HARTE SINGER + ALAN ROCKEFELLER MICROSCOPY + DNA SEQUENCING| SAT 12/9| 8 PM| ABALONE ROOM
ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Organismal DNA sequence analysis was once a tool used only in cutting edge academic and industrial labs but nowadays "citizen scientists" are becoming a part of the Molecular Age. For many years Rockefeller has been teaching courses in his underground lab in the Bay Area. This year, Alan Rockefeller brings his Counter Culture lab course to the Inaugural Forage Mendocino Mushroom Symposium at Little River Inn and will be assisted by his friend and colleague Harte Singer. This course in DNA sequence analysis will be a pretty intensive, immersive, and hands-on experience in how DNA sequence analysis is performed on organisms (using fungi, of course) with everything you need to know, start to finish, as well as explanations of materials and equipment involved. What it does and where you can source equipment and consumables.
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS
Alan Rockefeller is a mycologist, public speaker, biohacker and photographer who lives in Oakland, California.
In 2001, he began his studies in the field of mycology, beginning with the fungi of California. Since then, he has traveled to various countries to collect and study mushrooms and has photographed more than 1,000 species of fungi from Mexico and 1,000 species from California. Through phylogenetic and microscopic analysis, he has identified several species not described in the scientific literature.
Alan regularly identifies mushrooms for several fungus fairs in Mexico and the USA in addition to identifying fungi on websites such as Mushroom Observer, iNaturalist and Facebook.
His work has been recognized by The Washington Post, Ars Technica, Smithsonian, San Francisco Chronicle, VICE, Dallas Observer, Arizona Daily Sun, Chicago Reporter, Smoky Mountain News, Benzinga, Ancient Origins, The Union of Grass Valley, Interesting Engineering, KCRG, Filter, Yahoo Finance, Marijuana Movement, East Bay Express, Boulder Weekly, Scientific American, The Verge, Mother Nature Network, Discover Magazine, Social News Daily, International Business Times, Newsweek, iNews, CBC Radio, and TreeHugger.
Instagram: @alan_rockefeller
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HARTE SINGER
IG: @mycosomatic
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Harte Singer is a student at Cal State East Bay studying cell and molecular biology. He sits on the board of Bay Area Applied Mycology and has taught mycology workshops at Counter Culture Labs, a community science space in Oakland California. He is currently working with fungi to remediate Eucalyptus stumps with East Bay Municipal Utility District, as well as sequencing the whole genome of Omphalotus olivascens. His passion for mycology started during his 15-year career as a chef. Learning to forage edible mushrooms eventually led to an insatiable curiosity about all the ones that didn’t make it into the foraging basket. He began attending workshops at Counter Culture Labs where he learned how to do PCR, tissue culture, and microscopy of fungi from a cadre of renowned community scientists. He strives to inspire and teach other budding mycologists while he is learning from both academia and the community at large.