When and Where do We Meet?
Members of the South Carolina Upstate Mycological Society meet monthly, except for January, on the first Monday of the month or as the schedule allows.
Check below for specific dates, locations, and speaker information.
Meetings start at 6:30pm, arrive any time after 6:00pm.
The format of the meetings is intended to be casual and social. We typically have a speaker who gives a presentation on a mycological topic of their choice, and also discuss recent fungal finds, arrange the upcoming foray, work on identifying specimens, etc.
All levels of knowledge are welcome!
Meeting place: See individual event for location, it changes based on availability.
Upcoming Meetings
SCUMS monthly meeting: Monday, June 1st
Christopher Maurer, of redhouse studio
will present
"Mycotecture: Building with fungi as a model for regenerative architecture"
Chris Maurer is the founder and Principal Architect of redhouse studio in Cleveland, where the team designs buildings grown from mycelium and other living materials. He's a Co-Investigator on NASA's "Mycotecture Off Planet" program, exploring how fungi could grow habitats on the Moon and Mars, and led the design of MycoHab in Namibia — the world's first structural mycelium building with MIT. Closer to home, his work Biocycler investigates using fungi to recycle and remediate demolition material into healthy homes. Tag: instagram and linkedin @redhousestudioarchitecture When: Monday, June 1. Join us any time after 6:00 pm, meeting starts at 6:30 pm.
Where: We will meet on the Clemson University campus (The Easley Library has been reserved for internal use).
The Location: Biosystems Research Complex | 105 Collings Street Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0310. Map is here. We are meeting in G-100, which is directly in front of you when you enter through the doors indicated on the map.
Parking: As a visitor, you must park and pay in a metered space A map to the metered spaces (Parking E-1) is here. Meters take credit cards, cash, etc. Yes, you do have to pay in the evening/night. You can find more information with details here. The metered spaces are not far from the meeting spot, if you look at the map you can see they are in the parking lot adjacent to the Biosystems Research Complex.
Please give yourselves more time to find us! We have a nice meeting space in this building, and appropriately a lot of great research dealing with fungi and plants is conducted in the labs upstairs. We have access to the break room and food and drinks are allowed. As always, we need to clean up after ourselves and leave the room as we found it.
Volunteers: I need 1-2 people to tend to the front doors, since they require a card key 24/7. If you are available to arrive by 6:00 and stand by the doors to let others in, please let me know (jkerrig@clemson.edu). We always need help breaking things down and cleaning up after the meeting.
NAMA Events Webinars
These events are free for NAMA members or often $5 for non-members.
SCUMS is a NAMA affiliate, so if you choose to join NAMA (wise choice!) you get a discount on your annual membership.
You can check out upcoming webinars and past recordings here: https://namyco.org/events/webinars/