MycoRise Up! is a mycological student conference. Its main goal is to exchange mycological knowledge between young researchers such as undergraduate and PhD students.
The idea of the meetings of students interested in fungi had initially sprouted in the mind of Sebastian Piskorski, then mycology student. Together with his teacher, dr. hab. Małgorzata Ruszkiewicz-Michalska (both from the Department of Algology and Mycology of University of Lodz, Poland), he developed the conference idea under the auspices of the Polish Mycological Society. The name he gave the conference – MycoRise Up! – meant mycological growing up. The first edition of the conference in 2019 was to be available to every student from the very beginning, no matter the level of studies or involvement in the scientific research. Most importantly, the organizers decided that there could be no financial barrier for attending the conference. Thus, the fee must have been as minimal as possible, and the main financing burden must be shifted to the sponsors. The conference was aimed to be organized by students for students, with the support of the scientific committee.
Edition 2021 was held online on April 23-25 and was organized by the Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan and co-organized by the Polish Mycological Society, with Monika Urbaniak as the head of the organizing committee.
Edition 2022 was organized on May 27-29 by the University of Warsaw and the Polish Mycological Society. This was the first time the conference was open for participants worldwide, with young mycologists arriving (in addition to the whole of Poland) from Macedonia, Germany, China, and Czech Republic.
Edition 2023 took place in Lublin on May 20-21 and was organized by Institiute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Mycological Society.
