Monday, February 2, 7:30pm

Zoom link will go to members via email.

Come with us on a (digital) trip to sunny Hawai’i! Dr. Anthony Amend, a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, will highlight some of the remarkable adaptations, functions, and potentials of fungi in the ocean. We’ll discuss how marine fungi are rewriting the rules of evolution and symbiosis, and may hold the keys to cleaning up plastic waste.

Anthony grew up in Chicago, where he had a high-school job conducting mushroom surveys for the Field Museum and was voted “most likely to pick mushrooms in the Himalayas” in his senior yearbook. He went on to pick mushrooms in the Himalayas for his PhD, and is currently a professor at the University of Hawai’i, where he’s interested in how fungal symbioses shape the diversity and distributions of species, particularly in the ocean.