10/14/2026
Join us for the first meeting of the 2026-27 LAMS season, featuring Alex Carillo, PhD, with his presentation:
“ExFAB: a Biofoundry for the Study of Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria”
Monday October 19, 2026
Sparr Heights Community Center
Glendale, CA
Mushroom ID — 6:30 PM
Main Talk — 7:30 PM
Bring in any specimens (or photos of specimens) for identification and discussion.
• This event is free and open to the public!
• Talk will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel (link in bio) starting around 7:30 PM on the day.
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Program:
ExFAB: a Biofoundry for the study of Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria
The ExFAB biofoundry seeks to develop automated workflows to discover, phenotype, and prototype biology from extreme and exceptional fungi, archaea, and bacteria. Dr. Alex Carrillo will be talking about a breadth of projects that have been run through ExFAB. These projects involve bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi.
Several stories highlight research on yeasts and filamentous fungi, including a study of a common yeast's tolerance to heavy metals and the development of high-throughput methods for phenotyping solid cultures of sporulating and non-sporulating filamentous fungi.
Bio:
Dr. Alex Carrillo is the Lead Scientist for the ExFAB project at the University of California, Riverside. He earned his PhD in Microbiology from University of California, Riverside studying G-protein signaling in the filamentous fungi Neurospora crassa. His work used large-scale phenotyping with statistical clustering analysis to potentially uncover previously unknown enzymes involved in signaling pathways.
