Ray Van Court

PhD student researching applied mycology. Bioremediation, fungal colorants, medicinal fungi, pigments for optoelectronics, decay. They/them 🌈

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@ashep114 Unfortunately I do not, fungi are my focus. Good luck though!

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Isolating Chlorociboria is always beautiful

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@CloudyPogoreutz This is just MEA, but I have a publication comparing growth and pigmentation across a number of medias if you’d like to know more. https://t.co/14KBeXjMhl

[Uehling Lab @UehlingLab]

Im very proud of this open access review- diversity, genomics & indigenous history of psilocybin fungal medicines. shout out to project leads @rcvancourt & @mswiseman
https://t.co/EWm4MOMEtL! (1/5)

#fungi #mushrooms #psilocybe #psilocybin

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@moragclinton Thanks, yours is great too. I made meringue, fondant, and modeling chocolate for this to get all the textures right.

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

When a mycologist makes a cake. . . #fungus #cake

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@blackforager @MelRebels Thank you! Loved making it 😂. Fungus forever.

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@Selcoeurl @sephiramy Ha, nope. That would have scared off some of my mycophobic fam and I wanted it to be eaten.

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@stannieholt Nope, the orange ones (chicken of the woods) are fondant I made, the others (turkey tails) are modeling chocolate!

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@Pedro_HerveF Chocolate and Grand Mariner. . . It was pretty good

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@Ina_Eder I made a sheet of dark chocolate, covered it in powdered sugar when it was mostly cooled, then brushed most of it off. I was going for it looking like a hardwood tree for more biological accuracy 😂

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@JennyKurzweil @jiwandeepkohli It is an Amanita muscaria, common name fly agaric. They’re pretty beautiful mushrooms.

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

@CrystationalBio Yes! Decided to really go for it this year.

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Some fun fruiting from Gloeophyllum trabeum in our soil block decay test today #fungi #Biodeterioration

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Two of my favorite fungi, fruiting together at last (Candy caps and Chlorociboria) #fungifriends

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Applying fungal pigment resulted in some fun patterns on the latewood of this Doug fir. The pigment was extracted from wood colonized by a species of Chlorociboria. #fungalpigments #spalting #woodart

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@mswiseman @JessieUehling I’m not sure I was there for the entire 40h last year 😂. Your dedication level was impressive.

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Gotta love some good deliquescent shaggy manes (coprinus comatus)

[Ray Van Court @rcvancourt]

Love it when fungi highlight wood anatomy - the resistant heartwood here is left alone while fungi compete to decay the rest. Also look at those oak rays and growth rings 😍 #spalting #woodanatomy #fungi