Fungus Wars
- Calendar
- Lecture
- Date
- Wednesday, 13 Sep 2017 7:30 pm
- Speaker
- Prof Lynne Boddy
- Decomposition Ecologist, Cardiff University
Description
Fungi are crucial to the well-being of our planet. With around 5 million species, they are rarely found growing alone in nature but usually in communities of several or many other fungi, and also bacteria. They are all competing for limited resources, and do so by fighting each other!
I will show how they ‘attack’ and ‘defend’ their territory by deploying an arsenal of chemicals at distance, and using these chemicals and other aggressive mechanisms following contact. I will also explain why we cannot live without fungi.
Location
Royal Agricultural University - Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre
- Street
- Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre, RAU
- City
- GL7 6JS Cirencester
- County
- Gloucestershire
Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is situated close to the junction of the A419 (Cirencester to Stroud road) and the A433 (Cirencester to Bath road) on the south-west edge of Cirencester.
The entrance to the Stroud Road car park is off the A419. (Satellite View, RAU page and RAU campus map)
The Parkinson Lecture Theatre (19 on the map) can be found by entering from the Stroud Road car park, and following the path on the right-hand side of the Garner Lecture Block, the first entrance on the right leads to the Parkinson Lecture Theatre.
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