Alberta Mycological Society

2019 Annual General Meeting - Lunch
2019-03-23 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Edmonton) | University of Alberta Faculty Club, 1435 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G9, Canada
Enjoy a buffet soup and salad selection prepared by the University of Alberta Faculty Club!
Selection includes:

Fresh Buns
Cream of Mushroom Soup (GF, Vegetarian)
Chicken Rice Soup (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
Coleslaw (Contains gluten)
Mixed Greens Salad (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
Caesar Salad

Location: Saskatchewan Room
Parking

Members are respectfully reminded that their parking decal is only valid in V-lot between 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Overflow parking is available in the Windsor Car Park, members and guests must purchase parking tickets. For more information regarding rates please visit: https://www.albertamushrooms.ca//asinfo.ualberta.ca/en/ParkingServices/Visitor-Parking.aspx
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With the goal of keeping parking spaces free for our lunchtime members and guests, any vehicles parked in the V-Lot outside of these hours without a valid dispenser ticket will be ticketed by Parking Services.

We welcome Dr. Richard Summerbell, Canadian mycologist from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health as he presents on the following:
Why Do Humans Have So Many Fungal Skin Rashes and Why Are the Fungi Involved so Darn Pretty in Culture?
Many people in biology have an eye for things that are beautiful, and, in the medical laboratory, this tends to lead people to want to work at the Mycology bench. The apparently yucky dermatophyte fungi that cause athlete’s foot, ringworm, and much of what we call ‘jock itch’ grow out as stunningly attractive red, yellow and cream-coloured colonies with dramatic spores, intriguing spiral barbs and eccentric sex lives. Working with them is so addictive that it’s all managers can do to get techs to go back to the bacteriology bench. These (the fungi, not the workers) are mysterious organisms. Most animal species, or even whole family-level groups like ‘the cat family’ (Felidae), have at most one dermatophyte species that regularly colonizes them. Humans, meanwhile, have at least nine ringworm fungi specifically adapted to grow on us! What made our species the Galapagos Islands of the ringworms? Investigation showed that our habit of domesticating different animals – either deliberately, like the horse, or accidentally, like the rat – caused us to collect new ringworms that adapted to us by genetically host-jumping. In addition to scratching our heads, they do give us a lot to think about. Such as “why are they so brightly coloured in culture when they are never colourful in their normal growth on skin?”
Please purchase tickets by March 19, 2019.

2019 AMS Annual General Meeting
2019-03-23 09:30 - 15:00 | University of Alberta Faculty Club, 1435 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G9, Canada
We welcome members to join us at our 2019 AGM. This event will be held at the University of Alberta Faculty Club in the Saskatchewan Room.

Parking

Members are respectfully reminded that their parking decal is only valid in V-lot between 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Overflow parking is available in the Windsor Car Park, members and guests must purchase parking tickets. For more information regarding rates please visit: https://www.albertamushrooms.ca//asinfo.ualberta.ca/en/ParkingServices/Visitor-Parking.aspx
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With the goal of keeping parking spaces free for our lunchtime members and guests, any vehicles parked in the V-Lot outside of these hours without a valid dispenser ticket will be ticketed by Parking Services.

Please RSVP by March 19, 2019. Note that this DOES NOT include Lunch, however if you are interested, lunch tickets and more information can be found here.

AMS Spring Speaker Series: Mr. Carleton Gruger
2019-03-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Edmonton Public Library – Idylwylde (Bonnie Doon), 8310 88 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6C 1L1, Canada
The AMS welcomes Mr. Carleton Gruger, Owner and Operator of Gruger Family Fungi. Mr. Gruger will give the following presentation:
Growing Mushrooms on Waste: How Hemp and Mushrooms can Save Agriculture.
This is a public event and is first come, first seated. We hope to see you there!
We encourage you to visit their website here to find out more! Images graciously provided by Gruger Family Fungi.

Christmas Day
2018-12-25 | North Pole, Antarctica
Merry Christmas to all members!
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Mushroom Cultivation 101
2018-11-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Nose Hill Library, 1530 Northmount Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2L 0G6, Canada
Tara Stephens will give a talk outlining the cultivation process and some common species and techniques for growing mushrooms at home.
Tara is a conservation biologist with a keen interest in permaculture, local food systems and community building. Although she works primarily with endangered wildlife, her deeper interests lie in building regenerative ecosystems at a variety of scales that include human beings.
Tara is intrigued by the ecological, medicinal and nutritional roles that fungi play and excited to collaborate with others to learn how to continue to integrate fungi into our food systems, ecosystems and lives.
