Interview: Nick Femia (co-owner SA Mushrooms)
Guest speaker: Arend van Peer – Wageningen University & Research
Rein van Grieken – Kekkilä-BVB
Guest speaker: Jaime Carrasco – CTICH
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Rein van Grieken Business line manager Mushrooms Kekkilä-BVB |
Rein is one of Kekkilä-BVB’s experts when it comes to the international mushroom and blueberry industries.
Traveling has always been part of Rein’s life and he loves the freedom it brings and the way it helps him grow as a person. As a result he has visited and supported a lot of different mushroom growers all around the globe.
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Arend van Peer Team leader Mushroom Research Wageningen University & Research |
Arend van Peer works as a team leader Mushroom Research at Plant Breeding of Wageningen University & Research.
His interest in fungi started during his Master’s in Biology at the RijksUniversiteit Groningen. Arend was intrigued by their physiology, genetics, and biotechnological applications. During his Ph.D. thesis, he soon realized that studies on applications of mushroom-forming fungi, other than as crops, were only just emerging. A whole unknown and exciting world was awaiting exploration! |
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Jaime Carrasco CTICH |
Dr. Jaime Carrasco works at ASOCHAMP-CTICH (Spain) as a researcher. Besides, he is an academic visitor researcher at Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford. Jaime is the Innovation Manager for the BIOSCHAMP project, an EU-funded research project that aims to develop an alternative and sustainable peat-reduced biostimulant casing for the mushroom industry, reducing the dependency on and need for pesticides and contributing to improve the productivity, the sustainability, and the profitability of the European mushroom sector. |
We’re hosting this webinar at 08:00 am CEST on October 6th.
If this clashes with your schedule just join us later that day at 15:00 CEST! We’ll be hosting the same webinar with the opportunity to ask your questions during a live Q&A session with our experts.