Horticultural Alliance Will Host Zoom Talk by Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake on January 12

Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake, the author of “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures,” will be the next speaker in the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons monthly lecture series on Sunday, afternoon, January 12, presented live online.

Sheldrake is a biologist, writer and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology and the history and philosophy of science. His research ranges from fungal biology to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems. A brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and other organisms.

He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is an honorary research associate of the University of Oxford, a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) and the Fungi Foundation. He is the presenter of “Fungi: Web of Life,” a giant-screen documentary narrated by Björk.

“Entangled Life” is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, won the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize, and was nominated for a number of other prizes, including the British Book Awards and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It has been translated into 32 languages.

Merlin Sheldrake’s talk will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 12​, via Zoom. Tickets are $10 for nonmembers; admission is free for members of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons. Tickets may be purchased at hahgarden.org/tickets.