The Cabinet of Lichens
Organization: Silvana Munzi
All expert lichenologists have been beginners and have encountered similar difficulties when approaching lichens for the first time: how can I get a spore out of the ascus? How can I check in the field if the photobiont is a green alga? What is considered a good specimen? How to organize my herbarium?
This course, dedicated to beginners, was born thinking about the hours spent in the company of the many doubts raised by handling lichens, with focus on the practical difficulties of lichen identification and study.
The initiative includes webinars, Q&A sessions and the creation of a working group to better answer the needs of who is approaching lichens and plan the future activities.
Join us (virtually) in a friendly environment and bring your questions. We have been there, we can help.
Free but reserved to IAL members. To become a IAL member: https://ial-lichenology.org/membership/
Register sending an email to Silvana Munzi (email hidden; JavaScript is required), you will receive the link to participate the day before the meeting. The webinars will be recorded and made available to members not able to attend on the day.
Pre-summer appointments:
| 28 Apr
18:00 CET |
First steps in field lichenology: Recognition and collection techniques of lichens
Bibiana Moncada – Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia; Botanischer Garten Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 26 Mag
5:00 pm WEST |
Microscopic and macroscopic characters: What to look at in lichen identification
Adriano Spielmann – Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil |
| 23 Jun
4:00 pm CET 10:00 am EDT |
Thinking beyond the moment – a beginners guide to lichen collecting and collections
Holger Thüs (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany) and Gothamie Weerakoon (Natural History Museum, London, UK) |
| 21 July
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Ask what you want (about lichens)
Q&A sessions with lichen experts adapted to different time zones: Cecile Gueidan – 7 pm Canberra time – 8 am WEST – 9 am CET Pat Wolseley & Holger Thus – 5 pm CET – 4 pm WEST – 12 am EDT Gothamie Weerakoon & Adriano Spielmann – 2 pm EDT – 3 pm Brasilia time – 7 pm WEST
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End-of-year appointments
| 7-8 Nov
8:00-11:00 am Arizona time |
A beginner’s course to managing records of lichenized fungi in the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria – managing specimen data, benefiting from taxonomic resources, and creating checklists
Frank Bungartz (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA) Registration required, register here. |
| 24 Nov
4:30 pm (CET) |
Lichens and Citizen Science
Deborah Isocrono (Università di Torino, Italy) |
| 19 Dec
4:30 pm (CET) |
Exploring lichen biodiversity data in ITALIC: the information system on Italian lichens and its interoperability with the R programming language
Matteo Conti (Università di Trieste, Italy) |
2024 activities
| 6 Mar
4 pm (WET) |
Biological and ecological role of lichen secondary metabolites
Martin Bačkor (Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra) |