Matt Kasson, PhD 🍄🧫
@ImperfectFunGuy
Mycologist & Forest Pathologist | WVU | Nat Geo & SPUN Explorer | SciComm | Boy dad | husband | ADHD |🏃| he/his | Host of @plantdisease’s Plantopia podcast
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It’s exciting when a mushroom you sample in the forest gives off the same vibe in the lab! This is the orange-mat Coprinellus (Coprinellus radians) in the field versus in the petri plate. Field photo by John Plischke.
And just like that my teaching has concluded for the semester. Students in my Forest Pathology / Entomology course took their final exam this morning. Good luck to all the instructors, TAs, and students as we work though our final weeks of instruction here at WVU Mountaineers and
My Monday evening was anything but typical. I attended Ed Yong’s (Ed Yong is not here) Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures hosted talk on his best selling book An Immense World. I was invited to meet Ed after his talk to say hello and discuss, among other things, zombie cicadas!
Ed is a true champion for
I had a great time interviewing Dr. Romina Gazis (Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab) for Episode 4 of The American Phytopathological Society’s Plantopia podcast. It’s a modern day snapshot of extension plant pathology, running a plant disease diagnostic lab, and tropical agriculture! encourage you all to give it a listen and
In our latest episode, Dr. Romina Gazis Tropical Plant Clinic & Research Lab of
FLORIDA discusses her passion for #mycology , #tropicalfruit diseases, and her Peruvian roots with host Matt Kasson, PhD 🍄🧫.
Listen here: plantopiapodcast.org/48
#PlantPathology #ScienceTalks 🍄
Great to see my colleague and friend @[email protected] getting some press for an incredible eLife - the journal paper! So happy to have been a part of it!
Tomorrow—Myriapod Meet Up 2024: 30 April, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This free online event will include short talks and discussion about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). #MillipedeMonday