Myco-Consortium talk February 16: Rosanne Healy
As part of the MST's membership in the Myco-Consortium series of Zoom talks, MST members are invited to join the presentation on Thursday February 16th at 7pm ET:
Dishing on the Cup Fungi: The Pezizales & Their Varied Lifestyles
A talk by Rosanne Healy
Thursday February 16th, 7pm ET
Rosanne will talk about her travels and work to better understand the relationships, ecology, and life history of the group of fungi that we know as “the cup fungi”. These are the fungi that include the famous black Perigord truffle, delectable morels, and iconic scarlet cups. They also include many lesser known, but fascinating truffles and cup-shaped, columniform, and saddle-shaped fungi. Rosanne has traveled and worked with Don Pfister and a team of truffle mycologists for twenty five years, tracking down data to help fill in the natural history of truffles and cup fungi, to better understand how they are related, what their ecologies are, and how their ancestors moved around to where they are now.
About Rosanne Healy
Dr. Rosanne Healy received her advanced degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota. She did post doctoral work with Don Pfister at Harvard. Her research centers on Pezizomycete systematics, with an emphasis on truffles. She has been working in the teaching program, and as a fungarium manager and research scientist in Matthew Smith’s Lab at the University of Florida since 2015.
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