The agenda is being updated and is subject to change.
Day 1 – May 12
09:30 am – Welcome
10:00 am – Featured Speaker: Elise Elsacker – “Towards Living and Self-Healing Fungal Materials”
11:00 am – Panel: “Sustainable Built Environment”
Panelists: Elise Elsacker, Esther Obonyo, Juan Pablo Gevaudan
Panel Chair: Benay Gürsoy
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
01:00 pm – Featured Speaker: Thomas Speck – “Plants and Fungi as Models and Building Materials for Bioinspired Architecture and Soft Machines”
02:00 pm – Panel: “Structure, Performance, Processing in Fungal Biofabrication”
Panelists: Thomas Speck, Felecia Davis, Josephine Wee
Panel Chair: Zoubeida Ounaies
03:00 pm – Coffee Break
03:15 pm – Featured Speaker: James Lendemer – “Lichens: Keystone Fungal Symbionts and the Paradox of Anthropocene Resiliency”
04:15 pm – Panel: “Fungi in Combination with Other Organisms for Multifunctional Material Systems”
Panelists: James Lendemer, Sharifa Crandall, John Pecchia
Panel Chair: Jennifer Macalady
05:15 pm – Closing Comments
05:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Graduate Student Poster Session + Reception
Day 2 – May 13
09:00 am – Welcome
09:30 am – Featured Speaker: Philip Ross – “Requirements for Mycotechnology Infrastructure”
10:30 am – Panel: “Socio- and Technoeconomic Implications of Fungal Biomaterials”
Panelists: Philip Ross, Rahman Azari, Juliana Vasco-Correa
Panel Chair: Juan Pablo Gevaudan
11:30 am – Featured Speaker: Lynn Rothschild – “Mycotecture Off Planet”
12:30 pm – Lunch Break
01:30 pm – Workshop topics presented; participants broken down into groups
01:45 pm – Workshop sessions #01
03:15 pm – Coffee Break
03:30 pm – Workshop sessions #02
05:00 pm – Coffee Break
05:15 pm – Groups reunite; workshop leaders present the outcomes
06:00 pm – Closing comments
Day 3 – May 14
Mushroom foraging