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
- Background on current efforts
- Naming conventions
- 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?