Fungus Fair 2020 - Program Schedule
The Fungus Fair has two main speaking venues: the main room (Room 3) is where you'll find our headliners. Entry passes to Room 3 will be available outside the room 30 minutes prior to the scheduled presentation. A smaller lecture room (Room 1) down the hall has informative and educational talks about mushrooms, given by local, knowledgeable mycologists. The schedule for these rooms is listed below. Visit the Kid's Room (Room 7) for mushroom activities such as clay sculpture, water colors, face painting, and making mushroom dyed fabric. Join us Saturday and Sunday 10:00 – 4:00. You can also ask questions about mushrooms you have brought to the fair in the main auditorium at the mushroom identification table, staffed by our best identification experts.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Room 3
| 2:30 - 4:00 | An introduction to home cultivation of edible mushrooms | Justin Pierce |
| 5:30 - 9:30 |
After Hours Mushroom Dinner - separate admission |
Details and Reservations |
Room 1
| 2:15 - 3:15 | A Brief Introduction to the Ascomycetes | Roo Vandegrift |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | An Introduction To Mushroom Identification | Phil Carpenter |
| 4:45 - 5:45 | A Survey of Poisonous Mushrooms | Henry Young |
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Room 3
| 10:30 -12:00 | Richer Than Gold: Fungal biodiversity and conservation in a threatened Andean cloud forest reserve. | Dr. Roo Vandegrift, Ph.D |
| 12:30 -1:30 | The Most Dangerous Fungi in the World: A Mycological Study in Risk Assessment in a world that is rapidly changing. | Christian Schwarz |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Visionary Mushrooms - An overview of the benefits of psilocybin and of the genus of Psilocybe mushrooms for healing and health. | Dr. Christopher Hobbs |
| 4:00 - 5:30 | How to Sequence Fungi by turning a DNA sequence into useful information and demonstration of how to build a phylogenetic tree. | Alan Rockefeller |
Room 1
| 10:30 -11:30 | Mushrooms for the Table: Myths, Facts, Culture and Cooking. | Chef Chad Hyatt |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Snowbank Lovers and Fire Followers. Spring Mushrooms of the Western Sierra | Thea Chesney |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Mushrooms of Mexico | Alan Rockefeller |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | The Top Ten Edible and Poisonous Wild Mushrooms | Douglas Smith |
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Room 3
| 10:30 -12:00 | Practical Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms Featuring Reishi: Learn how to choose, prepare and make your own medicines with the best fungi for optimum health and how to evaluate products on the market. | Dr. Christopher Hobbs |
| 12:30 -1:30 | What’s new in the mushrooming world of; taxonomy, ecology and citizen science. Learn about new species of boletes, hallucinogenic cicadas, matsutake taxonomy and discoveries of East coast mushrooms spreading into California. / Neurogenesis from Psilocybin and Analogs: A Paradigm Shift in Medicine? | Christian Schwarz / Paul Stamets |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Xylariales of the Boston Harbor Islands: Tea Party Teleomorphs: Dead-Man's Fingers and Allied Fungi of the Boston Harbor Islands. An introduction to Xylariales a very widely distributed and common mushroom | Dr. Roo Vandegrift, Ph.D |
| 4:00 – 5:30 | DNA workshop where participants will complete all the steps to generate DNA sequences of the interesting mushroom collections that have been brought into the fair | Alan Rockefeller |
Room 1
| 10:30 -11:30 | An Introduction into Mushroom Cultivation | Justin Pierce |
| 12:00 -1:00 | The Mushrooms of Los Trancos Open Space | Douglas Smith |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | An Introduction into Mushroom Identification | Phil Carpenter |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | The World's Most Dangerous Fungi | Christian Schwarz |