Join mycologists Alan Rockefeller and William Padilla Brown for a workshop on fungal microscopy. This workshop will cover basics and intermediates of using a microscope and how to use one for mushroom identification. Learn how to prepare slides and look at the microscopic features of mushrooms, and more importantly how to turn what you see into useful information.

Bring spore prints and fungal specimens to observe under the microscope.

Family friendly. Kids under 12 are free and must be accompanied by an adult. Recycled Mushroom grow blocks for everyone that attends.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Alan Rockefeller is an Oakland based mycologist who spends half of his time in the field and half in the lab. In 2001 he began studying mushrooms, and is self taught. Each year since 2007 he has traveled to Mexico to collect mushrooms - he has now photographed more than 1,000 species of fungi from Mexico. Alan enjoys mushroom photography, DNA barcoding and microscopy. Alan regularly identifies mushrooms for several fungus fairs in Mexico and the USA in addition to identifying on websites including iNaturalist, Mushroom Observer and various Facebook groups.

William Padilla-Brown, better known as @mycosymbiote or Permaculture Papi is the founder of Mycosymbiotics, a social entrepreneur, citizen scientist, urban-shaman, contributing editor for Fungi Magazine and author of the Cordyceps Cultivation Handbook.