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Note this event is being held in place of the ION Seminar Series time slot. Please join us!
Let us convene our annual:
ION DEI Town Hall meeting
Thursday February 16th at 4pm in the Knight Campus Beetham Seminar Room
(Zoom option will be made available through ION listserv)
The agenda for the meeting will be:
1) Organizing our delegation to the annual SACNAS conference in Portland in October 2023, in coordination with a large effort from other Departments on campus.
2) Updates on current DEI efforts at ION.
3) Open mic to hear from the ION community about current issues and challenges, and suggestions for future efforts.
On behalf of the ION DEI committee,
Luca & Cris
Please join us for ION Science Hour this afternoon at 5 pm in the LISB Atrium. Talk science, whip up a new collaboration, enjoy salty snacks, gluten free options, and as always plenty of high-quality beverages.
Jessie Uehling is a mycologist and an Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. She runs a mycological research lab focused on genetic diversity and evolution of fungi via their symbioses with other organisms. She currently is also a co-chair and the Mycologist for the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board. In this talk she will describe the morphological and genetic diversity of psilocybin producing fungi. She will also detail the current usage by species and country, and ethnobotanical history for psilocybin producing fungi uses. Last she will describe the structure and functioning of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board, and mycological logic underpinning recommendations for what are now the ORS 475A Psilocybin Regulations.