EMIL LANG LECTURE SERIES FOR 2026
February 4, 2026
Get your tickets!: Our Winter Banquet is Thursday, March 12th
February 12, 2026
The Myco-consortium Lecture Series presents a slate of excellent speakers via zoom. These presentations are available to over a dozen mushroom clubs from across the country. They are organized by Tom Bigelow (former NYMS president) and Susan Goldhor (former Boston Mycological Club president). Here is the schedule for the coming weeks and months:
Surveying Black Mycologies
Maria Pinto
Thursday, February 5th, 7:30pm EST
From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung
Sigrid Jakob/Alfred Drummond-Herdman/Darren Gordon
Sunday, February 22nd, 10:00AM (note the early start time)
The Domestication of Mushrooms and Micro-Fungi
Charlie Bruder
Thursday, March 19th, 7:30pm EST
Elinoar Shavit, who was scheduled to speak to us on 3/19 has cancelled, due to illness.
Rust Fungi of the Northeast
Andrew Cannon
Thursday, March 26th, 7:30pm EST
The Mushroom Guru of Sligo Road: The Life of Sam Ristich
David Rose
Thursday, April 16th, 7:30pm EST
Why Are Mushroom Poisonous, Anyway? (and do the chemistries of death caps and fly agarics explain their invasions?)
Thursday, April 30th, 7:30pm EST
Anne Pringle
