Please join the Boston Mycological Club and the Friends of the Farlow for “Rotten Trees” a talk by Dr. Lynne Boddy, a fungal ecologist at Cardiff University, Wales. 

Sunday November 8, 2020 at 2:00 pm EDT 

Register for this talk on Zoom in advance!

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vcu2opjMjEtyUXQ6hFL1Tvbzn_DJ6sgmG 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About Dr. Boddy

Lynne Boddy is Professor in the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University, Wales. A fungal ecologist, Dr. Boddy’s research centers on the ecology of wood decomposition, including wood decomposition processes, synecology and autecology. She pioneered the study of fungal community structure and dynamics in wood and has related community structure and development to decomposition rate. A deeper understanding of interactions and their effects has come from studying gene expression during interspecific interactions in near natural conditions. She and her research group have studied the production of volatile and diffusible organic compounds during mycelial interactions. Her investigation of the network architecture of mycelia growing in soil reveals the foraging ecology and key roles of cord-forming basidiomycetes in nutrient translocation and wood decay in forest ecosystems. Dr. Boddy is a leading authority on basidiomycete ecology and has published over 250 papers as well as books on the ecology of wood decomposition.