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Friends with Benefits: Plant interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Hi mushfam! On 4/1/24, we’re having a professor from the Salk Institute speak to us about the symbiotic relationship between plants and their arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi friends — make sure to join us!

 

April 1st Speaker: Lena Maria Müller, PhD

**Special Location! 1395 Park Center Drive, Vista, CA**

6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Lecture and Q&A


Bio: I am an assistant professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. My background is in plant biology, with a focus on plant-microbe interactions. Specifically, my lab studies mutualistic plant interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In this symbiosis, plants benefit through increased mineral nutrient uptake and resilience to abiotic and biotic stress, whereas the fungus obtains carbon products from the host plant. We investigate the signaling pathways that allow plants to ensure an optimal balance between carbon costs and the nutrient benefits provided by the fungus. Because ˜80% of all land plant species can engage in a symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, it has important implications for the global carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle, as well as agricultural sustainability.

April Monday Meeting Info Graphic

The speaker's biography and discussion topic are written

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March Monthly Meeting with Bonni Thoresen!

Hello Myco Fam!

Our March Monthly Meeting is coming up this Monday, March 4th with our very own Bonni Thoresen!

Remember to bring in mushrooms you find for identification and looking sporeward to seeing you soon.

Mush love,

SDMYCO

 

 

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Fungus Fair: Guest Speaker Schedule

Check out the Fungus Fair 2024 guest speaker list! We’re so excited to learn from this diverse group of mycologists:

10:00am – 10:55am: Sam Landes on “The World of Fascinating Fungi”

11:05am – 12:00pm: Dr. Cornelia Cho on “Mushrooms as Food and Medicine”

12:10pm – 1:05pm: Dennis Sharmahd on “Introduction to Cultivation with Pleurotus ostreatus”

2:00pm – 2:55pm: Julie Daoust, PhD on “Untangling the confusing world of functional mushrooms; a scientific approach”

3:05pm – 4:00pm: Alan Rockefeller on “Mushrooms of Ecuador”

Looking sporeward to seeing you all in person at our upcoming Fungus Fair!!! 🍄😍

Image of Guest Speaker Lineup

Guest Speaker Dennis Sharmahd flyer
Flyer for Guest Speaker Dennis Sharmahd
Guest Speaker Sam Landes flyer
Guest Speaker Sam Landes flyer at the Fungus Fair
Guest Speaker Dr. Cornelia Cho flyer
Guest Speaker Dr. Cornelia Cho flyer at the Fungus Fair
Guest Speaker Julia Daoust, PhD flyer
Guest Speaker Julia Daoust, PhD flyer at the Fungus Fair

 

Guest Speaker Alan Rockefeller flyer
Guest Speaker Alan Rockefeller flyer at the Fungus Fair
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Monthly Meeting, Mushroom Fair and call for vendors and volunteers…..

Hi MycoFriends!

Call for Fungus Fair Vendors and Volunteers.
If interested, please see details on links below.

FUNGUS FAIR VENDOR

FUNGUS FAIR VOLUNTEERS

***Please keep rain in your thoughts so we can get out into the field and foray!

***Reminder that you can always bring in specimens for identification to our meetings! Let’s show and tell what you’ve found in your local neighborhoods!

Monday, February 5: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Dr. Moselio Schaechter

Saturday, February 17: Annual Foray
10:00am – 1:00pm

Sunday, February 18: Fungus Fair
10:00am – 4:00pm

Monday, March 4: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, April 1: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, May 6: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

See you soon!
🍄
SDMYCO

 

 

 

Also, Check out our Fungus Fair flier on the inside cover of the current January/February issue of The San Diego Floral Association California Garden Magazine

 

Copies of California Garden ($5.00) are available for sale at the following locations:

San Diego Floral Association
Casa del Prado, Room 105
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact Us

Coastal Sage Gardening
3685 Voltaire Street
San Diego, CA 92106
coastalsage.com

Mission Hills Nursery
1525 Fort Stockton Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
missionhillsnursery.com

Walter Andersen Nurseries
3642 Enterprise Street
San Diego, CA 92110
walterandersen.com

Walter Andersen Nurseries
12755 Danielson Court
Poway, CA 92064-6847
walterandersen.com

Marston House Museum and Gardens
Carriage Shop

3525 7th Ave., San Diego, CA 92103
balboapark.org/museums/marston-house

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Fungus Fair 2024 & Art Contest!

Hello MycoPeeps!

*** Remember we will be meeting at room 104 today for the movies ***

Here’s our flyer for our SDMYCO 2024 Fungus Fair!

