Beyond academia: Careers that put the fun in fungi, a lecture by Sue Van Hook
Sue will be sharing with us an exciting look at the future for fungi-related jobs. The application of fungi in particular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi creates new […]
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Tom Horton – A Mycocentric View of the Wood Wide Web – Friday February 18, 2022 at 7pm
We’ve recently heard Suzanne Simard discuss her revolutionary finding that the trees in the forest are connected to each other by a fungal web and that […]
Noah Siegel – Money in the Bankeraceae; Taking a Bite Into Tooth Fungi – Friday February 25, 2022, 7:00pm
We will explore the group of tooth fungi which include Hydnellum Sarcodon Phellodon and Bankera the latest changes and tips on identification of this tricky group. […]
Machiel Noordeloos – Monitoring and studying the diversity of higher fungi in primary sand dunes along the Dutch Atlantic Coast – Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 1:00pm
The Dutch Atlantic coast is for the most part protected by a system of sand dunes that varies in width from a few hundred meters to […]
Susan Hopkins – Mushrooms, Unique Natural Dyers – Friday, March 18, 2022 at 7pm
This talk will be an introduction to mushroom dyeing. First I will go over basic procedure including preparation and mordanting of the wool creation of the […]
Richard W. Kerrigan – Agaricus of North America – Sunday, March 25, 2022 at 7:00pm (eastern time)
An introduction to the Agaricus genus and how it is organized taxonomically and phylogenetically followed by a series of interesting or representative examples of species in […]
James Scott – On the Trail of the Whiskey Fungus – Friday, April 1, 2022 at 7pm (Eastern Time)
Despite that distillation has been practiced for over 3 000 years only in the past few centuries have social wealth and agricultural bounty coincided to allow […]
William Padilla-Brown – North American Cordyceps Culture – Friday, April 8, 2022 at 7:00pm
In 2015 Cordyceps cultivation was unknown to the public and the small groups of mycologists who were aware of Cordyceps in English-speaking countries did not know […]
Greg Marley – Foraging for Mushrooms; Learn your toxic species! – Friday, April 15, 7pm (Eastern time)
There is a surging interest in wild mushrooms and foraging for edibles. The Northeast’s abundant mushrooms offer a supply of locally sourced tasty food. Many people […]
The Fascinating World of Psychoactive Fungi
This talk will cover psychoactive fungi from a multitude of angles. You'll learn how to identify common psychoactive fungi of the North East in the field; covering species within Psilocybe, Panaeolus, Gymnopilus, Pholiotina, Pluteus and Amanita. We'll survey their use in different cultures from the past to the present, and learn how their unusual biochemistry is being put to therapeutic use. We'll end by looking at their current legal status and how this is expected to evolve with their increasing acceptance.
Michael Warnock – Indoor Fungi – Friday, April 22, 2022 at 7:00pm (eastern time)
Uncontrolled water intrusions in our homes and work spaces can result in unplanned indoor fungal growth. While most of us have encountered mold or mildew in […]
João Araújo – The Biology Behind the Zombie-Ant Fungi – Friday, April 29, 2022, 7:00pm (Eastern Time)
The ability to infect insects arose multiple times along the evolution of Fungi. However none has shown such broad and sophisticated strategies to infect persist and […]
