The Symposium was held at Hotell Saaremaa in M\u00e4ndjala, ca 11 km southeast of Kuressaare, the capital of the Saaremaa Island.\u00a0<\/span>
Seventy six persons from twelve countries \u2013 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Russia \u2013 came to M\u00e4ndjala.\u00a0<\/span>
The final list of participants<\/a>
PROGRAMME<\/span>
The programme of the Symposium is available here.<\/span>
<\/span>XVII BML programme<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
PUBLICATION<\/span>
The abstracts of presentations were published in: Saar I, Suija A (Eds.). 2008. XVII Symposium of the Baltic Mycologists and Lichenologists. Estonia, Saaremaa, M\u00e4ndjala, 17-21 September 2008. Abstracts. Tartu University Publishing, Tartu. 40 p. ISBN 978-9949-11-955-4.<\/span>
The full-length papers based on the lectures and posters will be published in 2008 or 2009 issues of Folia Cryptogamica Estonica according to the usual rules of the journal. Additional information is available at\u00a0<\/span>Folia Cryptogamica Estonica<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>
CONTACT<\/span>
Irja Saar<\/span>
Estonian Mycological Society<\/span>
E-mail:\u00a0<\/span>irja.saar@ut.ee<\/a>
Address:<\/span>
40 Lai Str., 51005 Tartu, Estonia<\/span>
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<\/span>
Irja Saar, Kadri P\u00e4rtel, Tiiu T\u00f5rra, Lauri Saag (Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu)<\/span>
Kadri P\u00f5ldmaa, Ave Suija (Natural History Museum, University of Tartu)<\/span>
Indrek Sell (Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences)\u00a0<\/span>
The group photo was made in Odal\u00e4tsi (19 September 2008).<\/span><\/p>![\"The](\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/file45ede4f9f8cf433e62d125424a7d8369.jpg\" "\\"The")
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