Tue, Apr 21
|Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange
April Speaker | Damon Tighe : Bioluminescence and UV fluorescence in CA
Intro
Time & Location
Apr 21, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
About This Event
Please join us on April 15 for this month's featured speaker--after you finish your taxes!
FFSC members gather together on the third Wednesday of the month from September through May to catch up, discuss club business, and learn from interesting speakers. Plus, you can bring any fungi you have been lucky enough to find for identification!
This month we feature Damon Tighe, who will talk about bioluminescence and UV fluorescence in California.
Would you like to get to know this month's speaker better? Join us for Dinner with the Speaker at 5pm, prior to this event.
About the Speaker
Born in Klamath Falls Oregon and raised in Calaveras County of California, Damon Tighe attended Saint Mary’s college of Moraga California where he worked on local newspapers while earning a Biology/Chemistry degree.
He taught High School in Portland, Oregon and moved back to the Bay Area to work on the Human Genome Project. He currently works for Bio-Rad laboratories designing curriculum and training educators from Colorado to the coast in biotechnology.
Schedule
1 hourAppetizer Social
20 minutesClub Business