PPAALLYYNNOOSS ISSN 0256-1670 Volume 41 (1) – 2018 NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PALYNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONTENT OF PAL YNOS VOL. 40 (2) PALYNOLOGICAL P PAGE 1: IFPS BUSINESS CONGRESS (IPC) / PAGE 2: PRESENTATION OF NEW IFPS C (IPC) / COUNCILLORS XITH IOPC PAGE 3: IFPS SO CIETIES’ REPORTS PAGE 8: FUTURE MEETINGS JOINT MEETING, PRAGUE, PAGE 9: PALYNO LOGICAL HOMAGE PAGE 10: NEWS F ROM PALYNOLOGY CZECH REPUBLIC, RELATED FIELDS PAGE 19: CURRENT IFPS AFFILIATED SEPTEMBER 12–19, 2020 SOCIETIES AND COUNCILLORS PAGE 20: IMPRESSUM We would like to invite you to the XVth International Palynological Congress and XIth International Organization of Palaeobotany Conference from September 12th to 19th 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. An international joint meeting of the whole community is dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of Modern Palaeobotany, as IIFFPPSS BBUSINESS 1820 was the starting point of palaeobotanical nomenclature infered from the the first issue of “Flora der Vorwelt” the principal work of the Czech “Father of Palaeobotany“ Kaspar Maria von Sternberg. Palynology and Palaeobotany have a long tradition in the Czech and Slovak Republics 1820 – 2020: 200 YEARS OF with several famous pioneers including 1820 – 2020: 200 Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Karl and Otakar MODERN PALAEOBOTANY Feistmantels, August Joseph Corda, Dionýz Štúr, Karel Bořivoj Presl, as well as world wide known Czech palynologists and palaeobotanists of the modern era e.g. Blanka Pacltová, Milada Vavrdová, Zlatko Kvaček, František Němejc, etc. 1 Scientific programme will cover, in oral and poster presentations, all aspects of palaeo-, actuopalynology and palaeobotany. During the field trips, organized across the time and space, participants will be allowed to see Lower Palaeozoic of the famous Barrandien area, to touch at the Pennsylvanian plants of Western Bohemia, to visit Tertiary and Quaternary sequences at the localities in North Bohemia and Southern Moravia, and last but not least, to know the cultural and natural specificities of the various parts of Bohemia and Moravia. Preliminary programme, deadlines and related informations will be announced via: www.prague2020.cz as well as via: https://www.facebook.com/ipciopc2020 by the middle of August 2018 and during the EPPC meeting in Dublin. Congress Venue: Clarion Conference Hotel Dear Members of the IFPS, (www.clarioncongresshotelprague.com/en) It is my honor to greet you, scientists working It will be our pleasure to welcome you all to and flourishing in the more than 100year old Prague2020! field of palynology. Organizing committee in cooperation with I became the President of the Palynological Conference Partners Prague Ltd. Society of Japan (PSJ) in January 2018. I am an allergist, working at “National Hospital Organization Fukuoka Hospital” in Japan. I PRESENTATION OF NEW will do my best for the PSJ and if called on, for the IFPS for three years. IFPS COUNCILLORS Do you remember the XIII IPC/IX IOPC 2012, in Tokyo, Japan? It took place just a Reiko Kishikawa few months after the Great Tohoku Palynological Society of Japan, PSJ Earthquake, Mw9.0, with its huge tsunami- influenced radioactive pollution in Tokyo. In spite of our anxiety more than 500 members visited Tokyo and the surrounding districts and enjoyed our international meeting at Chuo University, Tokyo. All PSJ members still appreciate your courage and humanity in coming to Japan at that difficult time. Our PSJ was born in 1965 for the purpose of progressing the science related to pollen and palynology. Our Society is tiny but vibrant and friendly because many fields are brought together: Pollen analysis, 2 Aerobiology/Pollinosis, would like to learn from your broad Cytology/Physiology, knowledge of palynology in the IFPS for our Morphology/Taxonomy, current and future comfortable living. Genetics/Thremmatology, Thank you for your attention. Apiculture/Food/Agriculture and the field of Reiko Kishikawa Criminology. Department of ALlergology We officers of PSJ are always supported by National Hospital Oraganization Fukuoka our all of members. National Hospital, Japan My field is Aerobiology/Pollinosis. We have email: kishi(at)mfukuoka2.hosp.go.jp been monitoring airborne pollen as a causative agent of pollinosis in Japan for a long time. In our country conifer pollen (especially Japanese cedar and Cupressaceae pollen) were put into the same category, and are now referred to collectively as “JC”, is the most important of all our pollen allergens. The number of patients with Japanese cedar IFPS SOCIETIES’ pollinosis has increased nationwide since the latter part of the 1970’s. The Japanese REPORTS Government has taken preventive measures against JC pollinosis