The speaker at our September 13, 2019 meeting will be Dr. Ashley Klymiuk, Collections Manager, Paleobotany, at the Field Museum. The topic of her talk will be "Fossils from the Fifth Kingdom: from moulds to mycorrhizae". Come on out... it should be very interesting! Here is a link to a ScienceDaily article about some of her recent research.
Dr. Az Klymiuk is a Métis Canadian botanist, mycologist, and paleontologist. Her research comprises comparative plant anatomy of gymnosperms and morphological systematics of fossilized microfungi. In the course of her doctoral work at the University of Kansas, she became interested in plant-microbe interactions in dynamic redox systems that characterize wetland soils, and has worked to understand how the ecology of living root-associated fungi is impacted by these harsh biogeochemical conditions. At the Field Museum, she is the collections manager for Paleobotany.
