Name: Rocky Mountain Community Mycology: Mapping Fungi with DNA Together
Start: 2025-06-10T14:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-10T15:30:00-0600

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 44th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! A plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations, to lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the Parade!) there is plenty for everyone each and every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family. See you soon!

Tuesday June 10, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT

Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room @ 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA

Rapid advances in technology have made large-scale DNA sequencing possible for the first time ever in history. Community mycologists gathering in home laboratories are managing to sequence thousands of fungi in a single weekend. In 2023 alone, because of the diligence of collectors alongside the affordability and relative ease of sequencing, iNaturalist observations with ITS sequence data jumped 100-fold. In this talk, Mandie Quark will tour the audience through the community science labs, collaborations and workflows that are allowing this data to be produced at record speed, all free of charge to Colorado mushroom collectors. Cutting-edge methods, multidisciplinary research, and interesting species in the region will be highlighted. Within this creative presentation, Mandie intends to uncloak the mystery surrounding fungal DNA sequencing, and demonstrate its impact on biodiversity tracking far into the future.

Speakers

Mandie Quark (she/her)

Molecular mycologist and science writer by training, Mandie Quark is a genomic researcher with a passion for the advancement of community mycology. Her specialty is creative communication around fungal DNA sequencing, and she specializes in explaining the complexities of science to... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Wilkinson Public Library- Program Room

FREE - Open to public, General Mycology

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45th Telluride Mushroom Festival

Mandie Quark (she/her)

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