NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee

journals and organize international conferences, national annual meetings, various symposia
and workshops are the main tasks of the society.
Highlights of 2011
� The Tenth China-Korea Joint Symposium was held at Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an city
on 22-25 April, 2011. Fifteen representatives from Korea and 60 representatives from China
attended this symposium. Fourteen speeches covering fungal diversity, phylogeny and evolution,
edible and medicinal fungi and other aspects were reported on the meeting.
� The tenth mycological symposium of cross-strait sponsored by Mycological Society of China and
Mycological Society of Taiwan, was held at Wuhan Agriculture University on 15-18 July, 2011.
Sixteen members of Mycological Society of Taiwan attended this symposium. Fifty
representatives presented their latest research outcomes. To enhance the exchange and co-
operation between mycologists from Cross-Taiwan Straits and facilitate the development in
mycology, the joint symposium has been run every two years since 1993 in mainland or Taiwan
respectively.
� The 2011 MSC annual meeting was held in Guangzhou on 15-17 August. More than 400
members of MSC participated this annual meeting. There are 150 presentations in 11 sections.
These reports exhibited the latest research results on the followed aspects: fungal diversity and
systematics, plant pathology, medical mycology, edible mushroom, pharmaceutical fungi,
industrial fungi, myxomycete, mycorrhiza and endophytic fungi, fungal chemistry, fungal genetics
and molecular biology. Postgraduate student awards were given to six student presentations.
� China’s Fungal Genome Initiative (CFGI) proposed by the MSC are now investing great efforts for
fungal genomics. More than 60 species of plant, insect and nematode pathogens as well as the
mushrooms and mycorrhizal fungi have been or are being sequenced. To incorporate the joint
efforts, the first CFGI Symposium was successfully held in Shanghai on September 20-22, 2009.
The studies on fungal genomics have been extensively advanced for the past two years. To
continue promoting fungal genomics studies in China, the second CFGI symposium was
organized by MSC and Yunnan University on October 23-25, 2011. Following the invited talks, a
workshop was held for sharing the techniques/methods for genomic data analysis.