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Fungi Town
Fungi Town
13 MAY 2020 · Welcome back, citizen!
Now in its third year, the Fungus Olympics has become a popular event. In episode 15 and episode 18 of Fungi Town, I spoke with some of the contestants of the very first competition. In Part 3, I catch up with two of my guests to talk about the ups and downs of being Fungus Olympians. Dr. Derreck Carter-House from the Stajich lab spoke with me from California and Dr. Ilkka Kronholm joined me from Finland!
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Official Fungus Olympics Website
Great article from the University of Adelaide about their participation (pics and video)
The Stajich Lab
Rhizopus stolonifer
Phycomyces sensory perception
University of Jyväskylä (apologies for mangling the pronunciation!)
Neurospora crassa
If you’re like me and want to see videos of fungi navigating the Olympic mazes, check out @FungusOlympics on Twitter!
Thank you to my guests, Dr. Carter-House and Dr. Kronholm for agreeing to chat with me again. Thanks to Fungi Town’s newest patron, Alyson! If you’d like to support the show, please check out the great rewards here. A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the YouTube channel for fungi videos!
4 MAR 2020 · Welcome back, citizen!
In this episode of Fungi Town, I chat with author, illustrator, and documentary filmmaker Roo Vandegrift from the University of Oregon about his work with Xylaria fungi in the Ecuadorian cloud forests.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Endophytes
Xylariaphilia - Dr. Vandegrift's site
Richer than Gold paper
Marrow of the Mountain Kickstarter
Van Bael Lab at Tulane University
David Grimaldi - American Museum of Natural History
Thank you to Dr. Roo Vanegrift for his time and to Sarah Prentice for suggesting this episode’s guest. You can access a transcript of this episode coming soon.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 10% discount on your order. A percentage of sales goes to support the show!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. Romantic background music is: Magic Eye (Ants Smoove Groove Mix) by Ant (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/YSE/16379 Ft: Frank Carter III
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email: fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the YouTube channel for fungi videos!
3 FEB 2020 · Welcome back, citizen!
What sounds make you think of summer? For me, the sound of cicadas is a big one. These are fascinating insects on their own, but my guest, Dr. Matt Kasson from the University of West Virginia, has discovered something even more fascinating about the fungi that infect them.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Dr. Matt Kasson’s paper in Fungal Ecology
Protea Bioscience
What is Khat? (LiveScience.com)
Thank you to Dr. Matt Kasson for his time and past guest Kristin Wickert for suggesting our topic. Also, thanks go to Fungi Town's patrons for their support! You can access a transcript of this episode soon, on the transcript page.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 20% discount on your order. A percentage of sales goes to support the show!
You can also get 20% off of Zen Hen chicken treats by entering coupon code "Fungi Town."
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. Sound effects: ice cream truck by ciccarelli, skateboard by situational, and ocean waves by Eelke were all found on Freesound.com. The cicada sounds are via Wikipedia Commons.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the YouTube channel for fungi videos! Don't forget to become a patron and support the show!
6 DEC 2019 · Welcome back, citizen!
In this episode, we peek over the fence, looking for fowl play. It's all about backyard chickens! The makers of Zen Hen join me to talk about their chicken treats and share how they're using fungi to improve the health of hens. My guests are two enterprising entrepreneurs, Craig Rouskey and Doug Manofsky, founders of Pando Nutrition. They'll talk about biotech, how to spot a healthy chicken, and the innovative ways they're utilizing fungi. You'll even hear a special discount code, just for Fungi Town citizens.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Pando Nutrition
Zen Hen
Real Vegan Cheese
Backyard Chickens.com
How Soy Sauce Is Made [National Geographic]
The Strange Allure of Pioneer Living [The Atlantic]
Thank you to my guests Craig Rouskey and Doug Manofsky from Pando Nutrition. A transcript of this episode will be available soon.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 10% discount on your order. A percentage of sales goes to support the show!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. The theme music is by the awesome Athens, Georgia band Shehehe.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the YouTube channel for fungi videos!
