Science outreach

Public talks

Fungi fact or fungi fiction

A talk given on 23rd May 2023 at the Norwich ‘Living Small in a Big World’ event of the Pint of Science Festival 2023, mythbusting some of the things you may hear about fungi in the media.

Why fungi are the best friends (and worst enemies) you never knew you had

A talk given on 11th May 2022 at the ‘Unloved Animals Club: Battle of the Kingdoms’ event of the Pint of Science Festival 2022. It won over the audience and fungi were voted the best-loved kingdom of the night!

Seed Banks as Incidental Fungal Endophyte Banks

A talk given at the BMS Autumn Open Meeting 2020 based on this study.

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Podcast interviews

Hunting for fungi in the world’s largest seed bank

The Conversation Weekly Podcast, 19th May 2021

The world of fungi inside seed banks

The Naked Scientists, 8th April 2021

Undiscovered Colombia

BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth, 18th April 2018 - I provided audio soundbites

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Articles/blogs

How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank

The Conversation, 22nd March 2021 (republished by BBC Future 31st March 2021)

Meet the firestarting fungus

kew.org, 8th August 2019

Nature’s first aid kit: a fungus growing on the side of birch tree

The Conversation, 21st May 2019

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Video

The Forgotten Kingdom: Finding fungi in Colombia

I filmed and edited this short film of a fungi collecting expedition in Colombia