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Puget Sound Mycological Society – General Membership Meeting (open to the public)
October 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeMEMBERSHIP MEETING Joseph Zapotosky
Have you ever wondered,” How do I make a collection that could be used for further research (DNA sequencing/herbarium vouchered collections?” or “What information should I include when asking another myco-enthusiast an identification ques-tion?”
If so, please join us at our next general meeting when Matthew Koons (current recipient of a Ben Woo scholarship grant) will help answer some of these questions—and more. His talk is entitled “Community Science in Mycology: Vouchering, Ob-servations, and Genetic Sequencing.” The talk will be centered around documenting biodiversity on the iNaturalist platform and includes how to make high quality observations, photog-raphy techniques, vouchering fungal collections, and how to select specimens for genetic barcoding. It will also touch on recent genetic discoveries in the region, sequencing technolo-gies, and how to have your own discoveries barcoded and how you can contribute to community science.
Matthew Koons is an amateur mycologist who is an active field surveyor and fungal genetic researcher out of a home lab in Se-attle, Washington (supported in part by a PSMS Ben Woo scholarship grant). While primarily focused on fungi, he is also interested in broader biodiversity—particularly native plants, arthropods, and intertidal organisms.
We hope you will join us for this meeting, as it is closely fol-lowed by our annual Wild Mushroom Exhibit October 19–20, and details of how you might participate in that exciting show will be discussed.
The membership meeting on October 8, 2024, will be a “hy-brid” meeting both in-person at the Center for Urban Horticul-ture and virtual on Zoom. We will start letting people into the CUH meeting hall at about 7:00 pm and into the Zoom meet-ing at about 7:15. The lecture will begin at approximately 7:30 pm…
Programing note: Dr. Britt Bunyard will be the speaker next at next months meeting.
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