Join PPMS and Dr. Amy Honan on June 28, 2023 for a fascinating workshop where we will go through the parts of a microscope, look at some prepared slides, and make some of our own slides. Feel free to bring in any of your fungi collections and we can take a look at those. We will practice sectioning fungi, making wet mounts and explore common stains used in fungal identification.
Amy is a mycologist interested in fungal systematics, evolution, ecology, and biogeography. Amy received my B.S. in Biochemistry from Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO where she studied population genetics of the root pathogen Armillaria and water chemistry of the Mt. Emmons Iron Fen. She attended San Francisco State University to complete an MS under Dr. Dennis Desjardin where they studied the fungi of SE Asia. Her master’s thesis investigated the evolution of the saprotrophic genus Basidiomycete genus Tetrapyrgos. Amy earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington School of Environment and Forest Sciences in Seattle, WA. She studied the evolution of stalked puffball genus Tulostoma for her dissertation, including the ecology, biogeography, and an ancestral state reconstruction of the spore morphology. She is currently working with several mycological groups in Colorado documenting the fungal biodiversity and the ecology of fungi from the Rocky Mountains. She teaches a Spring course on Rocky Mountain Fungi, and is currently working on the Colorado Mycoflora project in conjunction with Dr. Andrew Wilson and Vera Evenson from the Denver Botanical Gardens.
This free workshop is open to the public, no registration required. We will be at the UCCS Biology Department
on June 28, 2023 from 6:00pm-8:00pm
134 Centennial Hall, Lab # B-314
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918