Monika S. Fischer

@mofisch.bsky.social

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Fungi. Fire. Genetics. Ecology. (she/her) 🍄🔥Assistant Prof at UBC Vancouver: @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @forestry.ubc.ca 📍grateful guest on the Salish Coast Lab Website: fischerlab.botany.ubc.ca

Jason Stajich on stage welcoming a large crowd of mycologists to the Fungal Genetics Conference in a large wood room at Asilomar Conference Grounds
Photo of a square wood board with several wood dowels rising up out of the board at various heights and positions
Six happy mycologists standing in a line showing off their favorite finds of the day. In the background is a dry, mostly brown, recently burned forest.
A femme South-Asian (Gujarati) grad student wearing a tan touque sits in front of a laptop and a small audience gathered in black plastic chairs. A projector screen displays the text, “The Roots We Are - Exploring Our Material Entanglement”. Behind the student is an aesthetic arrangement of several sheets of paper containing images and text, below which are 3D examples of mycomaterials in various stages of production.
Urn-shaped brown mushrooms fruiting amid a landscape of charcoal and pine needles. Photo taken last weekend near Cache Creek, BC
Photo of a white bookshelf with 10 copies of the Mushrooms of Cascadia by Schwarz & Siegle, in addition to a smorgasbord of other books, most about fungi.
Photo of a beige box on a dark counter top - the box is the plate reader! A black rectangular tray extends out of the front of a box and a pale hand reaches toward it as if to shake hands
Image of an image being projected onto a screen, which says “the genome is an ecosystem” with an illustration of transposons jumping around the genome
A cross-section of a lichen thallus is projected onto a large screen in a wood-paneled meeting room, with a man standing to the right, dressed in dark colors, talking and gesticulating
A very happy lady wearing a pink scarf with her arms raised with glee as she sits comfortably inside a very large cardboard box
Computer screenshot of a Zoom window showing mathematical equations on the left, and people's faced in boxes on the right
Multiple stacks of many white boxes with text and barcodes.
Earthquake map
On the right side, a brown-haired Juan stands behind a podium and gazes pensively to the left. Behind him is a projector screen displaying the title slide of his presentation, slightly obscured by two long-haired audience members in the foreground. The presentation titled reads, “structure and function of the apical reticulum in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa”
Antiquated book cover for “How to tell the birds from the flowers” - below is an illustration of a crow and a crocus that look whimsically similar!
Photo of six brown and white speckled owls standing tall on their hilariously skinny legs
graph showing number of acres burned on the vertical axis, and years on the horizontal axis
Dense fog at UBC with a fountain the foreground, and trees and people fading into the fog behind the fountain
Photo of a back ink tattoo on a pale forearm
All foods made up of at least 2 ingredients can be classified according to two axes: (1) un-structured [soups & salads] vs structured [sandwiches & pies], and (2) the ingredients assembled together into their final shape before [pies & soups] or after [sandwiches & salads] any cooking