• NAMA Webinar: Fungi in the Pot: Seasonal Soups for the Forager’s Kitchen

    Join the NAMA Culinary Arts Committee for a deep dive into the warm comfort food of mushroom soups.  Explore their components and variations.  Learn some great, proven recipes that we're certain will become staples in your house.  In this interactive session, committee members from across North America will showcase their favorite culinary techniques, featuring a […]

  • NAMA Webinar: Diversity, Movement and Hybridization of Rust Fungi

    Pine rust fungi are complex, yet fascinating basidiomycetes that cause diseases in forest ecosystems in pine forests throughout North America. This talk will focus on the diversity of pine rust species in western forest, their life cycles and host ranges, symptomology for identification, and importance to forest ecosystem health. During this talk, you’ll also learn […]

  • NAMA Webinar: Alpine Mushrooms of North America

    The true 'alpine' (strictly above treeline) covers over 70 million acres in North America, and yet, before we started our research, it was a mycological blank spot on the map. Now 25 years later, we have made progress in discovering the diversity of mushrooms and their ecological roles in this harsh high-altitude landscape. This talk […]

  • NAMA Webinar: Some Like it Hot: Impact of Fires on Microbial Succession and Traits

    A tale of two dryland fires, examining the impacts of fires in chaparral shrublands versus iconic Joshua trees in the Mojave desert on fungal biomass, richness, composition, and succession. I use multiple methods including field work, molecular work including microbiomes, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and culturing including bioassays, genomics, and transcriptomics to explore the traits of pyrophilous […]