since 1986. We began to Asociación de Palinólogos de monitor pollen antigens at almost the same Lengua Española (APLE) time using a Durham Sampler (Figure 1). This is a bar chart of the average total tree Recommended terminology for pollen count and percentile of pollen count at aerobiological studies 26 locations across Japan for 2~28 years. The A paper on “Recommended terminology for percentage of Japanese cedar pollen exceeds aerobiological studies” has been recently 40% with Cupressaceae pollen in second published, as brief communication, in the place at about 20% of the total tree pollen journal Aerobiologia. This study has been count. They are still increasing with carried out in the frame of the Working plantation-tree aging and climate change. Group on Quality Control in the European Aerobiology Society (EAS) http://www.eas- aerobiology.eu/ and in the International Association for Aerobiology (IAA) https://sites.google.com/site/aerobiologyinter national/ with the active participation of two members of the Spanish Society of Palynology (APLE); Carmen Galán and Delia Fernández. This proposal aroused as a need on Figure 1. The total pollen counts and prevalence of Aerobiology, an interdisciplinary branch of important pollen counts at each pollen monitored locations. Japanese Cedar (1): in spring, Japanese the Biological Sciences, in which researchers Cedar (2): in autumn. Source: Kishikawa et al. 2016. with heterogeneous backgrounds are involved Regional Distribution of Allergic Tree Pollen in Japan. J in different topics related to microorganisms Geogr Nat Disast S6: 003. doi: 10.4172/2167-0587.S6-003) and airborne biological particles, e.g. pollen and spores, that used a passive transport in Recently the number of patients with food the atmosphere to disperse, and also studies allergy related pollen allergy (Pollen-Food on plant or fungal phenology, to know their Syndrome) has also increased in Japan. So we 3 seasonal behavior in relation to weather and Palynological Association of climate. Palynological Association of Nigeria (PAN) As a result of the above, some concepts, terms or expressions used in aerobiology with Celebrating 50 years (1967-2017) of a clear definition, are however, frequently doctoral scholarshipof Prof. Adebisi missused, so that, we, nineteen researchers Sowunmiat at the University of have agreed to standardize a total of 23 Ibadan. 2nd June 2018. definitions, also defining the way for nd presenting the data obtained in our On Saturday, June 2 , 2018, a one-day investigations. This task is not easy, but it is symposium was held in honour of Professor necessary, in a multidisciplinary science, with M. Adebisi Sowunmi in celebration of 50 much interest in the scientific community and years (1967-2017) of her Doctoral with different applications: agriculture, scholarship in Palynology. Professor forestry and health sciences. Sowunmi was trained in Solna, Sweden by the legendary Prof G. Erdtman from 1964- Here we list these terms in alphabetical order: 1967 for her PhD. Her PhD Thesis ‘’On the Allergen, Allergen concentration, Allergenic, pollen morphology of the Palmae and its Allergology, Annual (or Seasonal) Pollen (or bearing on Taxonomy’’ part of which was Spore) Integral, Bacterium [Bacteria, pl.], published in the Review of Palaeobotany and Bacterial Concentration, Colony-Forming Palynology journal (Sowunmi, 1968, 1972, Unit, Colony Count (alternatively Culturable 1978), remains an invaluable resource in the Bacteria or Fungal Spore Count), Culturable pollen morphology of palms in the tropics, as Fungal Spore Concentration, Fungal Spore, well as their accurate identification in Fungus [Fungi, pl.], Main Pollen (or Spore) deposits of Late Cretaceous Period. Season, Mould (Mold), Pollen (or Spore) Shortly after obtaining her PhD, Sowunmi Allergen Potency, Pollen (or Spore) Allergy established the first palynology laboratory in Potency, Pollen (or Spore) Allergy Risk, a Nigerian University where research and Pollen (or Spore) Calendar, Pollen (or teaching of the fundamentals and applications Spore) Concentration, Pollen (or Spore) of palynology began and continues till date. Count, Pollen Emission, Pollen Grain and She published in Grana two of the best- Pollen Production. known resources on the pollen morphology of Some terms are new and we have presented woody plant species in Nigeria (Sowunmi, which ones have been replaced. 1973, 1995). Sowunmi pioneered Melissopalynology (Sowunmi, 1976, 2001) More information in: and developed Environmental Archaeological Galán C, Ariatti A, Bonini M, Clot B, Crouzy (Ecological Anthropological) research in B, Dahl A, Fernandez-González D, Frenguelli Nigeria. Her palynological study of sediment G, Gehrig R, Isard S, Levetin E, Li DW, cores obtained from the Niger Delta and Mandrioli P, Rogers