For episode 55 we talked with John Donoghue, the President of Northwest Mycological Consultants Inc. about mushrooms - about what his company does to support industrial mushroom growth and their potential uses in almost every industry from leather and packaging to meat alternatives and nutraceuticals.
John Donoghue is president of Northwest Mycological Consultants, Inc (NMC), an Oregon-based firm serving the specialty-mushroom industry since 1985. NMC produces top-quality spawn and supplies for the commercial mushroom industry worldwide and has developed a line of automated inoculation equipment and a suite of mushroom cultivation bags specifically for the spawn and specialty –mushroom industries.
John has been instrumental in developing the specialty mushroom industry in the Pacific Northwest and has worked on mushroom-production and research projects around the globe, including in Vietnam, Laos, Bhutan, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Iceland and Australia. John Donoghue is a coauthor of “The Shiitake Growers Handbook, the Art and Science of Mushroom Cultivation”, a definitive resource for shiitake growers worldwide He has published dozens of scientific research and industry review articles about mushroom cultivation and has given presentations at industry and scientific meetings on most continents. John has a unique perspective of mushroom cultivation based on his far –flung involvement with a diverse array of production systems and research projects.
Tune in to learn more from John about all things mushrooms!
This week's episode was hosted by Dr. Shawn Lockery, the Co-founder & CTO of InVivo Biosystems and a professor of biology at the University of Oregon.
