Under the auspices of Dr Mostafa M. Kamal, Assiut University President, and Dr Ahmed Abdu Gaeis, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, the proceedings of the sixteenth workshop took place at the AUMC on Medical fungi.  Dr. Abdel-Aal H. Mubasher, Director of the AUMC pointed out that the workshop will continue for the duration of five days and will handle a number of issues including keynote definitions of Medical Fungi, techniques of collecting medical samples, dyeing them, and direct microscopic testing. In addition to this, the workshops will focus on the clinical and symptoms, the fungi causing the illness, and the possible anti-fungal medications used for treatment. Dr Mubasher added that a number of 32 scholar and researcher from Faculties of Science, Vet-Medicine and other national and international scientific centers are currently participating in the workshop and this will benefit faculty members, and assistants at universities and scientific centers.