Monday 13th October 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Talk by Professor Neil Gow, University of Exeter.
Good Fungus, Bad Fungus – how fungi have shaped the ancient and modern world
To most people, fungi means mushrooms, and to a few more, yeasts, moulds and mildews. Indeed, fungi are all these, and these organisms, the second largest group outside the bacteria, give us a myriad of essential products from antibiotics to enzymes and food products. Eleven people have won the Nobel Prize for their work on fungi and what these amazing organisms have told us about life on the planet. This has led to a lot of recent interest in the fungi as a group of organisms with fascinating and critical properties.
