SAES research shows up on far side of Pacific Rim

Dr. Omon Isikhuemhen, the SAES mycologist who coordinates the Mushroom Biology & Fungal Biotechnolgy Laboratory at the University Farm, has been invited to give a poster presentation on his research work and to serve as a session co-convener at the 5th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference in Nantong, China, the first week in September. Isikhuemhen is serving as co-convener for a conference  session covering “Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics.” In another of the conference’s eight sessions, one  devoted to Taxonomy, Ecology, and Germplasm Depositories,” he is scheduled to present research that he and a colleague have conducted into “Mating Pattern and Preliminary Studies on Strain Selection in the Tropical Mushroom Lentinus Squarrosulus Mont.”

The 5th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference in Nantong was organized by many of the same scientists who have established the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. The conference brings medical doctors and immunologists together along with mycologists for research updates and subsequent technical developments. Isikhuemhen served on the International Scientific Committee for the 5th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference.