Funky Fungal Farts
The Mycological Society of San Francisco has been hosting 1 or 2 Fungus Fairs each year since 1969. Fairs have been held in San Francisco County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, and Marin County. Historical information is available about previous Fungus Fairs:Cat Adams is interested in how chemistry influences interactions between fungi and other living things. Cat earned her Master’s with Anne Pringle at Harvard University, where she researched fungal pathogens of wild Bolivian chili peppers, and how the fungi evolved tolerance to spice.
For her PhD in Tom Bruns’ lab at UC Berkeley, Cat studied the chemical ecology of Amanita phalloides, the death cap mushroom. She also collaborated with Fayuan Wang, studying how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can help plants cope with nanoparticle pollution.
Now as a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Louise Glass’s lab, Cat researches the root-associated fungus Trichoderma atroviride, and how its fungal farts impact plants and bacteria.
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Past Fairs