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