Programme: FCE 2026
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30/03/2026
Monday 13 April
| Session | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| Workshops | 09:00 | 17:00 | Red-listing workshops | ||
| Social | 17:30 | Pub at Artdatabanken |
Tuesday 14 April
| Session | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| Registration | 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | ||
| Opening | 09:00 | 09:15 | Welcome and opening words | Anki Weibull, Susana Goncalves, Mikael Jeppson & Elisabet Ottosson | |
| Keynote | 09:15 | 10:00 | From Ignored Kingdom to Global Priority: integrating fungi in policy and action | Gregory Mueller | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Session 1 – Visualizing fungi in global conservation policies | |||||
| Introductionary lecture | 10:30 | 10:50 | Bridging Science and Policy: The Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation and its Alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework | Cátia Canteiro | Cátia Canteiro |
| Session 1 – continued | 10:50 | 11:10 | IPBES – The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Torbjörn Ebenhard | |
| Session 1 – continued | 11:10 | 11:25 | Regulation of the Three Kingdoms: The Inclusion of Funga under CITES | Mellieha Allen | |
| Session 1 – continued | 11:25 | 11:45 | Tracking IUCN SSC Involvement in Global Fungal Conservation Efforts | Jeffery Stallman | |
| Session 1 – continued | 11.45 | 12:00 | JoNeF within IMPEL: role and expectations | Elisabete Santos | |
| Break | 12.00 | 12.10 | Leg stretcher | ||
| Session 2 – Fungal conservation in practice | 12:10 | 12:30 | Getting fungi into policy – Austria | Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber | Jennifer Anderson |
| Session 2 – continued | 12:30 | 12:50 | Species Recovery in England – Policy, Planning and Delivery of Fungal Conservation | Matthew Wainhouse | |
| Lunch | 12:50 | 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Session 2 – continued | 14:05 | 14:25 | Reintroduction of rare and threatened wood-inhabiting fungi through inoculation and translocation | Joette Crozier | |
| Session 2 – continued | 14:25 | 14:45 | Updating the list of protected species in Estonia: between science and policy | Polina Degtjarenko | |
| Session 2 – continued | 14:45 | 15:05 | Rising to the surface: first steps towards Aquatic Fungi conservation | Isabel Fernandes | |
| Break | 15:05 | 15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Session 2 – continued | 15:30 | 15:45 | Natural Heritage Program North America | Hannah Huber | |
| Session 2 – continued | 15:45 | 16:00 | Resurrecting Important Fungal Areas as a valuable global spatial planning tool | Rachel Hoffman and Rich Wright | |
| Poster session | 16:00 | 17:00 | Poster & exhibition session | ||
| Social | 17:00 | 19:00 | Art exhibition opening party |
Wednesday 15 April
| Session | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| Registration | 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | ||
| Session 3 – Indicator Species and Fungal Mapping for Protection | |||||
| Introductionary lecture | 09:00 | 09:30 | Building fungal monitoring frameworks | Jacob Heilmann-Clausen | |
| Session 3 – continued | 09:30 | 09:45 | From Data to Monitoring and Reporting: Structuring Fungal Indicators for Governance in Europe | Francesca Floccia | Jacob Heilmann-Clausen |
| Session 3 – continued | 09:45 | 10:00 | Indicator performance of habitat diversity for fungi and lichens: thresholds, trait filtering, and implications for conservation in boreal forests | Mari Jönsson | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Session 3 – continued | 10:30 | 10:45 | How well are Red-listed macrofungi protected in Europe? | Ovidiu Copot | |
| Session 3 – continued | 10.45 | 11.00 | Jumping in to aquatic fungal conservation: Mapping diversity and functioning of aquatic fungi in Europé | Jennifer Anderson | |
| Session 3 – continued | 11.00 | 11.20 | CHEGD fungi | Gareth Griffith | |
| Break | 11.20 | 11.30 | Leg stretcher | ||
| Session 4 – Citizen Science engagement in fungal monitoring | |||||
