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BAMS Past Speakers

5/24 Brian Perry, Illuminating Fungi - the Science of Fungal Bioluminescence
3/2024 Mikhael Crystallah-Selk, Mushroom Parasites
2/2024 Else Vellinga, Spores
11/2023 Todd Elliott, Fungal and Animal Interactions
8/2023 Justine Karst, A Re-Examination of the Wood Wide Web
6/2023 Debbie Viess, Australia: Funga, flora and fauna
4/2023 Peter Werner, Mushrooms of Ireland
2/2023 Peter Pellitier, A functional traits perspective on the mycorrhizal symbiosis
1/2023 John Taylor, Over A Century of Valley Fever
11/2022 Klara Scharnagl, Symbiosis and Ecology of Lichens
9/2022 Monika Fischer, Rising from the Ashes, how fungi survive and thrive after fire
2/2020 John Taylor, Fungi and Art
1/2020 Louise Glass, Fungal Cooperation and Conflict
10/2019 Michael Van Nuland, Fungal Symbioses and Plant Ecological Niches
4/2019 Roo Vandegrift, Xylaria
3/2019 Debbie Viess, Fungal Fun in New Zealand
2/2019 David Rust, What are mushrooms doing in my forest?
10/2018 Douglas Smith, Mushrooms of Los Trancos Reserve
3/2018 Michael Beug, Hallucinogenic Mushrooms as Entheogens:The Use of Psilocybin Mushrooms in Recreation,Mental Health and Spirituality
1/2018 Kingman Bond-Graham, Hunting by Habitat
11/2017 Trent Pearce, Common Fungi of the East Bay
10/2017 Debbie Viess, Amanita Toxins - Deep Analysis and Mythbusting
5/2017 Anna Bazzicalupo, Benjamin Woo's Russula Herbarium and his contribution to science
4/2017 Cornelia Cho, Mushrooms from a Korean Perspective
3/2017 Douglas Smith, Sympathy for the Little Guys
1/2017 Tom Bruns, Complexity, Simplicity, and Convergence – a tour through the evolutionary history of the Basidiomycota
11/2016 Rick Kerrigan, Agaricus of North America
10/2016 Debbie Viess, California Myco-Wizard in the Land of OZ
5/2016 Nhu Nguyen, Species Identity Crisis in the Genus Suillus
2/2016 Danny Miller, Mythbusters, or Fungal Fables Debunked
1/2016 Tom Volk, The Seven Deadly Sins Committed by Fungi
11/2015 Laura Bogar, Can plants choose their ectomycorrhizal fungal partners?
10/2015 Tom Bruns, Microscopy Workshop
5/2015 Tom Bruns, Forest Fires and Fungi: Losers, Winners and Strategies
4/2015 Todd Mitchell, MD, New Developments in the Treatment of Amatoxin Poisoning
3/2015 Jason Hollinger, Tales from the Crypt(ogams): the Lichen Files
2/2015 Dennis Desjardin, A New Field Guide to California Mushrooms
1/2015 Alan Rockefeller, Mushrooms of Mexico
11/2014 Michael Beug, For the Love of Ascomycetes
10/2014 Peter Kerr, What's Bugging Fungi?
5/2014 Tom Bruns, Roles of Fungi in Forest Ecosystems
4/2014 Sara Branco, Understanding fungal diversity from a population perspective
3/2014 Shannon Nix, Molding Human History: The biology, evidence, and speculation behind mycotoxicoses
2/2014 Douglas Smith, Fungi of Switzerland
1/2014 Tom Volk, Exposé: The secret sex lives of fungi
11/2013 Dylan Smith, Effects of Induced Climate Warming on Soil Fungi in Temperate and Boreal Forests
10/2013 Sydney Glassman, Investigating Drivers of Fungal Diversity in Yosemite National Park
5/2013 Stephanie Jarvis, The Lycoperdaceae of California
4/2013 Matthew Smith, Ecto-mycorrhizal Species of the Sierra foothills
3/2013 Peter Werner, Mushrooms and Microscopy
2/2013 Walt Sturgeon: Just For the Smell of It, Mushroom Common Scents
1/2013 Denis Benjamin: Newly Described Mushroom Poisoning Syndromes
11/2012 Rytas Vilgalys: Mushrooms and Climate Change: Fungi in a Changing World
10/2012 Terry Henkel, The weird, wicked, and wonderful: new and interesting macrofungi from the Guiana Shield
9/2012 Nhu Nguyen, The inner workings of mushroom taxonomy: new mushroom species and how to describe them
5/2012 Alan Rockefeller, Mushrooms of Mexico
4/2012 Jenny Talbot, Dishing the Dirt on Decomposition
3/2012 Rosalind Lowen, Ascomycetes: Eastside— Westside, fungi that can be found in both areas of the US
2/2012 David Pilz, Wild Mushroom Management in Spain
1/2012 Christian Schwarz, A California Mushroomer in Yankee Forests
11/2011 Matt Trappe, Shaking the Fungal Tree of Life
10/2011 Leon Shernoff, Boletes come of age
9/2011 Todd Osmundson, Burn Morels in the DNA Age
4/2011 Christian Schwarz, The Molecular Cookbook - A down-to-earth guide to understanding DNA technology and its applications in mushroom taxonomy
3/2011 Louise Glass, Fungal Communication and the Formation of Hyphal Networks

2/2011

Langdon Cook, From Woods to Plate: Wild Mushroom Cookery
1/2011 Denis Benjamin, MD, Medicinal Mushrooms: A Critical Assessment
12/2010 Noah Siegel, What Now?: Name Changes in the DNA Age
11/2010 Steve Trudell, The Making of a Mushroom Book
10/2010 Brice McPherson, Sudden Oak Death in Coast Live Oaks: It Takes a Community
5/2010 Peter Werner, Psilocybe and Allies of California
4/2010 Michael Beug, The Snowbank Mushrooms and Western Spring Basidiomycetes
3/2010 Anthony Amend, Local perceptions of Matsutake mushroom management, in NW Yunnan China
2/2010 Todd Osmundson, Conservation of Fungi: Issues, Tools, and a Call for an Amateur Mycological Renaissance
1/2010 Tom Volk, Naming the Polypores: Why Polyporus is split into more than 100 genera
11/2009 Dimitar Bojantchev, Introduction to the Genus Cortinarius
5/2009 Todd Elliot, Cordyceps Fungi of the Appalachians
4/2009 Moselio Schaechter, Mushrooms Through the Ages
3/2009 Maggie Rogers, Hooked on Mushroomers
2/2009 Kabir Peay, Fungi on Islands — From Point Reyes to Borneo
1/2009 Noah Siegel, Australian Oddities: Mushrooms and other Strange Organisms from Down Under
11/2008 Mike Davis, A Phylogeny of Russula Species in Northern California
10/2008 Else Vellinga, Mushrooms - Paths of Discovery
5/2008 Nathan Wilson, Mushroom Observer
3/2008 Denise Gregory, Endophytic Fungi: An Overview and Current Medicinal Research
2/2008 Todd Mitchell, MD, New American Protocols for the Treatment of Amatoxin Poisoning
11/2007 Debbie Viess, A Mushroomer's Guide to Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Bay Area
10/2007 Walt Sundberg, An Old California Surfer's Endless Foray