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MUSHROOM WEEK Scientific impressions


The 19th ISMS congress in Amsterdam offered a program with a lot of variation, with a wide range of subjects. With 489 delegates from


46 countries we can look back on a very interesting event. By Johan Baars and Anton Sonnenberg


All delegates pose for a group picture in the Muziekgebouw, after the Closing Ceremony on June 2. T 14 MUSHROOM BUSINESS


he congress started with a keynote lecture by Günther Pauli, who is a gifted speaker. In his presentation he urged the audience to pay more


attention to implementation of basic mushroom growing skill in poor communities. This would be a way to alleviate poverty. He made a plea for a bigger social impact when introducing mushroom cultivation as a new crop to poor communities. As an example he talked about his adopted daughter who started her own mushroom growing company in Zimbabwe. Susan Koch from South Africa gave a presenta- tion that nicely linked to this keynote lecture. In her presentation she demonstrated how her target group was approached and what was taught during the mushroom cultivation course. Also all delegates at the congress received a USB stick with information from Mbeng Adio Mushroom Farm (MAMF). It’s mission is to create economic empowerment and sustainabi-


lity, by training and investing in local Came- roonian farmers. Another keynote lecture, on microbiome, was given by Prof. Willem de Vos (lecturing professor at the Wageningen and Helsinki University). De Vos gave an intriguing lecture what is in our guts, some fungi but mainly bacteria. They play a very important role in our health and he made clear that many disease are related to the gut flora but solutions to some persistent disease may also lay within manipulating/changing the gut micro- biome. Prof Han Wösten (University of Utrecht) gave an overview of their work on the use of fungi for other purposes than consumption: as a source for hydrophobins with many industrial applications, and the use of fungi as packing materials and even clothing. Also prof Daniel Eastwood gave an interesting keynote lecture on the way in which study of a large number of genomes of wood decaying fungi can give insights on the evolution of fungal wood decay.


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