Michelle A. Jusino, PhD
Former Employee
Treesearch Publications
- Aishwarya Veerabahu, Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner, Anne Pringle, Michelle A. Jusino. 2025. Invasive golden oyster mushrooms are disrupting native fungal communities as they spread throughout North America
- Marcos V Caiafa, Laurel Kaminsky, Rosanne Healy, Leanne P. Sheffer, C. Benton Willis, Katy Deitz, Brantlee S. Richter, Benjamin R. Lemmond, David Borland, Bitty A. Roy, Heather A. Dawson, Carolyn A. Delevich, John S. Conery, Dylan Warner, Miroslav Caboň, Elena Karlsen-Ayala, Arthur C. Grupe, Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, Nicole K. Reynolds, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, Camille Truong, Adriana Corrales, Alija B. Mujic, Peter G. Kennedy, Michelle A. Jusino, Rachel A. Swenie, Chance R. Noffsinger, Django Grootmyers, P. Brandon Matheny, Andrew W. Wilson, Matthew E. Smith. 2025. Think globally, barcode locally: nine years of macrofungi sampling reveals extensive biodiversity at the ordway-swisher biological station, a subtropical site in Florida
- Elena Karlsen‐Ayala, Michelle A. Jusino, Matthew M. Smith, Romina Gazis. 2025. Salt life: salinity drives ectomycorrhizal community structure in the endangered pine rocklands
- Marcos V Caiafa, Paulo H. Grazziotti, Elena Karlsen-Ayala, Michelle A. Jusino, Rosanne Healy, Nicole K. Reynolds, W. Mark Whitten, Matthew E. Smith. 2024. Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Crocanthemum and Lechea (Cistaceae) in subtropical Florida sandhill habitats
- Katelyn Alexander, Michael S. Strickland, Martin F. Jurgensen, Michelle A. Jusino, Mark Banik, Derek Pierson, Joanne M. Tirocke, R. Kasten Dumroese, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Daniel Lindner. 2024. Long-term nitrogen addition in a boreal forest affects wood-inhabiting fungal communities and influences wood decomposition
- Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner, Michelle A. Jusino. 2024. Intraspecific interactions among wood-decay fungi alter decay rates and dynamics of interspecific interactions
- Lauren Cortez French, Michelle A. Jusino, Randolph M. Chambers, James Skelton. 2024. Community structure and functional diversity of aquatic fungi are correlated with water quality: insights from multi‐marker analysis of environmental DNA in a coastal watershed
- Brett R. Lane, Amy E. Kendig, Christopher M. Wojan, Ashish Adhikari, Michelle A. Jusino, Nicholas Kortessis, Margaret W. Simon, Robert D. Holt, Matthew E. Smith, Keith Clay, S. Luke Flory, Philip F. Harmon, Erica M. Goss. 2023. Fungicide-mediated shifts in the foliar fungal community of an invasive grass
- J. Aaron Hogan, Michelle A. Jusino, Matthew E. Smith, Adriana Corrales, Xiaoyang Song, Yue‐hua Hu, Jie Yang, Min Cao, Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes, Christopher Baraloto. 2023. Root‐associated fungal communities are influenced more by soils than by plant‐host root traits in a Chinese tropical forest
- Lili Perreault, Jodi A. Forrester, Daniel Lindner, Michelle A. Jusino, Shawn Fraver, Mark Banik, David J. Mladenoff. 2023. Linking wood-decay fungal communities to decay rates: Using a long-term experimental manipulation of deadwood and canopy gaps
- Elena Karlsen-Ayala, Michelle A. Jusino, Romina Gazis, Matthew E. Smith. 2023. Habitat matters: The role of spore bank fungi in early seedling establishment of Florida slash pines
- François Maillard, Michelle A. Jusino, Erin Andrews, Molly Moran, Grace J. Vaziri, Mark Banik, Nicolas Fanin, Carl C. Trettin, Daniel Lindner, Jonathan S. Schilling. 2022. Wood-decay type and fungal guild dominance across a North American log transplant experiment