15 APR 2019 · Welcome back, citizen!
You've seen fungi, you've likely eaten fungi, but have you heard fungi? In this episode, you'll get to do just that and learn how two artists have discovered how to collaborate with our nonhuman friends. Trust me, it's mind-blowing. My guests this time are: Tosca Teran and Andrei Gravelle of Nanotopia.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Aquarian Hydrophone
Energy Bending Lab
Humus Sapiens
MIDI Sprout
Monophonic Moss Piglet
Tosca Teran was recently awarded a bio art residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto which runs through the summer. If you're in Toronto, you can check out Nanopod's workshops.
Thank you to Tosca Teran and Andrei Gravelle for sharing their incredible music with us and to patron William Denton for suggesting this episode. You can access a transcript of this episode coming soon.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 10% discount on your order.
If you're enjoying the show so far, please consider becoming a patron. Just click the green "become a Patron" button on your screen (upper right corner) or go here.
$1 level gets you access to bonus mini episodes + a Fungi Town vinyl sticker
$5 level gets you all of the above + a "Follow Me to Fungi Town" bumper sticker
$10 level gets you all of the above + your choice of any of three beautiful mushroom prints by Athens artist Maggie Baxter.
If you've already become a patron and want to bump up a level for the new rewards, it's easy!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram: @fungitownpodor email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the new YouTube channel! Once the channel hits 100 subscribers, I'll be doing a fantastic fungi giveaway!
5 DEC 2018 · Welcome back, citizen!
What's got people so excited about the Great Lakes? A great discovery in the lakes is getting a lot of attention lately. So, I spoke to the researchers who plumbed the depths of the Great Lakes and brought up something surprising. My guests this time are Dr. Andrew Miller from the University of Illinois and Dr. Robert Cichewicz from the University of Oklahoma.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Science Direct article - “What Lies Beneath? Fungal diversity at the Bottom of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior”
Illinois Prairie Research Institute article - "Scientists find new fungi at the bottom of the Great Lakes"
Michigan Radio article - "Could a fungus from the bottom of a the Great Lakes hold a cure for cancer?"
What's In Your Backyard? citizen science project
Thank you to Dr. Miller and Dr. Cichewicz for sharing their remarkable discoveries with me, to Rowen Cannon for providing transcription, and to Leslie Masson of the Mushroom and Lichen Dyers United group. You can access a transcript of this episode here.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 10% discount on your order.
Are you a musician? Would you like to have your version of Fungi Town (like Funky Town) featured on the show? Send your mp3 to fungitownpod [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you're enjoying the show so far, please consider becoming a patron. Just click the green "become a Patron" button on your screen (upper right corner) or go here.
$1 level gets you access to bonus mini episodes + a Fungi Town vinyl sticker
$5 level gets you all of the above + a "Follow Me to Fungi Town" bumper sticker
$10 level gets you all of the above + your choice of any of three beautiful mushroom prints by Athens artist Maggie Baxter.
If you've already become a patron and want to bump up a level for the new rewards, it's easy!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. Defunked theme music is Fminor_Funk_BassGroove_100bpm by GRD-music used via Creative Commons license through Freesound. Background music is Flammulina velutipes by Keiss.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the new YouTube channel! Once the channel hits 100 subscribers, I'll be doing a fantastic fungi giveaway!
19 NOV 2018 · Welcome back, citizen!
Can fungi do acrobatics? sprints? backstrokes? Find out in this first episode of Fungi Town's four-part series on the Fungus Olympics! I'll talk to one of the organizers of the competition and several of the competitors to find out how the event got started and learn about the people behind the competition.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
The Fungus Olympics official site
Slime Moulds playlist
Wikipedia's entry on Microfluidics
Neutrophil definition from National Cancer Institute
Video of the hat-thrower fungus.
Thank you to Dr. Daniel Irimia from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Derreck Carter-House, Jesus Pena, and Dr. Jason Stajich from the University of California at Riverside, Dr. Ilkka Kronholm from the University of Jyväskylä, and to Rowen Cannon for providing the transcript for this episode, which you can find here or in the transcripts tab.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter promo code "FUNGITOWN" to get a 10% discount on your order.
Are you a musician? Would you like to have your version of Fungi Town (like Funky Town) featured on the show? Send your mp3 to fungitownpod [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you're enjoying the show so far, please consider becoming a patron. Just click the green "become a Patron" button on your screen (upper right corner) or go here.
