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Botany
2008 Plenary Lecture
Paul Stamets has written six mushroom-related
books. Several are used as textbooks around the world by
the gourmet and medicinal mushroom industries. He is the
author of many scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals
(The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms; Evidence
Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM, Oxford
University Press); Herbalgram, and others)
He has written more than a twenty patents. He started a mushroom wholesale
and retail sales business, Fungi Perfecti,
LLC, in 1980. The business has four laboratories, 10,000 sq. ft. of clean rooms,
and is equipped with 20+ laminar flow benches for doing in vitro propagation
work.
Paul has received several environmental awards. He is an
advisor to the Program of Integrative Medicine at the University
of Arizona Medical School, Tucson; on the Editorial Board
of The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, and
was appointed to the G.A.P./G.M.P. Board of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
Dr. Andrew recommends his products. Stamets is the supplier
and co-investigator of the first two NIH funded clinical
studies using medicinal mushrooms in the United States. His
strain collection is extensive and unique, with many of the
strains coming from old growth forests. He is involved in
several other research trials ongoing and pending.
He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The
Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder
of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association
of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. In 2008,
Paul received the National Geographic Adventure’s Magazine’s
Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation’s E-chievement
Awards.
Married to Dusty Yao, whose shares a passion for fungi,
their love of the Old Growth forests, and that fungi can
help save the world.
Presented
by
Special
Lecture
Speciation
Genes in Plants
Date: Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM SUB 209
Loren Rieseberg was born in Alberta,
Canada, in 1961. However, before he was able to fully develop
his skills as a hockey player, his family moved to that large
country immediately to the south, where he completed his
education and accepted his first academic position. Loren
finally returned to the mother ship in 2006, when he accepted
a Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics at
the University of British Columbia. He retains a joint appointment
as a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University in the
USA.
Loren studies the genetics of adaptation and speciation in plants, focusing
on the ecology and evolution of wild, weedy, and domesticated species in the
sunflower family. His work has been recognized by MacArthur and Guggenheim
Fellowships and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also
has served as President of the American Genetics Association.
Regional
Botany Special Lecture
Carl
Wieman received his B.S. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1973 and
his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. He was at
the University of
Colorado from 1984 to 2006 as a Distinguished Professor
of
Physics
and Presidential Teaching Scholar.
In January 2007,
he joined the University of British Columbia
as the Director of the
Carl Wieman Science
Education Initiative; he retains a 20% appointment
at the University of Colorado, Boulder to head
the science education initiative
he
founded.
These collaborative initiatives are aimed at achieving
departmental-wide sustainable change in undergraduate
science education.
He
has carried out research in a variety of areas
of
atomic physics and laser spectroscopy. His research has
been
recognized with numerous awards including the Nobel
Prize in Physics
in 2001. He has worked on a variety of research
and innovations in teaching physics to a broad range of
students,
including
the Physics
Education Technology Project, that creates
educational online interactive simulations and
studies their effectiveness. He also does research
on student
beliefs about physics and on problem-solving skills.
He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s
Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award in 2001, the
Carnegie Foundation’s
U.S. University Professor of the Year Award in
2004, and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Oersted
Medal in 2007. He is a member of the National Academy
of Sciences and chairs the Academy Board on Science
Education.
