32nd Annual Northeast Mycological Foray
October 15-18 · Eastham, Cape Cod, MA
Boston Mycological Club, host
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Lectures
- "Cantharellus in Eastern United States of America"
- Bart Buyck, Mycologist, Laboratoire de Cryptogamie of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and Curator of its Mycology Herbarium.
"Take a Trip - a presentation in 3D"- Kay Fairweather, Conservationist, naturalist, and 3D-photographer of mushrooms.
"Macromycetes of the Arctic archipelago Svalbard (Spitzbergen)"- Gro Gulden, Professor Emerita, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Curator of the Botanical Museum of Oslo and President of the Norwegian Mycological Society.
"Mushrooms in the Tree of Life"- David Hibbett, Professor of Biology, Clark University.
"Tooth Fungi--A Macroscopic Look at Hydnellum, Sarcodon, Phellodon & Bankera"- Susan Hopkins, Specialist in identification of tooth fungi and in extracting and using dyes from mushrooms.
"Of Mushrooms and Smells"- Renée Lebeuf, Mycologist active with the Cercle des Mycologues de Montréal and noted mushroom photographer.
"Darwin & Mushrooms"- Gary Lincoff, Instructor in mycological botany and ecology at the New York Botanical Garden and author of the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms.
"Cape Cod: A Wonderland of Mycological Surprises"- William Neill, Co-author of Mushrooms of Cape Cod & the National Seashore, and past president of the BMC.
"The Conservation Biology of Fungi: Unknown Losses, Shifting Priorities"- Anne Pringle, Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
"Introduction to Mushrooms for All Ages Methods and Resources"- Sandy Sheine, Education Committee Chair for the NAMA.
"Arsenic in Morels: A Different Approach"- Elinoar Shavit, Contributing editor to
Fungi magazine for medicinal mushrooms, past president of NYMS, and a
mycological lecturer and
writer.
"Boletes of the Northeast"- Walter Sturgeon, expert field mycologist
Rod Tulloss, mycologist specializing in the genus Amanita.
- "Spores Illustrated"
- Tom Volk, Mycologist and Professor of Biology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Workshops, Panels and Field Trips
- Introductory Microscopy Workshop
- Seanna Annis, Assistant Professor of Mycology, University of Maine-Orono.
Panel on Development of Guidelines for Certification of Wild Mushroom Foragers- Seanna Annis, Gregory Marley, Michaeline Mulvey, Maine Mycological Association
Wild Food Walk/Field Trip- Russ Cohen, wild food and foraging expert.
Panel on the Role of the Mycological Herbarium Past, Present, and Future- Herbarium Curators
Beginner Mushroom ID Workshop- Gary Lincoff, Instructor in mycological botany and ecology at the New York Botanical Garden and author of the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushroom.
Lichen Field Trip- Elizabeth Kneiper, lichenologist, President of the Friends of the Farlow.
Dye Free and Live! Mushroom Dyeing Workshop- Ellen Neelands, BMC President.
Ascomycete Microscopy Workshop- Donald Pfister, Principal Mycologist for NEMF 2009, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, Harvard University.
Mushroom Photography Workshop/Lecture- John Plischke III, Chairman of NAMA’s Photography Committee and author of Morel Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Lookalikes.
Mushroom Cultivation Workshop- Wesley Price, avid mushroom cultivator
from Cape Cod.
Lichen Workshop- Michaela Schmull, Lichenologist, University of Göttingen, Germany and Research Associate, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University.
Cooking with Medicinal Mushrooms- Elinoar Shavit, Contributing editor to Fungi magazine for medicinal mushrooms, past president of NYMS, and a mycological lecturer and writer.
Astraeus hygrometricus. Photo by Bill Bynum