- Kymberly R. Draeger, Daniel Lindner, Michelle A. Jusino, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Jonathan M. Palmer, Mark Banik. 2022. Effects of biochar addition on fungal communities: Implications for forest insects
- Michelle A. Jusino, Lynne Boddy. 2022. Fungal community structure, development and function in decomposing wood
- Tania N. Kim, Yury V Bukhman, Michelle A. Jusino, Erin D. Scully, Brian J. Spiesman, Claudio Gratton. 2022. Using high-throughput amplicon sequencing to determine diet of generalist lady beetles in agricultural landscapes
- Emma C. Gilmartin, Michelle A. Jusino, Edward J. Pyne, Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner, Lynne Boddy. 2022. Fungal endophytes and origins of decay in beech (Fagus sylvatica) sapwood
- Michelle A. Jusino, Natasha D.G. Hagemeyer, Mark Banik, Jonathan M. Palmer, Daniel Lindner, Matthew E. Smith, Walter D. Koenig, Eric L. Walters. 2022. Fungal communities associated with acorn woodpeckers and their excavations
- Lukas Landler, James Skelton, Michelle A. Jusino, Andy Van Lanen, Jeffrey R. Walters. 2022. Effects of cavity orientation on nesting success inferred from long-term monitoring of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker
- Amy K. Wray, Claudio Gratton, Michelle A. Jusino, Jing Jamie Wang, Jade M. Kochanski, Jonathan M. Palmer, Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner, M. Zachariah. Peery. 2022. Disease‐related population declines in bats demonstrate non‐exchangeability in generalist predators
- Andrew Stillman, Marcos Caiafa, Teresa Lorenz, Michelle A. Jusino, Morgan W. Tingley. 2022. DNA metabarcoding reveals broad woodpecker diets in fire-maintained forests
- Nicole K. Reynolds, Michelle A. Jusino, Jason E. Stajich, Matthew M. Smith. 2022. Understudied, underrepresented, and unknown: Methodological biases that limit detection of early diverging fungi from environmental samples
- Marcos V Caiafa, Michelle A. Jusino, Ann C. Wilkie, Iván A. Díaz, Kathryn E. Sieving, Matthew E. Smith. 2021. Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi
- Amy K. Wray, M. Zachariah Peery, Michelle A. Jusino, Jade M. Kochanski, Mark Banik, Jonathan M. Palmer, Daniel Lindner, Claudio Gratton. 2021. Predator preferences shape the diets of arthropodivorous bats more than quantitative local prey abundance
- Xueling Yi, Deahn Donner, Paula E. Marquardt, Jonathan M. Palmer, Michelle A. Jusino, Jacqueline Frair, Daniel Lindner, Emily K. Latch. 2020. Major histocompatibility complex variation is similar in little brown bats before and after white‐nose syndrome outbreak
- Weiwei Wang, Daniel Lindner, Michelle A. Jusino, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Jonathan M. Palmer, Mark Banik, Martin Jurgensen, Kymberly Draeger, Yong Liu. 2020. Wood-colonizing fungal community response to forest restoration thinnings in a Pinus tabuliformis plantation in northern China
- Michelle A. Jusino, Mark Banik, Jonathan M. Palmer, Amy K. Wray, Lei Xiao, Emma Pelton, Jesse R. Barber, Akito Y. Kawahara, Claudio Gratton, M. Zachariah Peery, Daniel Lindner. 2019. An improved method for utilizing high‐throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals
- James Skelton, Michelle A. Jusino, Paige S. Carlson, Katherine Smith, Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner, Jonathan M. Palmer, Jiri Hulcr. 2019. Relationships among wood‐boring beetles, fungi, and the decomposition of forest biomass
- James Skelton, Michelle A. Jusino, You Li, Craig Bateman, Pham Hong Thai, Chengxu Wu, Daniel Lindner, Jiri Hulcr. 2018. Detecting Symbioses in Complex Communities: the Fungal Symbionts of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles Within Asian Pines
- Jonathan M. Palmer, Michelle A. Jusino, Mark Banik, Daniel Lindner. 2018. Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data
