News and timeline
NEFOM time line:
- OBS:The registration is now open for an intensive two days course on "Identification and publishing HTS/Sanger DNA sequence datasets" in Copenhagen, Denmark on 14-15 January 2019. For more information and link to sign-up see this page: https://sisu.ut.ee/publish-sequence-datasets
- 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
- 12-16 February 2018: PhD course in "Sample preparation for hig-throughput sequencing", Uppsala, Sweden, 16 students. Arranged in collaboration with SLU research school Organism Biology. See protocol and participants.
- 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.
- 1-2 June 2017: NEFOM Fungal Trait Jamboree, Tartu, Estonia. A workshop dedicated to mapping of traits on the fungal tree of life.
- 18-21 September 2016: NEFOM annual meeting, Finse, Norway, 33 participants. Download program and see participants.
- 18-19 January 2016: NEFOM annual meeting in Dragør/Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 participants. Download program and see participants.
- Microbial Community Analysis PhD course, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-22 May
- Dead Wood Meeting, Lammi, Finland, 24-27 May (http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/Teaching/deadwood.htm)
- Bioinformatics PhD course, Oslo, Norway, 16-20 March
- December 2014: NEFOM is extended into 2015 with 22.000 EUR from SNS/EFINORD
- 27-28 November2014: 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
- 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
- November21 2012: NEFOM is funded with 20.000 EUR from SNS/EFINORD
- June 1 2012: 1st NEFOM application is send to SNS/EFINORD
Back history of network group
- 2001: Susanne Erland (Lund) initiated the collaboration between Nordic labs woring with molecular ecology of fungi witin a meeting in Höör, Sweden
- 2002-2007 Norfa/Norforsk network focused on building the UNITE sequence database. Susanne Erland applied for and chaired the network
- 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
