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2020 Fair Speakers

Visitors at the 2020 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair were treated to great talks by these speakers.

Talks:

  • Saturday: Mushrooms of Mexico
  • Sunday: How to Sequence Fungi
  • Monday: DNA Workshop

Alan Rockefeller

Researcher and Photographer

Talks:

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

Chef Chad Hyatt

Chef and Author

Talks:

  • Saturday: The Most Dangerous Fungi in the World
  • Sunday: What’s new in the mushrooming world of; taxonomy, ecology and citizen science.
  • Sunday: The World's Most Dangerous Fungi

Christian Schwarz

Research Associate | UCSC

Talks:

  • Sunday: The Top Ten Edible and Poisonous Wild Mushrooms
  • Sunday: The Mushrooms of Los Trancos Open Space

Douglas Smith

Photographer, Educator, and FFSC Science Advisor

Talks:

  • Saturday: Visionary Mushrooms
  • Sunday: Practical Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms Featuring Reishi

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

Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Talks:

  • Friday: A Brief Introduction to the Ascomycetes
  • Saturday: Richer Than Gold
  • Sunday: Xylariales of the Boston Harbor Islands

Dr. Roo Vandegrift, PhD

Mycologist and Illustrator

Talks:

  • Saturday: A Survey of Poisonous Mushrooms

Henry Young

FFSC Science Advisor, Foray & ID Specialist, Willamette Valley Mushroom Society

Talks:

  • Friday: An Introduction To Mushroom Identification
  • Sunday: An Introduction into Mushroom Identification (Sunday)

Phil Carpenter

FFSC Science Advisor, NAMA Representative, and past CEO

Talks:

  • Saturday: Snowbank Lovers and Fire Followers.

Thea Chesney

Naturalist

Talks:

  • Friday: An introduction to home cultivation of edible mushrooms
  • Sunday: An Introduction into Mushroom Cultivation

Vellany Pierce

FFSC Prime Minister

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