Friends of the Farlow Annual Lecture, Saturday November 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm

We are offering a hybrid annual lecture on Saturday November 5, 2022, at 4:00pm at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138. The lecture"Adventures with Psilocybin-Producing Mushrooms: New Insights on Their Evolution and Diversity.”  will be given by Bryn Dentinger from the University of Utah.

Free event parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street parking garage .Please mention "Friends of the Farlow" as you go in.

Please register here to attend remotely. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting via Zoom. We invite you to join us in person as well at the Harvard University Herbaria in Room 125 (22 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138). Before, beginning at 3PM. and after the lecture we will offer tours of the Farlow collections. Watch for further notices.

Dr. Dentinger is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah, and curator of mycology at the Natural History Museum of Utah. He received his PhD in plant biology at the University of Minnesota in 2007. After two postdocs, one at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, and one at the University of Oregon, he was a senior researcher from 2010-2016, and later head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, UK. Dentinger’s research combines fieldwork and genomic tools to understand the global diversity, distribution, and evolutionary history of fungi.