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Meeting Details

Mitchell Hall – Doors open at 7:00 p.m. (Fungi ID, Volunteer Sign-Up, Meet & Greet, Book Table, etc.)
Bring mushrooms for identification at 7:00
7:30 p.m. – Meeting Begins

Important Information about 2018 Meetings

*Due to the Denver Botanic Garden’s 2018 concert schedule, CMS meetings will NOT be held every second Monday of each month nor can we guarantee meetings will be held at the DBG. Several dates are not yet confirmed.

TBD

Please check back later, we will be updating meeting details as schedules start to formulate. Also keep an eye our for event details in our monthly newsletters.

Speaker |  Dr. Becky Buckley

I have been teaching at Metropolitan State University since 2008. Courses that I teach include Bio 1090 (Bio I lab), Bio 2400 (Gen. Microbiology and lab), Bio 4440 (Virology) and Bio490N (Mycology). I received my B.S. in Medical Technology from the University of Utah

and am a board-certified medical technologist (M.T. A.S.C.P.). I received my Ph.D. in Cellular, Viral and Molecular Biology from the University of Utah College of Medicine, then completed 3 years of post-doctoral research training at the University of California at Davis. Over the course of my career I have taught for the Centers for Disease Control (2 years), Baylor College of Medicine Division of Molecular Virology with a joint appointment in the Cell and Molecular Biology Dept. (7 years), University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and School of Dentistry (12 years), and Regis University Department of Biology (12 years). My research

interests began in Medical Microbiology and later focused on Molecular Virology. With my background in Clinical Microbiology, which included Medical Mycology identification, I taught all the Medical Mycology courses at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

After joining the faculty at Metropolitan State University, I realized several years ago, there was no Mycology course at Metropolitan State, so I decided to develop a course in General Mycology. In addition to several lectures on Medical Mycology the course covers fungal taxonomy and structure, the roles fungi play in the ecology of the planet, their interactions with plants, animals and

other fungi, their use as biological controls, the metabolites, enzymes, toxins and hallucinogens that they produce, and the culinary uses of fungi (with one day set aside for tasting fungal foods!) I absolutely enjoyed developing the course and it has become quite a popular Summer Semester course. Thanks to the support of Vera Evenson and Andy Wilson at the Herbarium, I have been able to include a field trip each year to see the phenomenal collection of fungi available there. Thanks to the support of Ed Lubow, I also have been able to include a field trip foray where the

students can study the fungi in the field with someone who is expert in identification and collect specimens for the class.

Meeting Details

Mitchell Hall – Doors open at 7:00 p.m. (Fungi ID, Volunteer Sign-Up, Meet & Greet, Book Table, etc.)
Bring mushrooms for identification at 7:00
7:30 p.m. – Meeting Begins

Important Information about 2018 Meetings

Due to the Denver Botanic Garden’s 2018 concert schedule, CMS meetings will NOT be held every second Monday of each month, and several dates are not yet confirmed.

1st Foray TBD

Please check back later, we will be updating foray events as schedules start to formulate. Also keep an eye our for foray events in our monthly newsletters!

Foray Details

Each foray is different. Please check back later for specific details on this 1st foray outing.

30 People Limited Space
Due to the large volume of people interested in our forays, you must register for this outing by registering here.

Foray Location

TBD. Please check back later for specific location details.

Registration

You must now register for forays online!

Register Here

TBD

Please check back later, we will be updating meeting details as schedules start to formulate. Also keep an eye our for event details in our monthly newsletters.

Meeting Details

Mitchell Hall – Doors open at 7:00 p.m. (Fungi ID, Volunteer Sign-Up, Meet & Greet, Book Table, etc.)
Bring mushrooms for identification at 7:00
7:30 p.m. – Meeting Begins

Important Information about 2018 Meetings

Due to the Denver Botanic Garden’s 2018 concert schedule, CMS meetings will NOT be held every second Monday of each month, and several dates are not yet confirmed.