2nd African Fungus Day- 2023|يوم الفطريات الثانى في إفريقيا - 2023

The Second African Fungus Day Online
Date: May 25, 2023


يوم الفطريات الثانى في إفريقيا - 25 مايو 2023


Fungi for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century الفطريات من أجل التنمية المستدامة في القرن الحادي والعشرين


Des Champignons pour le Développement Durable au 21e Siècle



     

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

  


Event Coordinator

  

Prof.Tonjock Rosemary Kinge

Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon,

Event Organizer

  

Dr. Akram Hassan Mohamed

Department of Microbial Genetic Resources, National Gene Bank, Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Egypt.

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 (ASFC) at Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, egypt and African Mycological Association (AfriMA) 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 2023 from 10 am till 6 pm (Egypt local time-GMT+03:00) Eastern European Time) if Allah wills by Google meet platform. click on the button .


The celebration will include different well-known mycologists from Africa and their speeches will cover different topics such as:
1- Food, Food Security and Potential Industrial Application.
2- Current and Potential Agricultural Applications.
3- Fungi and Their Secondary Metabolites: Implications.
4- Burden to Health and Indoor Environment.
5- Diversity, Taxonomy and Phylogeny.
6- How fungi can help solve the climate crisis?
7- Endophytic Fungi: A Hidden Treasure Towards Pathogen Management.
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 2023

  

Dr. Marc Stadler

Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF),
Braunschweig, Germany

Novel anti-infective and neurotrophic secondary metabolites from cultures of rare and new species of basidiomycetes




Our well-known speakers for 2023

  

Dr. AIGNON Lougbegnon Hyppolite

Research Unit Tropical Mycology and Plants-Soil Fungi Interactions (MyTIPS),
Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakoum, Benin.

Avances in the taxonomic study of macromycetes from West Africa : the case of Inocybe.



  

Prof.Saida Messgo-Moumene

Faculty of Natural Science and Life,
Blida 1 University, Algeria.

New strains of Trichoderma asperellum as innovative solutions for sustainable agriculture



  

Dr. Sara Raouia Noumeur

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

Unveiling Novel Secondary Metabolites from Algerian fungal Endophytes



  

Dr. Thabiso Motaung Motaung

Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology,
Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), South Africa.

Extracellular Matrix, a Key Determinant of Fungal Biofilm Environmental Responses, is a Course for Concern



  

Dr. Boris Olou

Research Unit of Tropical Mycology and Plants-Soil Fungi Interactions,
Faculty f Agronomy, University of Parakou, Benin.

Exploring new habitats and Lesser-Known Fungal Groups to Accelerate the Documentation of African Fungal Diversity: The Case of Polypores in Benin, West Africa



  

Dr. Sarah Ahmed

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

Fungal Infections in Africa: An Overview of the Situation.

  

Ms. Moforcha Lilian

Department of Plant Science,
University of Buea, Cameron.

Fungal Potential for Sustainable Industrial Biotechnology.

  

Dr. Lobna Hajji Hedfi

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

Beneficial Fungi for Biostimulation and Biocontrol of Plant Diseases.



  

Prof. Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem

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

Endophytic Fungi: A hidden Treasure Towards Pathogen Management





Publications concerning Africa' Fungus Days: