British Mycological Society

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Photos of Tariq Butt and Olga Nev, BMS award-winners and speakers at the Annual Scientific Meeting.
Photo of Carol Munro, BMS award-winner and speaker at the Annual Scientific Meeting
Irene Teixido-Orries standing in front of a large screen, showing the title slide for her award presentation.
Photos of 4 invited speakers for the session on 'Fungi and Climate Change', at the Annual Scientific Meeting
Front cover of the BMS journal 'Field Mycology', July 2026, with a photo of a Stinkhorn fungus by Barry Webb.
Photo of Royal Holloway University of London under blue sky
Photo of Olga Nev, BMS award winner and speaker at the Annual Scientific Meeting
Photo of Lynne Boddy, speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting
Aaaron Vogan, Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden - a speaker at the BMS annual scientific meeting
Photo of Daniel Bebber, University of Exeter
Photo of Irene Teixido-Orries, winner of the 2026 Naresh Magan Lecture Award.
BMS Conference Dinner in the Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway University of London
Poster for the conference showing the title 'Soil Ecology in Practice' and 'Submit your abstract by 30 June' above a landscape photo of a river, trees and hillsides.
Photo of Margherita Bertuzzi, University of Manchester - speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2026.
Photo of the Danish artificial island of Peberholm from the air. Credit: Nick-D via Wikimedia Commons.
Project title and summary alongside a photo of the artists and an image of lichen
Poster showing the project title and summary alongside photos of the collaborating artists.
Screenshot of the feedback form, with a photo of pink fungi on a dark background
Photo of Matthew Fisher, Imperial College London - speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2026.
BMS Awards 2026 logo
Photo of white, powdery mildew on leaf of Ranunculus species (Buttercup). Credit: Bjorn S. via Wikimedia Commons
FunDive logo
Photo of Alessia Buscaino, Quadram Institute - speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2026.
A photo of a group of people carrying rucksacs, walking down a grassy pathway between vegetation at Hawkcombe Woods. Credit: Linda Seward
Photo of Michael Bottery, speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting, July 2026.
Photos of the six panel members who assessed applications for the BMS Massee Arts Grant 2026.
Photo of a pile of unevenly shaped Black Truffle fungi (Tuber melanosporum). Credit Patrick Gaudin via Wikimedia Commons.
Figure 1, part C, from Petrolli et al. 2026. Diagram of a tree trunk with coloured dots indicating bark sampling sites.
Annual Scientific Meeting abstract deadline extended to Friday 1st May 2026. Photo of two people in front of poster boards.
Photo of Asiya Gusa, speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting, July 2026.
Annual Scientific Meeting abstract deadline extended to Friday 1st May 2026. Photo of two people in front of poster boards.
Photo of Fabrizio Alberti, speaker at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting, July 2026.
Photograph of Lobaria retigera lichen, showing its leafy shape and brown colour. Credit: D.J.Galloway via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of a poster exhibition, with the text: British Mycological Society Annual Scientific Meeting, 13-16 July, Royal Holloway University of London, Abstract Deadline: 19 April.
Photos of Stephen Dolan and Shafi Mondal, 2026 winners of the Tony Trinci Award.
Five different aquatic hyphomycete spores dyed with aniline blue. Credit: Fay Newbery.
BMS Awards 2026 logo
Chinese red pine trees, Pinus tabuliformis, near the Great Wall of China. Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wandering_angel/
Fungal researcher using a microscope in a lab.
Person carrying a rucksack standing in a clearing between trees, looking out at the view, with the text 'Kingdom Fungi' above the horizon.
Front cover of March 2026 issue of Field Mycology, published by the British Mycological Society
Poster advertising the BMS Annual Scientific meeting abstract deadline of 19th April, with a photo from a past poster exhibition.
View across green fields and tree-lined hills towards Oare House, Exmoor. Photo credit : Roger Cornfoot
Map showing an overview of sampling sites. From: Figure 1 in "Global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" by Lutz et al. Fungal Ecology 74, 2025.
Front cover of the journal 'Field Mycology', with micrograph image of the ascospores of Spirodecospora melnikii by Jacques Fournier.
Underside of the bright orange-yellow cap of a Hygrocybe mushroom on a green background.
Collage pf photos showing the mountains and basin of Campo Pericoli, Italy, and Peziza fungi near melting snow.
Poster advertising the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting, with a photo of the Royal Holloway campus building.
Poster of the call for abstracts fir the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting, with a photo of the Royal Holloway campus building at sunset..
Cross section of the pseudostem of a banana plant with Fusarium wilt, showing vascular necrosis.
Galls induced by Cynipid wasps on Blue Oak leaves. From a paper in Fungal Ecology, February 2026.
Photo of three BMS award winners - Cameron DieKonigin, Penny Cullington and Alick Henrici - holding framed certificates.
Front covers of the four BMS journals
Group of smiling attendees of the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, standing in front of the buildings of the Royal Holloway University of London.
Photo of expert mycologist Geoffrey Kibby presenting in front of screen, on which there is a photo of fungi on a woodland floor.