Kelly Collins says, " I returned to school as an adult after many years of finding lots of things I didn't want to do." After receiving an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan, Ms. Collins enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she discovered FUNGI. She worked there with Drs. Hal Burdsall and Tom Volk on Omphalotus olearius. She then went on to get a Master's at San Francisco State University with Dr. Dennis Desjardin working on the tropical poroid agarics of Java and Bali. Kelly Collins is currently a Ph.D. candidate with Dr. Randy Molina at Oregon State University working on the population genetics of Cantharellus formosus.

So if you wouldn't know Cantharellus formosus (Oregon's state mushroom) from Omphalotus olearius (the Jack-O-Lantern mushroom), from poroid agarics of Indonesia, find Kelly. She knows. And ask her what she likes in her stir-frys.