Myco-Consortium talk June 5: Aishwarya Veerabaho
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, June 5th at 7:30pm EDT:
The Midas Mushroom: Ecological Impacts of Invasive Golden Oyster Mushrooms
A talk by Aishwarya Veerabaho
Thursday June 5th, 7:30pm EDT
Golden oyster mushrooms (GOM; Pleurotus citrinopileatus) have become the new friendly neighborhood, easily found, edible mushroom- but are they friendly neighbors to local fungi? In this talk, we’ll discuss our findings regarding GOM’s negative impacts, where it could spread to next, and how you all can help out with the research moving forward!
About Aishwarya Veerabaho
Aishwarya Veerabahu is a 3rd year Botany PhD candidate, studying fungal ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Dr. Anne Pringle, with a PhD minor in Life Science Communication, advised by Dr. Dominique Brossard. She is broadly interested in studying fungal biodiversity, drivers of diversity, cross-kingdom interactions, science communication, and science policy concerning fungi (or the lack thereof!). When she’s not doing science, she’s jamming out with her band.
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