Myco-Consortium Talks
In 2022 the MST joined forces with a group of mycological clubs across North America. These clubs all have access to the same live Zoom talks on everything fungi.
Myco-Consortium talks usually run every second Thursday evening through the spring. Most talks are recorded and links are posted on this page so that they can be viewed at a later date. MST members have access to all the recordings and the live Zoom talks.
Myco-Consortium talks are a benefit included with MST membership, in addition to the MST's own members-only Speaker Series talks which run through the winter
Video links of past talks are below for members who are signed in.
2025 Myco-Consortium Zoom Talks
Date: Thursday February 13, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Eugenia Bone
Topic: Bumps in the Road: The Challenges of Mainstreaming Magic Mushrooms
Date: Thursday February 20, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Madeline Dede-Panken
Topic: 19th-Century Field Fights: How The Rise of Popular Mycology Made Foraging White
Date: Thursday March 13, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Topic: Mary Elizabeth Banning
Date: Thursday March 27, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Don Pfister
Topic: Herbaria and the MycoPortal
Date: Thursday April 24, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Benton Taylor
Topic: Mycorrhizal Fungi Supporting Forests of the Future
Date: Sunday May 4, 2025, 11:00am ET
Presenter: Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Topic: Combining Citizen Science, Traditional Taxonomy and Barcoding to Expand Knowledge on Fungal Biodiversity in Denmark – and Beyond
Date: Thursday May 8, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Jonathan Gewirtzman
Topic: The Hidden Life Inside Trees
Date: Thursday May 22, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Ryan Stephens
Topic: Mammals, Truffles, and Trees: Linking Above- and Below-ground Interactions
Date: Thursday June 5, 2025, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Aishwarya Veerabahu
Topic: The Midas Mushroom: Ecological Impacts of Invasive Golden Oyster Mushrooms
Date: TBD
Presenter: Alison Pouliot
Topic: In conversation from Australia on mushroom ecology, habitat restoration and photography
2024 Myco-Consortium Zoom Talks
Date: Thursday January 25, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Rachel Swenie
Topic: Diversity and Evolution of Chanterelles and Allies
There is no recording for this talk
Date: Thursday February 8, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Primrose Boynton
Topic: Yeasts: The Enormous Diversity of Single-Celled Fungi
Date: Sunday February 18th, 2024, 5:00pm ET
Presenter: Sarah Lloyd
Topic: Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf, Northern Tasmania – A Slime Mo(u)ld Hotspot
Date: Thursday February 29th, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Alfredo Justo
Topic: The Genus Pluteus in North America: 100 Species and Counting
Date: Thursday March 14th, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Anne Pringle
Topic: Last Chance to Know? The Changing Biogeography of Mushrooms and The Death Cap in California
Date: Thursday April 4th, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Damon Tighe
Topic: iNaturalist: Observing Mushrooms, Making Data, Motivating Mycologists Through Project Stewardship
Date: Sunday April 14th, 2024, 10:00am ET
Presenter: Kaisa Junninen
Topic: Succession of Polypore Fungi Over 33 Years After Restoration Fire
There is no recording for this talk.
Date: Sunday April 28th, 2024, 11:00am ET
Presenter: Martin Axegård
Topic: Not All Coral Fungi Are Ramaria: Field Characters and Taxonomy of Ramarioid Fungi Within the Order Gomphaceae
Date: Thursday May 9th, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Robert Blanchette
Topic: Fungal World Wonders
Additional material from the talk: https://forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/publications
Date: Sunday May 19th, 2024, 11:00am ET
Presenter: Hans-Otto Baral
Topic: Orbiliomycetes: a diverse, species-rich group of inoperculate discomycetes with fascinating morphology and peculiar ecology
2023 Myco-Consortium Zoom Talks
Date: Thursday February 2, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Madeline Dede-Panken
Topic: American Mycophilia at the Turn of the 20th Century
Date: Thursday February 16, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Rosanne Healy
Topic: The Pezizales & Their Varied Lifestyles
Date: Thursday March 2, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Donald Pfister
Topic: The Uses of Herbaria/fungaria
Date: Tuesday March 7, 2023, 8pm
Presenter: Noah Siegel
Topic: Under Pressure: Evolution Oddities in the Fungal World
Extra meeting courtesy of the Mycological Association of Washington DC
Date: Thursday March 16, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Justine Karst
Topic: The Decay of the Wood Wide Web?
Date: Thursday March 30, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Shannon Adams
Topic: Unveiling the Enigmatic Beauty of Cortinarius
Date: Thursday April 13, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: James Dalling
Topic: Seed - Fungal Relationships
Date: Sunday April 30, 2023, 11am ET
Presenter: Christian Volbracht
Topic: Mycological Illustration: History, Techniques, Problems
Date: Thursday May 11, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Greg Marley
Topic: Foraging Edible Wild Mushrooms for the Beginner; Develop your Foolproof Few
Date: Sunday May 21, 2023, 11am ET
Presenter: Bjorn Wergen
Topic: Dung Fungi
Date: Thursday June 1, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Zachary Hunter
Topic: Mycological Mexico: Oaxaca Edition
Date: Thursday June 15, 2023, 7pm ET
Presenter: Keith Seifert
Topic: Three Microfungi That Changed the World
There is no recording for this talk
2022 Myco-Consortium Zoom Talks
Date: Friday February 18, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: Tom Horton
Topic: Mycocentric view of the wood wide web
Date: Friday February 25, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: Noah Siegel
Topic: The Bankeraceae
Date: Sunday March 6, 2022, 1pm ET
Presenter: Machiel Noordeloos
Topic: Monitoring and studying the diversity of higher fungi in primary sand dunes along the Dutch Atlantic Coast
Date: Friday March 18, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: Susan Hopkins
Topic: Dye Fungi
Date: Friday March 25, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: Richard W. Kerrigan
Topic: Agaricus of North America
There is no recording for this talk
Date: Friday April 1, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: James Scott
Topic: On the Trail of Whiskey Fungus
Date: Friday April 8, 2022, 7pm ET
Presenter: William Padilla-Brown
Topic: Cordyceps
Date: April 15, 2022
Presenter: Greg Marley
Topic: Mushroom poisonings
Date: April 22, 2022
Presenter: Michael Warnock
Topic: Indoor Fungi
Date: April 29, 2022
Presenter: Joao Araujo
Topic: The Biology Behind the Zombie Ant Fungi
Date: May 3, 2022
Presenter: Kurt Miller
Topic: Diversity of Tropical Fungi in Puerto Rico
Date: May 6, 2022
Presenter: Cathie Aime
Topic: Illuminating the Dark Fungi
Date: May 13, 2022
Presenter: Sigrid Jacob
Topic: An Introduction to DNA Sequencing
Date:June 10, 2022
Presenter: Jacob Kalichman
Topic: Mushroom Forms, or: Macro-macromorphology
Date: June 12, 2022 - 2:00pm
Presenter: Henry Beker
Topic: The Hebeloma Project: Database to Website and Development of an AI Species Identifier
Date: June 17, 2022
Presenter: Sarah DeLong-Duhon
Topic: Rediscovering Common Species Using Molecular Biology: Stereum ostrea and Its Forgotten Cousins
Date: June 19, 2022 11am ET
Presenter: Leif Ryvarden
Topic: A Life Among Polypores