Long overdue labnote...

Oct 06, 2019

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Long overdue labnote...We're still here. Despite the long silence. If you're wondering what's been happening you can check out the recent blog on the Colorado Mycoflora Project website.
We've been making progress with the DNA barcoding of Rocky Mountain macrofungi. This summer we've had the fortune of hiring Justin Loucks as a summer intern. He's been working hard processing collections for the herbarium, organizing and cataloging DNA in our freezer, generating sequence data, and organizing this data in spreadsheets.
 
I've also been working with Dr. Jessie Berta-Thompson on organizing diversity data from the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi. Next we want to link this to the genetic data we've been generating to better understand how much new information our Project is contributing to understaning fungal diversity. This will likely lead to a new publiction in the next year.
Please stay tuned for more on this and other progress on DNA barcoding for the project.

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Cindy Wu

Exciting to hear from you guys! Thanks for letting us visit you in Denver earlier this year. 🙂

Oct 06, 20191

Andrew WilsonResearcher

Absolutely. Glad to have you visit and see our little operation. It's changed wildly since then. The lab we were in no longer exists, and currently we're doing all our labwork in the herbarium. But this will all change come March when we're in our new Center for Science Art and Education.

Oct 16, 20190

About This Project

Colorado Mycoflora Project

Denver Botanic Gardens

This project will aim to address the fundamental question, "How many
species of macrofungi exist in the Southern Rocky Mountain region?" Plants have floras. What do fungi have? Not much. At least not in North America. The Colorado Mycoflora Project is a regional contribution towards assembling a North American Mycoflora, which will document the diversity of macrofungi (mushrooms, puffballs and other fleshy fungi) on the continent.