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WALT STURGEON aka MYCO HOMBRE
Walt is one of the best fungi identifiers there is!
Walter E. Sturgeon is one of the region's foremost mushroom hunters and wrote a long-overdue field guide to finding and identifying the mushrooms and fleshy fungi found in the Appalachian mountains from Canada to Georgia.
This guide by Walt Sturgeon is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond. Walt aka MYCO HOMBRE celebrates more than 400 species in all their diversity, beauty and scientific interest.
BILL YULE aka BOLETE BILL
Bill is a field biologist and teacher at the Connecticut River Museum, in Essex, Connecticut and a member, officer and Education Chair of the Connecticut Valley Mycological Society since 1988.
He has been a principal identifier, lecturer and presenter in major forays in the last 20 years. His specialties are Boletaeceae and insect/fungus relationships.
Bugs, Slugs & Mushroom Thugs
Bill discussed best foraging and collecting practices to avoid getting ill from wild mushroom consumption and educates us about all the little critters that like to feast on mushrooms.
Mushrooms Poisons and Poisonous Mushrooms
This program will examine the main groups of mushroom toxins and how the symptoms of poisoning present themselves, treatment protocols and then a survey of the poisonous and toxic mushrooms in our area and their most common look-alikes.
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JAY JUSTICE
Jay is a founding member and president of the Arkansas Mycological Society and is often called The Indiana Jones of Arkansas Mushrooms for his wide interest in everything fungi, from workshops and talks, to local forays. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-mycological-society-3814/
Jay Justice is a retired epidemiologist who has studied the macrofungi that can be found in the Southern and Southeastern regions of the US for over 35 years. He is a co-founder and scientific advisor for the Arkansas Mycological Society (1982) and a scientific advisor to the Cumberland Mycological Society as well as a chief mycologist for the Missouri Mycological Society.
JAY JUSTICE: AMANITA SPECIALIST
Amanitas arguably are the most recognized and fascinating of all mushrooms.In addition to the genus Amanita, two other groups of the macrofungi that intrigue him are the Chanterelles and the members of the fleshy poroid fungi known as Boletes.
Jay co-wrote the book "Amanitas of North America!" with Britt Bunyard
ALAN ROCKEFELLER, Counter Culture Lab, Oakland, CA
Alan is a mycologist stationed in Oakland, CA where he works out of Counter Culture Labs in support of the Citizen Science Project. He is the prime expert in psilocybin worldwide. His focus is plant and mushroom identification ( especially hallucigenic mushrooms of Mexico), photography, PCR, sequencing, analysis and the phylogeny of basidiomycetes. Alan teach a DNA sequencing class at our Georgia Mushroom Festiva on Sunday, May 22, 2022. RSVP is a must. https://counterculturelab.org
Dr. Roo Vandegrift / University of Oregon
Roo's presentation "Introduction to Ascomycete Fungi" will take place at 3 p.m. on May 21, 2022 in our Speaker Hub:
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LUXURY ACCESSORIES
His latest endeavor is his branching out into the luxury accessory market: here is an example a pure silk scarf he designed recently.
FUNGI T-SHIRTS
Exclusive fungi t-shirts with a message!
ALAN CARROLL
GEORGE G. LAKE, Esq,
GEORGE G. LAKE, Esq,
Alan is the President of the Alabama Mushroom Society and owner of Fungi Farm, the first spawn lab in Alabama and founded in 2018. It is a thriving business dedicated to eduation and mushroom cultivation. https://fungifarmllc.com/
GEORGE G. LAKE, Esq,
GEORGE G. LAKE, Esq,
GEORGE G. LAKE, Esq,
George is a practicing attorney in Baton Rouge, LA. His new book examines the modern scientific literature evidencing the mental health benefits of various psychedelic substances.
He will provide specific legal updates at our MushFest Psilocybin Panel Discussion.
WILLIAM PADILLA-BROWN
William is the owner of MycoSymbiotics, a teacher and explorer.
DR. JEFFERESON L GRAHAM
Dr. Graham is a psilocybin researcher at the University of Birmingham and currently involved with a clinical trial.
THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
TREE OF LIFE
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
KINGDOM OF FUNGI
This tree is based on multiple analyses of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences alone (Hibbett and Thorn 2001; Hibbett and Binder 2002) and analyses that combine protein-coding genes and rRNA genes (Matheny et al. 2007).
ALL ABOUT FUNGI
