Mycology 101 Thursdays
About this event
This online course covers the fundamental aspects of mycology and fungal ecology. Classes will be live and recorded for people to re-watch later.
- Fundamentals of biology including cell structure and introduction to genetics and evolution
- Fungal diversity and different types of fungi
- How to identify fungi
- How fungi interact with other organisms and roles of fungi in the ecosystem
- Biosecurity including field hygiene and managing invasive species
The course will run for 8 weeks and each class is 1.5 hours
We are running this as a separate course as we are approaching the end of the year. However anyone who signs up for this course is entitled to discount prices on other courses in the series (which we will run next year) including:
- Human uses for fungi and growing fungi
- Fungal conservation, land management and citizen science
The classes will be on Thursday evenings from 6pm-7:30pm