Let's get together VIRTUALLY! Mark your calendars and get ready to enjoy our August meeting from the comfort of your home! 

• Our President, Tom McCoy, will start us up with meeting business 
• Membership Chair, Tom Moore, will update us with "Fungi In the News"
• Former Programs Chair, Annie Weissman, will give us an overview of what is popping up with our virtual ID table, using YOUR observations on the iNaturalist Project
• Culinary Chair, Cindy Connelly Ryan, will delight us with her segment: "From The ID Table to The Kitchen Table"
• Megan Romberg, Science Advisor, will announce the Sequanota scholarship recipients
• Featured presentation by Dr. Conrad Schoch

Title: Demystifying DNA Sequences: A guide to the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI) system

Description: You've got your mushrooms, dried them, and sent them for DNA analysis, now what? In this presentation Dr. Conrad Schoch will give us an overview of the world's biggest sequence database (GenBank) and other resources available for researchers everywhere trying to answer one of the oldest questions in the world: "what am I looking at?" 

Bio: Conrad Schoch is a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA since 2009. He acts as Team Lead for the NCBI Taxonomy Group and is also responsible for the curation of fungal names in GenBank and associated databases. He obtained his MSc. (Microbiology) at the University of the Free State in 1996, after which he completed his PhD in Plant Pathology in 1999 at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He was a postdoctoral scientist at Cornell University from 2000 to 2003 and at Oregon State University from 2003 to 2008 where he was responsible for sampling non-lichenised ascomycetes on the first Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL) project. He is also past Chair for the International Committee for Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF).

Zoom Link:

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Meeting ID 966 9369 0911

Passcode  330827

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