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SUMMARY:Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, an
 d Shape Our Futures - Dr Merlin Sheldrake\, Independent Scholar
DTSTART:20220203T130000Z
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CONTACT:Jake Harris
DESCRIPTION:Thinking about fungi makes the world look different. Most fung
 i live out of sight\, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms
  that support and sustain nearly all living systems. Fungi invite us to ex
 amine many of our well-worn concepts – from individuality to intelligenc
 e – and raise a multitude of fascinating questions for researchers worki
 ng to make sense of the living world\, particuarly those thinking about pl
 ants. In this seminar\, Merlin will explore the remarkable abilities of fu
 ngi and plants to stike up relationships and outline some of the outstandi
 ng questions and challenges facing researchers today\, including a discuss
 ion of electrical signalling and communication within fungal networks.\n\n
 Merlin is an ecologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Wo
 rlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures\, a New York Times and Sun
 day Times bestseller\, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the 
 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation. Merlin received a Ph.
 D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on undergrou
 nd fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama\, where he was a predocto
 ral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is 
 a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam\, and works with th
 e Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundat
 ion. \n\n\nContact reception@plantsci.cam.ac.uk for a Zoom link prior to a
  talk if you are not on our mailing list. Due to having to go online\, we 
 are restricting the talks to University of Cambridge and alumni to keep th
 em as informal as possible.
LOCATION:Online
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