Proposed Symposia and Colloquia Schedule for Botany & Mycology 2009

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Monday Morning

• MSA Presidential Address
  
• The Power of Movement in Plants
  Organized by: Wendy Silk
  
• The dynamics of evolution in plant and fungal interactions - from communities to genomes
  Organized by: Georgiana May

Monday Afternoon

• Genome, Phenome, Environment, and Evolution of Land Plants
  Organized by: Yin-Long Qiu
  
• Unusual fungal niches
  Organized by: Sharon A. Cantrell
  
• MSA Karling Lecture
  

Tuesday Morning

• The Challenges Posed by Large Data Sets in Assembling the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life
  Organized by: Michael Moore
  
• Multiplicity of Fungal Form and Function in Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems
  Organized by: Cathy Cripps
  

Tuesday Afternoon

• Tropical and Subtropical Lichens: Diversity and Floristics
  Organized by: Thomas Nash
  
• The conservation biology of fungi
  Organized by: Anne Pringle
  
• Colloquia - Assembling the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life: Progress and Challenges
  Organized by: Michael Moore

Wednesday Morning

• Environmental Climate Change : The role of marine and aquatic photosynthetic organisms in the global carbon cycle
  Organized by: Anitra Thorhaug
  

Wednesday Afternoon

• The Greatest Opportunists of all: Celebrating 40 years of Job Kuijt ’s "Biology of Parasitic Flowering Plants"
  Organized by: Christopher Randle
  
• Phylogenetic and functional patterns of host plants and their associated fungi: implications for symbiotic co-evolution, community interactions, and ecosystem processes
  Organized by: Louise Comas
  
• Teaching with basal fungal lineages
  Organized by: Martha J. Powell