2023 Past Lectures
May 21 / Björn Wergen: DUNG-LOVING CUP FUNGI
Björn Wergen is founder and director of Schwarzwälder Pilzlehrschau, a mushroom school in Hornberg in the Black Forest, southern Germany. The school offers mycology courses and seminars from beginner to advanced levels. He has been studying fungi since 1994 and has a focus on morphology, taxonomy and photographic documentation. Wergen is author of the monumental Handbook of Ascomycota, Volumes 1a & 1b: Pyrenomycetes s.l. (2018).

May 11 / Greg Marley: FORAGING FOR EDIBLE & MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS
Greg Marley’s talk for beginners on the Foolproof Few
During the lecture, Greg mentions a helpful Québecois website: https://www.mycoquebec.org/bienvenue.php

Apr 30 / Christian Vollbracht:
MYCOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION

Mar 30 / Shannon Adam:
UNVEILING THE ENIGMATIC BEAUTY OF CORTINARIUS

Mar 16 / Justine Karst:
DECAY OF THE WOOD WIDE WEB
The ‘wood-wide web’ has captured the interest of broad audiences. Common mycorrhizal networks, namely fungi that physically link roots of different trees together, are purported to be widespread and mediate transfer of resources and signals from trees to seedlings in forests. In this talk, I challenge popular claims about the function of common mycorrhizal networks in forests and highlight the misinformation that has developed in recent years.

Mar 2 / Donald Pfister:
THE USES OF HERBARIA/FUNGARIA

Mar 2 / Donald Pfister:
THE USES OF HERBARIA/FUNGARIA

Feb 16 / Rosanne Healy:
DISHING ON THE CUP FUNGI: THE PEZIZALES & THEIR VARIED LIFESTYLES

Feb 2 / Madeline DeDe-Panken:
GATHERING KNOWLEDGE: MYCOPHILIA IN AMERICAN CULTURE AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
