Andi Bruce

We're making progress!After our fungi colonized the 2-liter flasks for almost 3 weeks, I added sterilized wood blocks to become colonized as our inocula for the experiment to come.Here is a 3-week-...

No tears here for coming in 2nd!  Out of the eight mycology projects participating in the Fungi Challenge, we came in 2nd for the most backers on November 2, awarding my project an additional $200!...

Over the weekend I finished cutting wood blocks to use as inocula, i.e. to introduce our fungi to the diesel- contaminated soil. We'll run the experiment with 5 replicates each of pi...

Sometimes, you have to take risks.  Sometimes, those risks pay off.  Sometimes, they don't.  Oh boy.We obtained two strains each of our two study species.  All were growing on petri dishes, except ...

Hi everyone!  Just a brief note to let you know I will be doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" today at 2:00 pm Central Time.  This is a great opportunity to ask questions about my project, fungi in ge...

Exciting news!  Our cultures of Fibroporia vaillantii and Stropharia rugosoannulata are finally in!  I think that makes this project's commencement official. Time to ramp up!  Trans...