This month we are going to blog about "-ology". The life sciences have a host of sub areas of study that you may or may not have heard of before. For this month's blog I would like to find and share an "-ology" that you might be interested in or one in which you don't know anything about. Please post the name of the area of study and then give a brief overview of what it is and the jobs that are associated with this field. (Let's try not to have any repeats!) I will start us off:
Mycology is the study of fungi, its taxonomy, genetics and chemical properties. Experts in this field work in the medical, and food industries. When I was an undergraduate student at Iowa State University, two of my favorite professors (Dr. George Knaphus and Dr. Louise Tiffany) were world renown mycologists and very good people.