Tell all of your friends about it!

Links coming soon for volunteers and also…

We have an art contest this year!

SDMYCO ART CONTEST

Categories for the art contest include:
1. Traditional 2D art
2. Sculpture
3. Mixed Media
4. Digital Art
5. Fabric & Fiber Arts
6. Photography

Contest Rules & Guidelines
1. The entrant must be a member of SDMYCO. If not already a member, please sign up on our website before submitting.
2. Each participant may enter up to 6 pieces total in the contest, with no more than 2 entries for any one category.
3. Art must visually depict fungi somewhere in the piece and/or use fungi as an ingredient (including but not limited to dyes, paints, and paper made from mushrooms, dried mushrooms in mixed media, etc.).
4. By entering, the entrant agrees to allow SDMYCO to use submission images in our newsletter, social media, website, printed promotional materials, and anywhere else SDMYCO sees fit. (please include your account name if you would like to be tagged on social media).

Prizes
1. Six participants (one winner from each category) will receive a one-year membership to SDMYCO.
2. Honorable Mentions may be presented for entries found to be of particular interest but that do not place.
3. Winners will be announced via SDMYCO’s channels (e.g., Newsletter, social media, etc.).
4. The physical artwork for both Winners and Honorable Mentions will be displayed at SDMYCO’s Annual Fungus Fair to be held on February 18, 2024, in Balboa Park.

FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE SEE HERE

See you soon!

Mush love,

SDMYCO

 

 

 

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🍄 January 4th meeting info – room 104 🍄

Hello MycoFriends!

We hope you are having a wonderful holiday season and looking forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Monday, January 8: Monthly Meeting in Room 104
***please note the date and room for this meeting***
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Movie Night – Planet Fungi & The Mushroom Manifesto

Let’s settle into the New Year with a double header Movie Night!

Feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages to watch during the show.

We’ll be meeting in Room 104, across the patio from our regular meeting space.

Planet Fungi: North East India

In the ultimate armchair travel adventure, the hero of fungi lovers across the globe, photographer Stephen Axford, is on the hunt for the answers we all want to know. A breathtaking and magical fungi safari to one of the most remote places on the planet – the eastern Himalayas.

The Mushroom Manifesto
Taylor Lockwood’s epic career tale covering decades of discovery, travel, photos, video, and time lapse of mushrooms.

Monday, February 5: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Saturday, February 17: Annual Foray
10:00am – 1:00pm

Sunday, February 18: Fungus Fair
10:00am – 4:00pm

Monday, March 4: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, April 1: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, May 6: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

 

***Please keep rain in your thoughts so we can get out into the field and foray!

***Reminder that you can always bring in specimens for identification to our meetings! Let’s show and tell what you’ve found in your local neighborhoods!

 

See you soon!
🍄
SDMYCO

 

 

 

 

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Yearly Elections!!! +++ Telluride and NAMA recaps!

Hello MycoFriends!

Our Annual Board of Elections is coming up on Monday, November 6. If you’re able to share your time and talents with us, please fill out our Board Member Application so we can get to know you.

We’d like to give a huge shout out to our current Board of Directors who volunteer their time to make our events great! Thank you for all you do!!!

If you are interested in volunteering with us this season, please fill out our application so we can get to know you ahead of the election:

SDMYCO Board Member Application

We’ll have a summer recap by Cassandra Ablola and Steve Farrar after the elections.

To read the current Sporadic Press newsletter, become a member here.

SDMYCO UPCOMING 2023 – 2024 SEASON:

Monday, November 6: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm Annual Board of Directors Elections
7:30pm NAMA & Psychedelic Science + Telluride Recap

Monday, December 4: Monthly Meeting
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Annual Potluck and White Elephant Gift Exchange

Monday, January 8: Monthly Meeting in Room 104
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Monday, February 5: Monthly Meeting
6:45pm Identification
7:00pm TBA

Saturday, February 17: Annual Foray
10:00am – 1:00pm

Sunday, February 18: Fungus Fair
10:00am – 4:00pm

See you soon!
🍄
SDMYCO

 

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Elections and summer recap! Monday 6th

Hello Myco fam!

Our Annual Board of Elections is coming up on Monday, November 6.

If you’re able to share your time and talents with us, please fill out our Board Member Application so we can get to know you.

We’d like to give a huge shout out to our Board of Directors who volunteer their time to make our events great!

Thank you for all you do!!!

https://forms.gle/v8jUbGBFv1iGfSLH6

We’ll have a summer recap by Cassandra Ablola and Steve Farrar after the elections.

See you soon!

🍄

 

 

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