Mushrooms in Space: How Fungi Eat Metal on the ISS
2:15 PM - 3:15 PMSat
Speakers
Joseph Bates
Veteran and Student
Join Joseph Bates whose experiment with fungi, microgravity and nickel is on the International Space Station. He conducts research on using fungi to recycle metals and to support future space exploration. Design an experiment to pull material off a metal oxide sample, modeling what the fungus is doing in orbit.