$1 level gets you access to bonus mini episodes + a Fungi Town vinyl sticker
$5 level gets you all of the above + a "Follow Me to Fungi Town" bumper sticker
$10 level gets you all of the above + your choice of any of three beautiful mushroom prints by Athens artist Maggie Baxter.
If you've already become a patron and want to bump up a level for the new rewards, it's easy!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. The fanfare sound is by bone666138, used via Creative Commons license through Freesound. Background music is Clavaria zolllingeri by Potential DiffereSE
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the new YouTube channel! Once the channel hits 100 subscribers, I'll be doing a fantastic fungi giveaway!
17 SEP 2018 · Welcome back, citizen!
What do gangrene, witches, and LSD have in common? Find out when I talk to Dr. Anthony Glenn from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service about the plant pathogen known as ergot of rye.
If you want to learn more about this episode's topics, here are some links:
Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
Ergot (American Phytopathological Society)
Grass (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Thank you to Dr. Anthony Glenn from The USDA for sharing his expertise on the show and to Rowen Cannon for providing the transcript for this episode, which you can find here.
Please check out my sponsor, Lichen Landscapes, for unique cards and prints and don't forget to enter "FUNGITOWN" in the order notes.
Are you a musician? Would you like to have your version of Fungi Town (like Funky Town) featured on the show? Send your mp3 to fungitownpod [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you're enjoying the show so far, please consider becoming a patron. Just click the green "become a Patron" button on your screen (upper right corner) or go here. For $1 a month, you get access to exclusive mini episodes of the show, for a $5 montly contribution, you get one of my new Fungi Town bumper stickers, and now there's a $10 option that gives you a choice of any of three beautiful mushroom prints by Athens artist Maggie Baxter. If you've already become a patron and want to bump up a level for the new rewards, it's easy!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. Defunked theme music is Fminor_Funk_BassGroove_100bpm by GRD-music, lawn mower by ainayave, baseball hit by AmishRob, and grasswalk by smaigin; all used via Creative Commons license through Freesound.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the new YouTube channel! Once the channel hits 100 subscribers, I'll be doing a fantastic fungi giveaway!
19 AUG 2018 · Welcome back, citizen!
This episode is the long-awaited smut episode! But, no need to usher the kids out of the room, because I'm talking - of course - about a type of fungi. My guest, Dr. Marin Brewer of the University of Georgia's Plant Pathology department, will talk about the biology of Ustilago maydis. I'll also speak to Daniel Brooks from Licha's Cantina about cooking with huitlacoche, a.k.a. "corn smut".
Here are some articles about this episode's fungus:
Food Republic
Aqui es Texcoco restaurant
PBS video
NPR article
Are you a musician? Would you like to have your version of Fungi Town (like Funky Town) featured on the show? Send your mp3 to fungitownpod [at] gmail [dot] com.
Very special thanks goes to Leah Churner, host of the Hothouse podcast, for helping me connect with Licha's Cantina. If you're interested in permaculture or just like to garden, check out her show on her website or wherever you get your podcasts.
If you're enjoying the show so far, please consider becoming a patron. Just click the green "become a Patron" button on your screen (upper right corner) or go here. For $1 a month, you get access to exclusive mini episodes of the show, for a $5 montly contribution, you get a snazzy Fungi Town logo vinyl sticker PLUS access to the mini episodes, and now there's a $10 option that gives you a choice of any of three beautiful mushroom prints by Athens artist Maggie Baxter. If you've already become a patron and want to bump up a level for the new rewards, it's easy!
Fungi Town is written, directed and produced by Jen Parrilli and hosted on Podbean. Theme music is by the awesome Athens, GA band Shehehe. Defunked theme music is Fminor_Funk_BassGroove_100bpm by GRD-music, record scratch by luffy, and smutty music by leehayeskerr, all used via Creative Commons license through Freesound. Photo was taken by Jen Parrilli.
You can find Fungi Town on Facebook. Twitter, and Instagram: @fungitownpod or email at fungitownpod[at]gmail[dot]com. Check out the new YouTube channel! Once the channel hits 100 subscribers, I'll be doing a fantastic fungi giveaway!
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