News and timeline

2019

December 2019: NEFOM was funded with 182 tSEK from SNS and ForBioeconomy for new activities during 2020 under the theme "back to the roots". Kessy Aberenkov, Tartu University, will be the new network coordinator!
June 2019: A new network application submitted to SNS/EFINORD
14-15 January 2019: An intensive two days course on "Identification and publishing HTS/Sanger DNA sequence datasets" in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information see this page: https://sisu.ut.ee/publish-sequence-datasets

2018

22-26 September 2018: NEFOM network meeting with the themes "Fungal ecology in a changing climate" at Oulanka research station, NE Finland, 21 participants. Download program, abstracts and participant list
17-21 June 2018: Network members were organizers of the large conference “Ecology of Soil Microorganisms”, Helsinki.
May 2018: Application for NEFOM activities in 2019 submitted by coordinator (not granted).
12-16 February 2018: PhD course in "Sample preparation for high-throughput sequencing", Uppsala, Sweden, 16 students. Arranged in collaboration with SLU research school Organism Biology. See protocol and participants. (OBS: based partly on 2017 funding)
8-10 February 2018: NEFOM annual network meeting with the themes "Roles of fungi in sustainable forestry" and "Implementing fungal traits to link fungal diversity with ecosystem properties" in Uppsala, Sweden, 55 participants. Download program+participants list. (OBS: based on 2017 funding)

2017

December 2017: NEFOM was funded with 203 tSEK for new activities during 2018 under the theme “Opportunities and threads mediated by forest fungi in a changing climate”.
1-2 June 2017: NEFOM Fungal Trait Jamboree, Tartu, Estonia. A workshop dedicated to mapping of traits on the fungal tree of life.
1 June 2017: Application for extension of NEFOM into 2019 submitted by coordinator.

2016

December 2016: NEFOM was funded with 200 tSEK for new activities during 2017 under the theme “Fungal mediation of sustainable forestry”. Karina Clemmensen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, will be the new network coordinator.
18-21 September 2016: NEFOM annual meeting, Finse, Norway, 33 participants. Download program and see participants.
1 June 2016: New application send to SNS/EFINORD
18-19 January 2016: NEFOM annual meeting in Dragør/Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 participants. Download program and see participants.

2015

June 2015: extention application submitted to SNS/EFINORD (not granted)
18-22 May 2015: Microbial Community Analysis PhD course, Copenhagen, Denmark
24-27 May 2015: Dead Wood Meeting, Lammi, Finland (http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/Teaching/deadwood.htm)
16-20 March 2015: Bioinformatics PhD course, Oslo, Norway

2014

December 2014: NEFOM is extended into 2015 with 22.000 EUR from SNS/EFINORD.
27-28 November 2014: NEFOM annual meeting in Riga, Latvia, 40 participants. Download program and see participants and slides.
June 9-14 2014: PhD laboratory course ‐ Preparing samples for fungal community sequencing co-sponsered between Uppsala PhD school, SIU and NEFOM. SLU, Uppsala. Protocols and participats
May 2014: Application for continuing NEFOM into 2015 is submitted to SNS/EFINORD

2013

December 3 2013: NEFOM is extended into 2014 with 22.000 EUR from SNS/EFINORD.
November 25-26 2013: NEFOM annual conference held in Uppsala, Sweden. Downloan program and see participants.
November 27-29 2013: A NEFOM/SLU organized PhD course on "Bioinformatic treatment of microbial sequencing data" also in Uppsala, Sweden.
June 1 2013: 2nd NEFOM application is send to SNS/EFINORD
May 2013: Network member Dmitry Schigel received Nordic-Russian higher education funding from SIU, Norway for 2013-2015. The programme opens by a lecture-based course” Biodviersity in Dead Wood” http://www.helsinki.fi/biosciences/bbe/courses/523148.htm. The II SIU course will be a next-generation sample preparation course in 2014 in Uppsala and the III is a polypore course held in Russia in August 2014. Finally a a student-oriented conference will be held in Lammi, Finland, in May 2015. For information contact dmitry.shchigel/A/helsinki.fi.
January 31 2013: Kick off steering group meeting in Tartu, Estonia. Shared slides from Kick Off meeting (Kjøller, Kauserud, Oddsdóttir, Schigel)
January 28-31 2013: Network member Urmas Kõljalg organized a UNITE jamboree - a fungal ITS sequence annotation workshop in Tartu, Estonia bringing together networks members as well as many other mycologists internationally

2012

November21 2012: NEFOM is funded with 20.000 EUR from SNS/EFINORD. Rasmus Kjøller, University of Copenhagen, will coordinate the network.
June 1 2012: 1st NEFOM application is send to SNS/EFINORD

Back history of network group

2008-2011 Norforsk network focused on implementing NGS (454) techniches to study fungal communities in soil, roots and wood. Network was applied for by Rasmus Kjøller and chaired by Håvard Kauserud
2002-2007 Norfa/Norforsk network focused on building the UNITE sequence database. Susanne Erland applied for and chaired the network
2001: Susanne Erland (Lund) initiated the collaboration between Nordic labs woring with molecular ecology of fungi witin a meeting in Höör, Sweden