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Home » EEB Graduate Student Django Grootmyers discusses “zombie” fungi on WVLT

EEB Graduate Student Django Grootmyers discusses “zombie” fungi on WVLT

March 6, 2023 by ldutton

Fungi have come to the cultural forefront with the new popular series, “The Last of Us” on HBO. The series, based upon the video game of the same name, is set in an alternate 2023, during which a mass fungal infection has caused societal breakdown. In this piece produced by CBS-affiliate WVLT, EEB graduate student Django Grootmyers discusses whether this fiction could ever become fact. 

https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/03/05/growing-danger-your-backyard/

Filed Under: ecology, fungi, Graduate Students, MAIN, Matheny, media, Uncategorized

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