Slime Moulds: The Sexy Impostors of the Fungi World
Location
Du Cane Brewing
About
We promised fungi… but nature had other plans.
Slime moulds look like fungi, live where fungi live and appear on forest logs after rain — yet scientifically they are something else entirely.
In this delightfully mind-bending talk, internationally renowned Tasmanian naturalist Sarah Lloyd introduces these extraordinary organisms that creep, pulse and sometimes behave in ways that resemble intelligence.
Meet the blobs, both through th talk and the microscope, that challenge how we classify life and may permanently change the way you look at a damp piece of wood.
Slime moulds look like fungi, live where fungi live and appear on forest logs after rain — yet scientifically they are something else entirely.
In this delightfully mind-bending talk, internationally renowned Tasmanian naturalist Sarah Lloyd introduces these extraordinary organisms that creep, pulse and sometimes behave in ways that resemble intelligence.
Meet the blobs, both through th talk and the microscope, that challenge how we classify life and may permanently change the way you look at a damp piece of wood.