Alan Rockefeller

Alan is a researcher, educator, consultant and speaker specializing in DNA bar-coding, field photography, and fungal microscopy. With a bilingual proficiency developed over 15 years of studying mushroom diversity in Mexico, he leads forays across North America, sparking interest and discovery. His extensive contributions to community science include teaching many mushroom DNA, photography and microscopy workshops and identifying over 300,000 fungi online. As of today, Alan has uploaded more than 700 of his own fungal DNA sequences to Genbank, and he is a co-author on several scientific papers, including publications documenting new species of bioluminescent Mycena and Psilocybe.

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