Ep. 165: Hongos in Patagonia - Pedomorphosis & Rethinking Evolution (feat. Dr. Francisco Kuhar)

Today on Mushroom Hour we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Francisco Kuhar. Dr. Kuhar is a Mycologist specialized in the fungal diversity of gasteroid and ectomycorrhizal fungi and biotechnological applications of fungal enzymes. He has a special interest in the evolutionary biology of sequestrate forms of fungi. Dr. Kuhar is an Associate researcher at CONICET in the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal (IMBIV - UNC), curator of Fungi at the CORD Herbarium and one of the leaders of Inommy Labs helping to pioneer a new fungi-based product platform.   

TOPICS:    

• Freud, Linguistics and Life Sciences   
• Hongos in Patagonia   
• See the Future in a Spore   
• Hypogeous & Sequestrate Fungi   
• Pedomorphosis    
• Mutations Happening too Fast in the Evolutionary Record   
• Are We Too Obsessed with Adaptation in Evolutionary Biology?   
• The Story of Rhizopogon and Suillis     
• Alan Turing Equations Predicting Biological Forms   
• Approaching Scientific Questions with an Open Mind   
• Burning Questions on Underground Fungi   
• Matching Genetics to Traits in Fungi   
• Inommy Labs   
• Fungal Bioprospecting    

LINKS:   

• Francisco Kuhar IG: https://www.instagram.com/franfungi   
• Innomy Labs: http://innomylabs.com/index.html   
• Hongos De Argentina: https://hongos.ar/   
• "Ontogeny and Phylogeny": https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674639416   
• Turing pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern   
• Geastrum genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum