OUTLINE OF MAIN PROGRAM
Morning Non-Concurrent Sessions
MONDAY AUGUST 5: 9:00-10:00 AM - Zellerbach Auditorium
"Opening Plenary Lectures"
MONDAY AUGUST 5: 10:30-12:00 NOON - Zellerbach Auditorium
"Microbial Interactions in the Mycorrhizosphere"
Organizers: Mike Miller (USA), Jean Garbaye (France)
- Julie Jastrow
"Contributions of mycorrhizae to the development of soil aggregate
hierarchy"
- Robin Sen
"Bioremediation of petroleum derived hydrocarbons in the plant
mycorrhizosphere"
- Jean Garbaye
"New results and hypotheses about mycorrhizal helper fluorescent
pseudomonads"
TUESDAY AUGUST 6: 8:30-10:00 AM - Wheeler Auditorium
"Advances in Molecular Ecology"
Organizers Monique Gardes (USA), Ian Sanders (Switzerland)
- Ian Sanders
Genetic and functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi natural communities
- Ola Kårén
Community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi - a molecular approach
- Tom Whitham
Using molecular techniques to understand community structure
from the bottom up: interactions of environmental stress,
pinyon pine, mycorrhizae, soil microbes and insect herbivores
at Sunset Crater
TUESDAY AUGUST 6: 10:30-12:00 NOON - Wheeler Auditorium
"Biodiversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi: Problems of Measurement and Meaning"
Organizers: Tom O'Dell (USA), Adolphe Zeze (Ivory Coast)
- Brian Bainbridge
Fungal Biodiversity : origins, estimation and significance
- Keith Egger
Molecular Biodiversity: What are we measuring?
- Joe Morton
Measurement and Interpretation of Arbuscular Fungal Species Diversity at Different Scales
THURSDAY AUGUST 8: 8:30-10:00 AM - Wheeler Auditorium
"Mycorrhizal Linkages between Plants"
Organizers: Sally Smith (Australia), Roger Finlay (Sweeden)
- Suzanne Simard
Ecological significance of carbon transfer in ectomycorrhizal tree
species mixtures
- Alastair Fitter
Quantifying carbon transport between mycorrhizally-linked plants
using natural abundance 13C measurements
- Andrew Smith
Selectivity and control: the role of membranes in inter-plant
transfer of nutrients
THURSDAY AUGUST 8: 10:30-12:00 NOON - Wheeler Auditorium
"Mycoheterotrophy"
Organizers: Dan Luoma (USA), Jonathan Leake (UK)
- Jonathan Leake
Myco-heterotrophy as a way of life
- Lee Taylor
Myco-heterotrophy in North American orchids: Specificity and Trophic Links
- Carla Zelmer
Getting to the root of the matter: Mycoheterotrophy in the
Orchidaceae and Ericaceae from a fungal perspective
FRIDAY AUGUST 9: 8:30-10:00 AM - Wheeler Auditorium
"Mycorrhizal Mediation of Plant Dynamics"
Organizer: Nancy Johnson (USA)
- David Hartnett
Mycorrhizal mediation of plant competition, demography, and species diversity in grasslands
- Shivcharn Dhillion
Mycorrhizal relationships with plant diversity and elevated CO2 conditions
- Bernie Dell and Nicholas Malajczuk
A role for Australian ectomycorrhizal fungi in the rehabilitation of
denuded landscapes in Asia
FRIDAY AUGUST 9: 10:30-12:00 NOON - Wheeler Auditorium
"Advances in Applications and Restoration Ecology"
Organizers: Isabel Alvarez (Spain), Edie Allen (USA)
- François Le Tacon
Nursery and field response to ectomycorrhizal inoculation of forest trees in western Europe
- David Jasper
AM fungi in land restoration - we can apply the principles, what about a product?
- Oluwole Osonubi
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) and different hedgerow prunings
on yield of alley-cropped cassava and intercropped maize in a degraded
tropical soil
Afternoon Sessions
Late Afternoon Workshops
ICOM 1
Last updated: Monday July 29 1996