Critical to my career in mycelium technology development is a core interest in designing with the physical and behavioral richness of filamentous fungi. Every project starts with attention to and respect for the natural physicality and behavior of each strain I work with, and elucidating the functional phenotype of each strain is central to realizing the value potential of mycelium technology. To realize this a multi-disciplinary approach combining fungal biology, bioreactor and cultural method development, physical/metabolic/kinetic featurization, and high-dimensional learning is critical to my practice. Some additional projects include:

• Development of high-throughput aerial mycelium phenotyping systems (proprietary and unpublished).

• Development of quantitative analysis methods for inter-particle hyphal morphologies in mycelium composites with elaboration to predictive models for macro-mechanical properties (as partially described in Hyde et al).

• Developing methodologies which leverage ecological and temporal dynamics to achieve high-volume material myceliation for scaled mycelium composite manufacturing (as described in Hyde et al. 2019 and United States Patent Grant 9914906).

• Description of fruiting conditions for mushroom species for which mushroom production had not been previously described (proprietary and unpublished).

• Elaboration of strain isolation and culture maintenance methodologies for the culinarily important mycoparasite Hypomyces lactifluorum (proprietary and unpublished).

• Bioprospecting and process development projects spanning hundreds of species and countless strains across the Basidiomycota and Ascomycota.