2025 SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp

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Faculty Biographies

Gabriel Smith

Gabriel R. Smith is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, where he studies fungal ecology with Kabir Peay. He began his mycological career studying pine-associated mycorrhizal fungi at the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, graduating in 2015. He then spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where he researched interactions between wood-decay fungi and conifer roots. He started his PhD at Stanford University in 2016.