Mushroom DNA barcoding for the citizen scientist
Changes in DNA Sequencing technologies over the past decade have greatly reduced the cost of sequencing making it available for non-academics and hobbyists. This presentation will […]
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Tea Party Teleomorphs: Dead-Man’s Fingers and Allied Fungi of the Boston Harbor Islands
Roo Vandegrift Description:Join Dr. Roo Vandegrift for a rapid romp through the Xylariales, an order of ascomycete 'flask' fungi, generally growing on wood and other plant debris. Learn the important families and genera within the order, illustrated with examples taken from an extensive fungal inventory conducted between December 2012 and May 2017 at the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (BHI) in Massachusetts (Haelewaters et al. 2018). A new species, Xylaria finismundoensis, is described: this taxon provides the decomposer 'missing link' for a group of a Xylaria previously only known as endophytes (a type of plant symbiont).
A Systematic Overview of North American Inocybaceae
The Inocybaceae is an ectomycorrhizal family of mushroom-forming fungi with some 1000 species worldwide. Seven genera are now recognized in the family, but the last revision of North American taxa in the group took place nearly 100 years ago. Since this time the number of known species in North America has tripled, and various estimates put the number of species in the family from this area between 300-400. This overview will present an introduction to the family Inocybaceae, some evolutionary and ecological background, and showcase recent systematic developments in the group.
Advanced mushroom observation + identification
Description With the summer mushroom season just around the corner now is the perfect time to work on your observation and identification skills. This lecture builds […]
How to use microscopy measurement software
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Instagram: @elaniobro iNat: @elantrybuch Twitter: @elaniobro DescriptionElan Trybuch researched how to measure spores in his spare time where he discovered a plugin that was part of […]
Forest Ecology and the Mother Tree, a lecture by Suzanne Simard 2/1/2022
Our friends at the Mycological Association of Washington (MAW) have kindly invited us as guests to a Zoom talk by Suzanne Simard that they are hosting […]
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 […]
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 […]
