Theo Llewellyn received the Mason Hale award for his PhD dissertation “The Evolution of Anthraquinones as an Adaptive Trait in Lichen-forming Fungi”. The award was announced at the dinner during the12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) on 11-15 August 2024 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. (Photo by Robert Luecking)
The International Association for Lichenology has awarded the prestigious Acharius Medal to Kansri Boonpragob, in well-deserved recognition of her significant contributions to the field. This honor highlights her pivotal role in establishing an outstanding lichenological school in Thailand, where she has not only advanced scientific research but also mentored a …
We are glad to announce the new IAL Awards Nomination Committee! The mission of this new committee will be to seek and encourage nominations or applications for IAL awards to be given during IAL10. Many thanks to Kansri Boonpragob, Pradeep Kumar Divakar, Paul Kirika, Yoshihito Ohmura, Julieta Orlando, and Gothamie …
With some changes, but the same passion! Scott LaGreca resigned from the IAL Council. Scott served for many years as a member-at-large of the Council, member of the Editorial Board of the ILN, archivist for our association and other various roles. Thank you so much, Scott, for your amazing contribution …
You don’t really want to leave for holidays without a good lichen discussion, so, join us to talk about the paper “The dark side of orange: Multiorganismic continuum dynamics within a lichen of the Atacama Desert” by Jung et al. (2023). IAL Lichen Journal Club on Thursday, 30th July at …
The 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) will take place in Maastricht, Netherlands, August 11-15, 2024. It is possible to register with substantial savings until August 6. Starting August 7, it will be possible to register but at a much higher rate. As you will see under the “Programme” tab of …
We’ve been away for a while, but we’re back! Join us for a new Journal Club session on Tuesday, 9th July at 11 AM (CST time). We’ll discuss the paper “Symbionts out of sync: Decoupled physiological responses are widespread and ecologically important in lichen associations” by Meyer et al. (2024). …
Time to start our activities for 2024. The first speaker is Martin Bačkor of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra and the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. He will talk about “Biological and ecological role of lichen secondary metabolites”. More info here.
On February 19th, English Wikipedia had the article on the family Teloschistaceae as their “Featured article of the day”! As the main contributor of the article Robert Sasata (Wikipedia user Esculenta) explains, this means that Teloschistaceae got displayed on the main page of the online encyclopedia, with 4-5 million views …
Let’s talk about lichens‘ life at the next IAL Early Career Research meeting with Daniel Stanton (University of Minnesota) on 13th of February,9:00 AM (CST). More info at https://ial-lichenology.org/courses-trips/journal-club/
