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Fungi in Space

presented by Fungi Town

Schertz Public Library

About:

University of Georgia, 2016

Fungi Town, 2018

Recording!

Our Journey

How?

  • Fungi Basics
  • History in Space
  • Survival
  • Friend or Foe?
  • Questions

Are you ready?

What

What?

is a fungus?

Plant?

Is a fungus a plant?

Nope!

While a fungus doesn't appear to move and often grows out of trees or the ground, fungi are not plants.

In fact, they're not even close.

What's the difference?

Not a plant...

  • Doesn't photosynthesize
  • No seeds or pollen
  • Chitin, not cellulose

  • Round, not square

Animal?

Is a fungus an animal?

Nope!

But, you're getting warmer. Fungi are more closely related to animals than plants.

How are they alike?

How are we alike?

  • Round, not square
  • Chitin, not cellulose
  • Heterotrophic
  • Family tree

Mushrooms

Where do fungi live?

Where do they live?

What do fungi eat?

What do they eat?

What are fungi good for?

What do they do?

  • Food
  • Medicine
  • Decomposition
  • Plants

Fungi found in space!

Mir, 1997

David Wolfe

Service panel

How?

International Space Station, 2019

3 flights

14 months

8 locations

April 2019

International Space Station

ISS

Penicillium chrysogenum

Rhodotorala mucilaginosa

So how did fungi get to space?

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Could fungi survive?

Life in space is a challenge!

Survival?

Zero Gravity

Radiation

Chernobyl, 1986

Carbon Dioxide

CO2

Friends or Foes?

  • Corrosion
  • Pathogens

Friends or Foes?

  • small spores
  • food
  • building

The verdict is still out

Studies

Clemson - Omega 3s

LIFE - Lichens and Fungi Experiment, cryptoendolithic, Antarctic

BIOMEX - Biology and Mars Experiment

BIOSIGN - Biosignatures and Habitable Niches, 2022

Expose-R

Questions?

Questions

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