Antoni Gandia - With some Shiitakes ;) (Lentinula edodes)
Catalan biotechnologist specialized in mushroom cultivation, fermentation and innovative mycotechnologies, more specifically in mechanisms regarding symbiotic relationships between fungi, animals and plants.
B.Sc. in Forest Engineering (2008) and M.Sc. in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2011), Antoni currently works as consultant and research scientist for diverse companies in the fermentation and fungal biotechnology sector. He is the Chief Technology Officer at MOGU since March 2018, an environmentally-conscious company dedicated to developing and scaling-up a range of mycelium-based technologies for the production of innovative and naturally-grown biomaterials.
Antoni has previously worked in several international biotechnology companies and organisations across continents such as Ecovative Design LLC (2016-2017), Mushroom Production Center MPC GmbH (2015), Mondo Mycologicals B.V. (2014-2015) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU (2013-2014). Since 2017 he is also member of the advisory board of Kanpur FlowerCycling Pvt. Ltd., a circular economy enterprise focused on recycling floral-waste from temples in Uttar Pradesh (India) into biodegradable household goods.
Personal blog: http://www.fungicultura.info
I don't work at Mediamatic anymore, so my @mediamatic.net email is expired or redirected to another person. Please, contact me at tiobolet {@} gmail.com. I'm also available on Instagram (@Fungicultura), Twitter (@mind2merkabah), Facebook and other platforms by my real name. Thanks!
Agar plate - Shiitake mycelium growing on agar
Tòfona de Vistabella - Tuber melanosporum from cultivated fields in Vistabella del Maestrat, Spain.
Champignons in my kitchen :) - Indoor cultivated Agaricus bisporus
Baby reishi mushroom - A little reishi pinhead popping out from a coffee jar.
The first phase of mushroom cultivation is the isolation of a pure culture of mycelium. These cultures are grown in petri dishes, with a medium (food) for the mycelium to digest. Here are some...
An essential characteristic for a insulating panel should be fire resistance, so we tested our samples to check how good they are against fire.
This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.
Mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus, is one of those pretty invisible organism which, if put in the right condtions, reproduces itself like crazy! That's why in the last years it became one of...
Exhibit of substrate bags, fungal biomaterial samples and some tools used for growing mushrooms in the Mediamatic Fabriek, late 2014.
Future space for the Medimatic's Biolab
Some early design proposals for the Mediamatic's Biolab
Taking a photo of a recent petri dish by Antoni
Kasia Lukasievicz shows a sample of Schizophyllum sp. fructifying on a Petri dish
