Favorite Fungi: Meet the Parasites & Slimes 

Talk Description:  This talk will introduce you to a variety of fungal parasites, including mushrooms sharing mycelia, rotting Russulas, exploding exoskeletons, and animating arthropods. We'll also look at a few local species that produce tremendous amounts of goo, and generally just get excited about all things weird and wonderful. 

 Speaker Bio: Maria Morrow is a professor of botany and environmental science at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. She grew up in the wonderfully damp city of Seattle and somehow managed to learn nothing about fungi until she moved to California in 2012 and took Terry Henkel’s Forest Pathology course at HSU. Since then, she has been digging in the duff, looking at logs, and even prodding at poop to get a better understanding of this mysterious kingdom of life. She studied fungal genetics and forest pathology at U.C. Berkeley. You can find her on iNaturalist as YipKiyay or every third Wednesday of the month at meetings of the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society.