Botany 135, T. Th. 1:30-2:45	George Wong, St. John, 612B
Fall Semester, 2007	Phone: X63940
	Email: gwong@hawaii.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30
Magical Mushrooms and Mystical Molds
Dates	Topics	PDF Files
A Few Words About Fungi
08/21/07	Introduction, Grades, etc.	Lect01
08/23/07	The Rotten World About Us (BBC Video Tape)
08/27/07	Last day to drop classes (without "W" grade)
08/28/07	Fungal Diversity	Lect02
08/30/07	How Fungi Get Their Name and How They Are Classified	Lect03
09/04/07	How Do Fungi Get Around?	Lect04
Fungi as Pathogens
09/06/07	Introduction to Plan Pathology, Irish Potato	Lect05
	Famine, Downy Mildew of Grapes & Some
	Diseases of Trees
09/11/07	Wheat, coffee and other rusts, and smuts	Lect06
09/13/07	Fungi as Human Pathogens	Lect07
09/18/07	Field Trip: Plant Pathology Department
09/20/07	Saprobic Activities of Fungi	Lect08
Mycotoxins
09/25/07	Discovery of Mycotoxins and Common Examples	Lect09
09/27/07	Mycotoxins in the Work Place & Homes	Lect10
	Secrets of the Dead: Witches Curse (PBS Video)
10/02/07	Mycotoxins: Ergot of Rye	Lect11
10/04/07	Mycotoxins: The Story of LSD	Lect12
10/08/07	Study Session for First Exam, 3:30
10/09/07	First Exam
Fungi in Food and Beverages
10/11/07	Yeast and Fermentation, Alcoholic Beverages: Beer, Wine, Liquor, etc.	Lect13
10/16/07	Home Brew: A Video on How to Make Beer at Home
10/18/07	Fungi and their role in manufacturing of food	Lect14
	product: Bread, Cheese, Tofu, Tempe, Miso, etc.
10/19/07	Last day for in-person restricted withdrawals (with "W" grade)
10/23/07	No Field Trip. Brew Moon no longer offers tours! No lecture!
10/25/07	Wild Edible Mushrooms	Lect15
10/30/07	Cultivation of Mushrooms and Other Fungi	Lect16
11/01/07	Poisonous Mushrooms	Lect17
Other Uses of Fungi
11/06/07	Mushrooms and Religion: Amanita muscaria	Lect18
	(The Fly Agaric)
11/08/07	Mushrooms and Religion:  Conocybe,	Lect19
	Panaeolus, Psilocybe and Stropharia	Lect20
11/13/07	The Story of Penicillin, Wonder Drug
11/14/07	Study Session for Second Exam, 3:30
11/15/07	Second Exam
11/20/07	The Aftermath of Penicillin	Lect21
11/22/07	Holiday - Thanksgiving Day
	Time Machine: Hippies (History Channel Documentary) History of Psychedelia (BBC)
11/27/07	Psychedelic Music & Art	Lect22
11/29/07	Symbiotic Relationships: Fungi and Plants:	Lect23
	(Mycorrhizae), and Algae (Lichens)
12/04/07	Fungi and Animals	Lect24
12/06/07	Fungi as Bioherbicides, Bioinsecticides and
	Biofungicides	Lect25
12/12/07	Study Session?
12/13/07 (Thursday)	Final Exam, 12:00 - 2:00

The all important grade

There will be two exams (25% each X 2 = 50%), mostly multiple choices, with a few short answers that are based mostly on my lectures and readings from the course web page. The final exam will not be cumulative, and will cover the lecture material starting from November 27. The value of the final exam will be the same (25%) as one of the semester exams. A term paper (25%) will be done on some topic of your choosing having to do with some aspect of fungi. The topic does not necessarily have to be a topic that we will be covering this semester. You can select any topic that you feel will be of interest. However, before starting your paper check with me to be certain that the topic will be appropriate. Please try to decide on a topic and discuss it with me as soon as possible. The paper should be between 8-12 pages and have a detailed bibliography.