Ep. 165: Hongos in Patagonia - Pedomorphosis & Rethinking Evolution (feat. Dr. Francisco Kuhar)
Today on Mushroom Hour we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Francisco Kuhar. Dr. Kuhar is a Mycologist specialized in the fungal diversity of gasteroid and ectomycorrhizal fungi and biotechnological applications of fungal enzymes. He has a special interest in the evolutionary biology of sequestrate forms of fungi. Dr. Kuhar is an Associate researcher at CONICET in the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal (IMBIV - UNC), curator of Fungi at the CORD Herbarium and one of the leaders of Inommy Labs helping to pioneer a new fungi-based product platform.
TOPICS:
- Freud, Linguistics and Life Sciences
- Hongos in Patagonia
- See the Future in a Spore
- Hypogeous & Sequestrate Fungi
- Pedomorphosis
- Mutations Happening too Fast in the Evolutionary Record
- Are We Too Obsessed with Adaptation in Evolutionary Biology?
- The Story of Rhizopogon and Suillis
- Alan Turing Equations Predicting Biological Forms
- Approaching Scientific Questions with an Open Mind
- Burning Questions on Underground Fungi
- Matching Genetics to Traits in Fungi
- Inommy Labs
- Fungal Bioprospecting
LINKS:
- Francisco Kuhar IG: https://www.instagram.com/franfungi
- Innomy Labs: http://innomylabs.com/index.html
- Hongos De Argentina: https://hongos.ar/
- "Ontogeny and Phylogeny": https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674639416
- Turing pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern
- Geastrum genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum