ancient Egypt,

B- Fungal mycotoxins and natural antioxidants: Two sides of the same coin and significance in food safety,

C- Egyptian fungi as a source of new medicines,

D- Fungal secondary metabolites as a language,

E- Sources and control of opportunistic fungi in the hospital environment ,

F- Medicinal uses of Ganoderma,

G- Climate change and plant diseases,

H- Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by soil fungi,

I- Decolourization and degradation of industrial dyes and insecticide by Egyptian fungi,

If you like to be one of our oral presenters the following topics are avaliable:

A- Trichoderma a friend or a foe?,

B- Biological control by fungi in Egypt where and to where?,

C- Agricultural application of mycorrhizal fungi to increase crop yields,

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 للتسجيل 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: