[Lapg] Reminder: Tonight! Join the Los Angeles Mycological Society

[David Kahn]

Upcoming events in Los Angles. Please Post!


1. Upcoming Foray:

*January 19, 2008 (Saturday) Foray 
<http://www.lamushrooms.org/bigwoods-2008-01-19.html> to the El Cariso 
"Big Woods" in the Cleveland National Forest*


2. LAMS January meeting will be held on Monday, January 21st. Special 
guest speaker: *Dr. Elio Schaechter 
<http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/faculty/schaechter.htm>.
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Elio Schaechter Professor Emeritus, Molecular Biology; Microbiology 
Tufts University School of Medicine Author, "In the Company of 
Mushrooms" (Harvard University Press) San Diego, California George 
Hudler Author, "Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds" (Princeton 
University Press) Professor, Plant Pathology Cornell University Ithaca, 
New York
Elio Schaechter retired from the Chairmanship of the Molecular Biology 
Department in 1993, after 23 years on the job. He is past  Presidents of 
the American Society for Microbiology. He was the editor of the Bulletin 
of the Boston Mycological Club for 20 years. He remains active 
lecturing, writing, consulting attending lab meetings and through his 
knowledge packed blog: Small Things Considered 
<http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/>, appreciating microbial 
activities, the unusual and unexpected!

Topic: *How Mushrooms Spread Their Spores. Or, After The Rains, It Spores.*
Place: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County- Times-Mirror Room
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Use Staff Entrance and Staff Parking
Refreshments Served. Bring your recent mushroom find to be ID'd it could 
be edible, medicinal or poisonous!
For directions & more info please go to: www.lamushrooms.org 




3. 2008 LAMS Annual Fair: <http://www.lamushrooms.org/fair-2008.html>

24th Annual Wild Mushroom Fair, Celebrating the Beauty of Wild Mushrooms
Sunday, February 10th, 2008. 10AM-4PM
Guest Speaker: Dr. Chester Leathers 
<http://www.dominionenv.net/KP_Chester%20Leathers.htm>
Topic: "Mold, Mortgages and Mayhem"
Place: Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden 
<http://www.arboretum.org/>
301 N. Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA 91007

Regards,

David Kahn
V.P. /  Program Chair
Los Angeles Mycological Society
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