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1st African Fungus Day- 2022|يوم الفطريات الأول في إفريقيا - 2022

The First African Fungus Day Online
Date: May 25, 2022


يوم الفطريات الأول في إفريقيا - 25 مايو 2022


Fungi the Climate Warriors الفطريات محاربو المناخ


Champignons les guerriers du climat



     

For Download Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema,Executive Secretary of the CBD

  


Event Coordinator

  

Prof. Amira Mohamed Galal Darwish

Food Technology Department, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI),
City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTACity), Egypt.

Event Organizer

  

Dr. Soumya Ghosh

Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,
Free State University, Republic of South Africa.

For Download the Programme

Where plants produce and animals consume, fungi are the recyclers. Fungi are just as much threatened as animals and plants by climate change, habitat destruction, invasives, pollution, over-exploitation and even, in some cases, persecution.

Habitats important for threatened fungi may be different from habitats important for threatened animals and plants. Biodiversity can only be conserved if the well-being of fungi is given as much consideration as that of animals and plants: without fungi life on earth would be unsustainable. Fungi provide enormously important ecosystem services (e.g. soil fertility, mycorrhizas, crop protection, litter decomposition, checks and balances).

Egypt was one of the first countries in the world to have a national fungus day. Egypt is a pioneer country in recognizing that fungi are essential for sustainable life on that planet.

For the aforementioned information mycologists in Africa agreed to consider the 25th of May as the African Fungus Day as on 25 May, 1963, the first African organisation after independence, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed in Addis Ababa.

Arab Society for Fungal Conservation (Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal at Ismailia) under the auspices of the International Mycological Association (IMA), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Fungal Conservation Committee (FunCC), international Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Mohamed bin Zayed species conservation Fund (MBZ) announce the ist annual Africa Fungus Day (AFD). The celebration will take place online on the 25th of May 2022 from 10 am till 5 pm (Egypt local time) if Allah wills by Google meet platform. To join the meet please click on the button . To Join the event please go the following link meet.google.com/icx-buye-rif


The celebration will include different well-known mycologists from Africa and their speeches will cover different topics such as:
1-Climate change and the emergence of fungal pathogens.
2-Terrestrial fungi and global climate change.
3- Fungal disease and climate change.
4- Climate change, fungal change.
5- Climate adaptation – indoor fungi and health.
6- How fungi can help solve the climate crisis?
7- Climate change and plant diseases caused by fungi.
8- Fungal diversity and climate change.
9- Example of fungal activity which reduces greenhouse gases.
10- Mycorrhizal fungi and climate change.
11- Agricultural crops, fungal diseases and climate change.




Our honorary speaker for 2022

  

Dr. Gregory M. Mueller

Chair, IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee Chair,
IUCN SSC Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball Specialist Group
Chicago Botanic Garden, USA

Assessing the Conservation Status of African Fungi.

For Download presenation by Dr. Gregory M. Mueller




Our well-known speakers for 2022

  

Dr. Ayman Hamada Abdel-Hameed

Head of the Biodiversity Central Department,
Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency,Egypt.

One Earth, One Future, Fungi are Part of the Solutions.

For Download presenation by Dr. Ayman Hamada Abdel-Hameed



  

Dr. Marieka Gryzenhout

Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences,
Free State University, Republic of South Africa.

Out of Africa always something new.

For Download presenation by Prof. Marieka Gryzenhout

  

Prof. Tonjock Rosemary Kinge

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science,
The University of Bamenda, Cameroon.

Fungi diversity and climate change.

For Download presenation by Prof. Tonjock Rosemary Kinge

  

Dr. Sarah Ahmed

Center of Expertise in Mycology,Radboudumc / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital,Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.

Climate Change and Emeregence of Fungal Pathogens.

For Download presenation by Dr. Sara Ahmed

  

Dr. Sara Raouia Noumeur

Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences,
University of Batna 2, Algeria.


Fungal Secondary Metabolites Production through the Lens of Climate Change Effect.


For Download presenation by Dr. Sara Raouia Noumeur

  

Dr. Héritier Milenge Kamalebo

Département de Biologie,
Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) de Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Host plants and edaphic factors influence the diversity and distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungal fruiting bodies within rainforests from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For Download presenation by Prof. Héritier Milenge Kamalebo

  

Prof. Amira Mohamed Galal Darwish

Food Technology Department, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI),
City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTACity), Egypt.

Fungi-Based Protiens: The future Towards Reduced Carbon Foodprint.

For Download presenation by Prof. Amira Darwish


  

Dr. Lobna Hajji Hedfi

Regional Centre of Agricultural Research of Sidi Bouzid (CRRA), ,
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

Beneficial Fungi Towards Climate Change / Beneficial Fungi Changing Climatic Scenarios.



  

Dr. Marwa T. Mohesien

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science,
Damietta University, Egypt.

Climate Change is Real: Fungal Prespective in MENA

For Download presenation by Dr. Marwa T. Mohesien



  

Prof. Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, ,
Suez canal University, Egypt.



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