Myco-Consortium Talks

Dina Rashid, 17 February 2022.

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.

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

Date: Thursday April 25th 7:30 ET or Sunday April 28th, 2024, 5:00pm ET
Presenter: Martin Axegård
Topic: Ramaria in Northeastern North America

Date: Thursday May 9th, 2024, 7:30pm ET
Presenter: Robert Blanchette
Topic: Fungal Wonders of the Rotten World

Date: Sunday May 19th, 2024, 5:00pm ET
Presenter: Hans-Otto Baral
Topic: Orbiliomycetes

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

Speaker Series February 15th at 7:30pm

Dina Rashid, 04 November 2021.

Please join us on Zoom this coming Tuesday, February 15th at 7:30pm for our online Speaker Series. 

Patterns of Evolution in the Fossil Record of Fungi

Presented by Ludovic Le Renard

Ludovic was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near Paris.  He completed his undergraduate degree in organismal biology and a Masters in interdisciplinary approach to life sciences in France before moving to Vancouver for his PhD. Ludovic completed his PhD at UBC under the supervision of Mary Berbee in 2019, interpreting the fossil record of fly-speck fungi. Now a Postdoctoral Fellow in UBC, he continues to compare the anatomy of live fungi with similar looking fossils to unveil patterns of fungal evolution through geologic time.

How to Join:

November 18th Speaker Series Video Available

Chris Liberty, 02 December 2021.

Else Vellinga's presentation Fungal Conservation: reasons, venues, and what you and your club can do is now available to MST members to watch on the meetings video page.

Else Vellinga is a mycologist who is interested in naming and classifying mushroom species in California and beyond, especially Parasol mushrooms. She has described 22 species as new for California, and most recently worked at the herbaria at UC Berkeley and SFSU for the Macrofungi and Microfungi Collections Digitization projects. She got her training at the national herbarium in the Netherlands, and her PhD at the university of Leiden. Her main goal is to contribute to the conservation of mushroom species, and for that reason she has proposed several species for the IUCN global database of endangered species. She tries to keep current with the mushroom literature. Else is also an avid knitter and likes to use mushroom dyed yarn for her creations.

October 21st Speaker Series Video Available

Chris Liberty, 12 November 2021.

Anna Bazzicalupo's presentation Benjamin Woo's Russula Herbarium is now available to MST members to watch on the meetings video page.

Anna was born and grew up in Naples, Italy. She went to university for her undergraduate and master's degrees in Scotland. She then pursued a PhD at the University of British Columbia. After a first postdoc at Montana State University in Bozeman she then returned to UBC for a second postdoc. The work she did for her PhD was on the morphology and biogeography of mushrooms. Her work on the Ben Woo collection has helped understand Russula diversity in the Pacific Northwest.