| Introductionary lecture | 11.30 | 11.50 | Can fungal Red Listing efforts guide citizen science projects in Europe? | Danny Haelewaters and Julia Pawłowska | |
| Introductionary lecture | 11.50 | 12.00 | Citizen Science's role in European Fungal Conversation – A qualitative analysis of volunteer mycologists’ motivations, practices and perspectives | Teresa Wolny | Julia Pawłowska |
| Session 4 – continued | 12.00 | 12.10 | Polish Mycological Society as a hub coordinating citizen science efforts in fungal biodiversity discovery and monitoring | Marta Tischer | |
| Session 4 – continued | 12.10 | 12.25 | Fungal genomics to explore fungal diversity and inform conservation | Igor Grigoriev | |
| Session 4 – continued | 12.25 | 12.45 | How MycoMap BC became North America’s fastest-growing fungal barcoding community science project | Elora Adamson | |
| Lunch | 12.45 | 14:00 | Lunch & poster session | ||
| Session 4 – continued | 14:00 | 14:15 | DNA barcoding as a quality control measure in the Citizens for Fungi Diversity Project | Attila Sandor | |
| Session 4 – continued | 14:15 | 14:30 | What makes fungal observations Research Grade? Drivers of data quality on iNaturalist to support conservation efforts | Susana Cunha | |
| Session 4 – continued | 14:30 | 14:45 | Engaging Citizen Scientists in Fungal Conservation through Molecular Biology | Michał Kochanowski | |
| Session 4 – continued | 14:45 | 15:00 | Aquatic Hyphomycetes online group: expanding knowledge on aquatic fungal species diversity and occurrence | Fay Newbery | |
| Break | 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Session 5 – Metabarcoding for Fungal Conservation | |||||
| Introductionary lecture | 15.30 | 15.30 | What can eDNA tell us about impact of forestry on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities? | Björn Lindahl | |
| Session 5 – continued | 15.50 | 15.50 | Integrating Metabarcoding Data and UNITE Species Hypotheses for Red List Assessment of Fungi in Estonia | Urmas Kõljalg & Irja Saar | Björn Lindahl |
| Session 5 – continued | 16.10 | 16.25 | The value of fungal e-DNA studies in assessments of fungal conservation status | Anders Dahlberg | |
| Session 5 – continued | 16.25 | 16.40 | Capturing mycelial traits of fungi to better understand fungal life histories and inform conservation strategies | Kristin Aleklett | |
| Break | 16.40 | 16.50 | Leg stretcher | ||
| Session 6 – Workshop | 16.50 | 18.00 | Round-table: How to move on? | Jacob Heilmann-Clausen |
Thursday 16 April
| Session | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| Excursion | 09:00 | 16:00 | Excursion | ||
| Social | 18:30 | 23:00 | Conference dinner |
Friday 17 April
| Session | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Chair |
| Workshop | 09:00 | 12:30 | Priorities, collaborations and actions for fungal conservation | Malin von Essen; Anders Dahlberg; Elisabet Ottosson | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| Lunch | 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch & final poster session. Poster award announcement | ||
| Session 7 – Fungal red-listing | |||||
| Introductionary lecture | 14:00 | 14:20 | Moving from assessment to planning action for threatened species | Caroline Lees | Susana Goncalves |
| Session 7 – continued | 14:20 | 14:40 | ECM fungi: Calciphilous Abies and Picea associated species of Europe, two threatened elements | Tor‑Erik Brandrud | |
| Session 7 – continued | 14:40 | 15:00 | Extinction risk assessment of the world’s funga | Vida Svahnström | |
| Break | 15:00 | 15:20 | Coffee break | ||
| Session 7 – continued | 15:20 | 15:40 | Red List of the Macrofungi in Poland: from concept to current practice | Izabela Kałucka | |
| Session 7 – continued | 15:40 | 15:55 | The making of Czech Red List of macromycetes: Experiences and future prospects | Lucie Zíbarová | |
| Session 7 – continued | 15:55 | 16:10 | From glaciers to the deep sea: Towards Red-Listing of Aquatic Fungi | Teppo Rämä | |
| Session 7 – continued | 16:10 | 16:30 | Prevalence of Red List DD species limits the application of the EDGE approach for fungi | Susana Cunha | |
| Concluding remarks end of meeting | 16:30 | 17.00 | Concluding remarks | Organization committé |