Alistair studies fungal diversity and evolution as a researcher at the University of Queensland and the Chief Scientific Officer at Funky Fungus. He has studied the diversity, genetics, mating, and secondary metabolites produced by magic mushrooms (species of Psilocybe) in Australia, with a long term aim to improve yields of psilocybin that can be used to treat mental health disorders. Alistair has established the richest, legal, genetic collection of magic mushrooms in the world, resolved how magic mushrooms reproduce, developed new genotypes based on provenance, studied genetic variations at the psilocybin locus among populations, and shown whether different species of Psilocybe had a centre of origin in Australia using population genomics. Come talk to Alistair any time about his latest research on magic mushrooms.