The rain is doing wonders for mushrooms in Toowoomba 🍄

Ramaria sp.

A lovely display of pink Agaricus in University of Southern Queensland own Australian Native Woodland Reserve (ANWaR) 🍄

Fun with #Fungi ! 🍄 Meet PhD candidate Brooke, born and raised in Toowoomba, and now doing a PhD at University of Southern Queensland. She is investigating the biodiversity of fungal endophytes in unstudied Australian habitats and determining their potential uses as bioactive agents

#AcademicChatter

Marasmius brunneolorobustus at Mt Nebo today 🍄

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A bit chuffed with this. Very grateful ☺️🍄

Thanks CSIRO Publishing !!!!!

Wrapping up holidays with yet another trip to Ravensbourne 🍄 #fungifriday

#mushroommonday
Hygrocybe sp. at Ravensbourne

What do we do after a #biosystematics conference…? Go on a 🍄 foray of course!
Mycena viscidocrudenta at Ravensbourne

PS: these tiny things are really hard to get in focus! 📷

Mycology in force at the Biosystematics 2023 conference!
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Fun-gals unite 🍄

Day 1 of #Biosystematics2023 !!

Very cool to visit the Alma Mater of 2/3 of my supervisors… @ANU

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Campanella sp. at Ravensbourne today 🍄 John Dearnaley

A few nice finds at Stanthorpe today 🍄🪴

Congratulations to our superstar #PhD student Brooke Raphael for being awarded a #ASBS travel bursary to attend the annual ASBS/ABRS conference 👏⭐️🧬🍄 John Dearnaley #unisqproud Ecology & Environmental Science at UniSQ Biomed & Med Lab Sciences at UniSQ UniSQHealth&MedicalSciences

Thanks to staff, students and families who helped out at the UniSQ native reserve planting day today. Will be great to watch the understorey grow!

Research finds likely culprit for brain fog commonly reported by breast cancer patients abc.net.au/news/2023-07-0… via ABC Australia

Testing the photography skills with Chlorociboria sp.. The cups of this fungus are only ~ 3-8mm wide!! 🍄

Bringing you your Mushroom Monday post. Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost fungus) and Geastrum sp. (Earth star) at Ravensbourne NP last week 🍄

Leanne Dooley presenting about her research in school’s monthly research symposium. Her research focus is vaccine development for rheumatic heart disease. She is using a recombinant DNA technology to express an epitope of the bacterium S. pyogenes on HepB virus like particle.

Fallen branches from February storms in our garden have sprouted some Gloeophyllum sp. brackets after the recent rain 🍄