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For nearly a century, psychoactive boletes causing visions of little people have been rumored to exist, yet virtually nothing was known about them.
By combining ethnomycological fieldwork with DNA sequencing of collections from independent reports of hallucinogenic boletes across cultures, we discovered a common species responsible: Lanmaoa asiatica.
Genome mining of Lanmaoa asiatica failed to detect biosynthetic genes associated with psilocybin or ibotenic acid production, suggesting a novel psychoactive compound is responsible.
In this talk, Colin will tell the story of these enigmatic mushrooms, from their cultural history to modern scientific relevance, interweaving his personal insights gained along the way.
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Colin Domnauer is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah working in the Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah. His current research has taken him from the tropical forests of southern China to the remote mountains of the northern Philippines in search of an elusive ethnomycological mystery: a hallucinogenic bolete mushroom reported to induce visions of little people.
Instead of cluttering your life with more earthly possessions, why not embark on a celestial adventure and explore the wonders of the Fungal Universe?
