2020 Speaker Schedule

Here's a recap of the talks and demos held during the 2020 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair.

You can also browse the list of speakers for the Fair, and visit their bios for more info about them.

A Brief Introduction to the Ascomycetes

Dr. Roo Vandegrift, PhD

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Friday, January 10, 2020

2:15 PM

3:15 PM

Room 1

Friday

An introduction to home cultivation of edible mushrooms

Vellany Pierce

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Friday, January 10, 2020

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Room 3

Friday

An Introduction To Mushroom Identification

Phil Carpenter

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Friday, January 10, 2020

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

Room 1

Friday

A Survey of Poisonous Mushrooms

Henry Young

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Friday, January 10, 2020

4:45 PM

5:45 PM

Room 1

Friday

Mushrooms for the Table: Myths, Facts, Culture and Cooking.

Chef Chad Hyatt

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Room 1

Saturday

Richer Than Gold

Dr. Roo Vandegrift, PhD

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Fungal biodiversity and conservation in a threatened Andean cloud forest reserve.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Room 3

Saturday

The Most Dangerous Fungi in the World

Christian Schwarz

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A Mycological Study in Risk Assessment in a world that is rapidly changing.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Room 3

Saturday

Snowbank Lovers and Fire Followers.

Thea Chesney

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Spring Mushrooms of the Western Sierra.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Room 1

Saturday

Visionary Mushrooms

Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Ph.D., L.Ac

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An overview of the benefits of psilocybin and of the genus of Psilocybe mushrooms for healing and health.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

Room 3

Saturday

Mushrooms of Mexico

Alan Rockefeller

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

2:45 PM

3:45 PM

Room 1

Saturday

The Top Ten Edible and Poisonous Wild Mushrooms

Douglas Smith

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

4:00 PM

5:00 PM

Room 1

Saturday

How to Sequence Fungi

Alan Rockefeller

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How to turn a DNA sequence into useful information and demonstration of how to build a phylogenetic tree.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Room 3

Saturday

An Introduction into Mushroom Cultivation

Vellany Pierce

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Room 1

Sunday

Practical Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms Featuring Reishi

Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Ph.D., L.Ac

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Learn how to choose, prepare and make your own medicines with the best fungi for optimum health and how to evaluate products…

Sunday, January 12, 2020

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Room 3

Sunday

The Mushrooms of Los Trancos Open Space

Douglas Smith

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Room 1

Sunday

What’s new in the mushrooming world of; taxonomy, ecology and citizen science.

Christian Schwarz

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Learn about new species of boletes, hallucinogenic cicadas, matsutake taxonomy and discoveries of East coast mushrooms spreading into California. / Neurogenesis from…

Sunday, January 12, 2020

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Room 3

Sunday

An Introduction into Mushroom Identification (Sunday)

Phil Carpenter

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Room 1

Sunday

Xylariales of the Boston Harbor Islands

Dr. Roo Vandegrift, PhD

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Tea Party Teleomorphs: Dead-Man's Fingers and Allied Fungi of the Boston Harbor Islands. An introduction to Xylariales a very widely distributed a…

Sunday, January 12, 2020

2:30 PM

3:30 PM

Room 3

Sunday

The World's Most Dangerous Fungi

Christian Schwarz

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

3:00 PM

4:00 PM

Room 1

Sunday

DNA Workshop

Alan Rockefeller

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Participants will complete all the steps to generate DNA sequences of the interesting mushroom collections that have been brought into the fair,

Sunday, January 12, 2020

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Room 3

Sunday