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IMC11 in Puerto Rico a Great Success! The 11th International Mycological Congress was held from (15–)16–21 July 2018 at the San Juan Convention Center in Puerto Rico. There were 813 full registrations, 14 one-day passes, and 15 guests making a total of 842 registrants, though sadly only 701 of the registrants from 53 countries made it as a consequence of travel difficulties. The attendance was quite good considering Puerto Rico was stuck by two major hurricanes only 10 months prior to the Congress. There were eight keynote and plenary presentations, 274 oral presentations in 45 symposia, and 588 scheduled poster presentations. The arrangement of the posters into discussion groups within the six poster sessions worked well in stimulating discussion (with much thanks to embedded discussion leaders). The 10-ft spacing of the rows allowed people to view posters on both sides while allowing others to pass through. The feedback was very positive regarding the facilities and programme, though a couple of sessions exceeded the room capacity, and more registrants would have liked to have gone on the field trips to El Yunque National Forest. The number for the El Yunque field trips was capped because of restrictions on the number of minibuses allowed in the forest, the limited number of trails that were open to the public (though we were given access to one trail not open to the public), and limited access to bathrooms. We were able to accommodate 56–58 people on precongress field trips and the mid-congress free-day, led by Beatriz Ortiz Santana, D.
Jean Lodge, Paul Bayman, Kurt Miller, and Joel Mercado. We were able to arrange for two groups to visit La Cabezas de San Juan coastal mangrove and dry forest, led by Sandra Moldenado and José Pérez Jiménez. Kurt Miller led two trips to the Rio Abajo forest, and there were two pre-congress field trips and one mid-congress field trip to the Carite Commonwealth Forest, led by Yaritza Rivera and Joel Mercado. Two workshops also had field trips – the precongress ascomycete workshop field trip to Parque Monagas, led by Sandra Moldanado, and the Forest Pathology field trip led by D. Jean Lodge. This was the first time a formal decisionmaking Nomenclature Session had been
held at an IMC, which is reported on elsewhere in this issue (IMA Fungus 9(2): (47–51), (xv–xxi). Submitted on behalf of the Mycological Society of America (MSA) Program Chair, Donald H. Pfister, and all the Local Organizing Committee members, including Matías J. Cafaro (Congress Secretary), José Pérez Jiménez Carmen Acevedo, Juan Acevedo, Paul Bayman, Benjamin Bolaños, Marian Espola, and Sandra Moldenado. D. Jean Lodge and Sharon A. Cantrell IMC11 Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs ([email protected] and [email protected])
IMC 11 Poster Session.
Jean Lodge, holding Earliella scabrosa, at El Verde Field Research Station during the El Yunque field trip. Photo: Mubashar Raza.
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Scenes from the IMC11: 11th International Mycological Congress, held in the Puerto Rico Convention Centre
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