ICTF Members Meeting – February 9, 2024

Meeting Agenda

IMC workshops & symposia

Workshop 13: HOW TO DESCRIBE A NEW SPECIES, FROM SAMPLING TO DATA MANAGEMENT AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 08:00 – 09:30 (90 min), Hall 3

Possible participants (schedule to come)

  • introduction and background – Cathie Aime
  • How to avoid most common pitfalls and stay in compliance with the Code – Tom May
  • Dealing with specimen data and the extended specimen concept – Andy Miller
  • Name registration and an overview on identifiers – Konstanze Bensch
  • Best practices to submit data to the public sequence databases -Conrad Schoch
  • Tatiana Gibertoni
  • Marco Thines

Symposium 30: GENOMES, EVOLUTION AND CLASSIFICATION

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:30 – 12:30 (120 min)

Chairs: Mary Catherine Aime, USA Conrad Schoch, USA

Four invited speakers (20 minutes each):

  • Oomycota (Marco Thines, confirmed
  • Single cell genomes (Tim James, confirmed)
  • Evolutionary history of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and genomic signatures of obligate symbiosis (Marisol Sanchez-Garcia, confirmed)

Working on fourth invitee

Will select Four more 10 minutes talks selected from abstracts

Symposium 11: DNA SEQUENCES AS TYPE EQUIVALENT – WHERE TO NEXT?

Monday, August 12, 2024, 16:00 – 18:00 (120 min)

Chairs: Marco Thines, Germany, Robert Lücking, Germany

  1. Background on current efforts
  2. Naming conventions
  3. Minimum standards – DNA markers vs DNA bulk samples & Data analyses

Coordinate with Symposium 5: TAXON NAMES AND TAXON COMMUNICATION IN EDNA ERA

Chairs: Urmas Kõljalg, Estonia, Julia Pawlowska, Poland

Monday, August 12, 2024, 11:00 – 13:00 (120 min)

Need to clarify program and final speakers

Other issues arising: The Thiele et al. proposal at IBC suggest that sequence-typified names should only be published in certain journals. Suggested ICTF could discuss this for early recommendations?

Other actions at IMC

ICTF open session

Membership renewal

Actions to complete before IMC at next meeting in June

Working Groups conclude work and provide final report

Review subcomissions, IUMS Commissions

Shut down old website

Vote on updated Statutes

Clarify new members appointments and transition in executive