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The Fourth IAL Symposium: Progress and Problems in Lichenology at the Turn of the Millennium
President: M. Jahns; Secretary: X. Llimona. - Organizing Committee and Advisory Board: C. Ascaso, E. Barreno, A. R. Burgaz, R. Carballal, M. Casares, A. Crespo, J. M. Egea, A. Gómez-Bolea, N. L. Hladun, X. Llimona, C. Máguas, E. Manrique, L. G. Sancho, F. Valladares, C. Vicente-Córdoba. Local Organizing Committee: X. Llimona (Secretary), P.Navarro-Rosinés (Assistant Secretary), N. L. Hladun, A.Gómez-Bolea, M. Barbero, M. Giralt.
General Information: The Fourth International Association of Lichenology Meeting will be held from 3rd to 8th September 2000 at the Facultat de Biologia of the University of Barcelona. Most of the sessions will take place in the Aula Magna of the Faculty, Avenida Diagonal 645, Barcelona. The University of Barcelona (Divisió III), the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, and the Generalitat de Catalunya will act as sponsors. Lichenologists of the Grup de Recerca de Criptogàmia (Dept. de Biologia Vegetal, UB) will act as Local Organising Committee, assisted by an Advisory Board composed of by leading Iberian lichenologists.
Purpose: This Symposium is a continuation of a series of international meetings on lichen biology, which started in Berlin 1969, and continued in Bristol 1974, Münster 1986 (IAL 1), London 1989, Madrid 1990, Lund 1992 (IAL 2) and Salzburg 1996 (IAL 3). It aims to bring together students and scientists from different fields such as morphology, physiology, ecology, chemistry and classic and molecular systematics in order to extend our knowledge of the lichenized fungi.
Second Announcement: If you are interested in receiving further information on the symposium please return the reply form (see www.bio.ub.es/ial2000.htm) before September 1999. The second announcement will be distributed during February 2000.
Language: The working language at the symposium will be English. No translation service will be provided. Abstracts must be submitted in English.
Scientific Program: The symposium will include scientific sessions, contributed symposia and poster sessions. The scientific program has been tentatively divided into eight different sections and four contributed symposia: Sections: A. - Systematics of the Mycobiont; B.- Photobionts; C.- Morphology and Structure; D.- Ecology and Ecophysiology; E.- Mediterranean and Xerophilous Lichen Diversity and Biogeography; F.- Lichen-dominated Communities; G.- Populations and Thallus Individuality; H.- Lichenicolous Fungi. Contributed Symposia: 1.- Bioindication by Lichens of Stability and Stress in Ecosystems; 2.- Storage and Retrieval of Lichen Data: Publications, Herbaria, Checklists, Floras; 3.- Strategies for the Sustainable Use of Lichen Biodiversity; 4.- Molecular Approach to Lichen Phylogeny.
Participants: The symposium is open to any person interested in the lichenized fungi.
Contributed Papers: papers for oral presentation or poster demonstration are welcomed. The final selection for these presentations will be taken by the conveners (two in each section on Contributed Symposium).
Registration: Definitive registration fees will be published on the second announcement.
Accomodation: The Technical Secretariat - AOPC will reserve hotel rooms at various rates. Hotels will be located close to the city center and well connected with the symposium venue by public transport. Further information will be given in the second announcement.
Excursions: Some pre-congress lichenological excursions will be organized from August 28th to September 2nd. An optional one-day post-congress excursion will be organized on September 9th. These excursions will not be included in the registration fee. Further detailed information will be provided in the second announcement.
Correspondence: All correspondence and inquiries should be addressed to the technical secretariat: IAL 4 - AOPC, Edif. Colon, Av. Drassanes 6-8, E-08001 Barcelona, phone: +34 93 302-7541, fax:+34 93301-1255, e-mail: aopc@ncsa.es - Further, continuously updated information can be found at: www.bio.ub.es/ial2000.htm.
Treasurer's Report
The delay in sending the last issue of the Newsletter (vol. 31,2) was due to a strike in Hungary in January 1999. This, and the increase of postal costs resulted in a worse financial situation of the IAL. Practically no increase is shown in the balance, if we subtract the mailing costs of the present issue. There is now US$ 8,400 accumulated on the IAL accounts in Hungary and the US. The cumulative sum of more than US$ 10,000, reported in ILN 31, 2, never existed. Many members have not yet payed until 2000. Former members who have received issues of the Newsletter during the last two years, are kindly requested to pay the membership fee of US$ 40 for 1997-2000. Members who joined the Association at any time during the last 2 years will receive (or have already received) all issues from 1997 (Vol.30, nrs.1, 2, 1997; Vol. 31, nrs.1, 2, 1998). Please, let me know if you have not received them! Lichenologists who have decided to join the Association can choose to pay in full (US$ 40 for the entire 4 years period - 1997-2000), and then they'll receive also the back issues. If they choose becoming a member only from January 1st 1999, the fee is of US$ 20. New members should contact the Treasurer to register. We need your name, institution, street, town, country, fax, e-mail and telephone. Please send any changes as soon as possible. Submit all unpaid membership dues before 15 August 1999! The following options are available:
1) Edit Farkas, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-2163 Vácrátót, Hungary - cheques should be made payable to Hungarian Foreign Trade Bank, H-1051 Budapest, Szent István tér 11, Acc. no.: 501-00047-2100-4019 MTA TUDOMANY (the account holder is the Dept. International Relations, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), as remark please add "IAL membership fee for 1997-2000 (or 1999-2000)" The S.W.I.F.T. code of the bank is: MKKB-HU-HB - All fees should be paid in US$! You are kindly requested to add US$ 5 for bank charges if you send a cheque, or, in case of a bank transfer, to pay all bank fees. Please, inform me directly if a bank transfer has been taken place!
2) IAL dues can be also paid to: François Lutzoni, Deputy Treasurer, Center for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Dept. of Botany, The Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. In this case there is no bank service charge.
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