- Amy K Wray, Michelle A. Jusino, Mark Banik, Jonathan M. Palmer, Heather Kaarakka, J Paul White, Daniel Lindner, Claudio Gratton, M Zachariah Peery. 2018. Incidence and taxonomic richness of mosquitoes in the diets of little brown and big brown bats
- Grant T. Kirker, Amy B. Bishell, Michelle A. Jusino, Jonathan M. Palmer, William J. Hickey, Daniel Lindner. 2017. Amplicon-Based Sequencing of Soil Fungi from Wood Preservative Test Sites
- You Li, Craig Christopher Bateman, James Skelton, Michelle A. Jusino, Zachary John Nolen, David Rabern Simmons, Jiri Hulcr. 2017. Wood decay fungus Flavodon ambrosius (Basidiomycota: Polyporales) is widely farmed by two genera of ambrosia beetles
- Michelle A. Jusino, Daniel Lindner, Mark Banik, Kevin R. Rose, Jeffrey R. Walters. 2016. Experimental evidence of a symbiosis between red-cockaded woodpeckers and fungi
- Michelle A. Jusino, Daniel Lindner, Mark Banik, Jeffrey R. Walters. 2015. Heart rot hotel: fungal communities in red-cockaded woodpecker excavations
- Michelle A. Jusino, Daniel Lindner, John K. Cianchetti, Adam T. Grisé, Nicholas J. Brazee, Jeffrey R. Walters. 2014. A Minimally Invasive Method for Sampling Nest and Roost Cavities for Fungi: a Novel Approach to Identify the Fungi Associated with Cavity-Nesting Birds
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Jusino, M.A., J. Skelton, CC Chen, J. Hulcr, and M.E. Smith. 2020. Sexual reproduction and saprotrophic dominance by the ambrosial fungus Flavodon subulatus (= Flavodon ambrosius). Fungal Ecology.
- Vaziri, G.J., M.A. Jusino, J.M. Palmer, M.T. Brewer, and J.S. Adelman. 2021. Anthelmintic drugs modulate the acute phase immune response but not the microbiome in wild song sparrows. Ornithology (formerly known as The Auk).
- Grupe, A.C., M.A. Jusino, A.B. Mujic, B. Spakes-Richter, G. Bonito, T. Brenneman, and M.E. Smith. 2021. Effects of field fumigation and inoculation with the pecan truffle (Tuber lyonii) on the fungal community of pecan (Carya illinoinensis) seedlings over five years. Frontiers in Microbiology.
- Hulcr, J., D.F. Gomez, J. Skelton, A.J. Johnson, S. Adams, Y. Li, M.A. Jusino, M.E. Smith. 2021. Invasion of an inconspicuous ambrosia beetle and fungus may affect wood decay in Southeastern North America. Biological Invasions.
- Corrales, A., H. Xu, R. Garibay-Orijel, C. Alfonso-Corrado, G. Williams-Linera, C. Chu, C. Truong, M.A. Jusino, R. Clark-Tapia, J.W. Dalling, Y. Liu, and M.E. Smith. 2021. Fungal communities associated with roots of two closely related Juglandaceae species with a disjunct distribution in the tropics. Fungal Ecology.
- O'Rourke, D.R., N.A. Bokulich, M.A. Jusino, M.D. MacManes, J.T Foster. 2020. A total crapshoot? Evaluating bioinformatic decisions in animal diet metabarcoding analyses. Ecology and Evolution.
- Hulcr, J., I. Barnes, W. de Beer, T. Duong, R. Gazis-Seregina, A.J. Johnson, M.A. Jusino, M.T. Kasson, Y. Li, S. Lynch, C. Mayers, T. Musvuugwa, F. Roets, K. Seltmann, D. Six, D. Vanderpool, C. Villari. 2020. Bark beetle mycobiome: collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis. Symbiosis.
- Elliott, T.F., M.A. Jusino, J.M. Trappe, H. Lepp, G.A. Ballard, J.J. Bruhl, and K. Vernes. 2019. The ecological significance of symbiotic interactions between birds and fungi. Fungal Diversity.
- Skelton, J., A.J. Johnson, M.A. Jusino, C.C. Bateman, and J. Hulcr. 2019. A selective fungal transport organ (mycangium) maintains coarse phylogenetic congruence between fungus-farming ambrosia beetles and their symbionts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
- Loyd, A.L., B.S. Richter, M.A. Jusino, C. Truong, M.E. Smith, R.A. Blanchette, and J.A. Smith. 2018. Identifying the “mushroom of immortality”: assessing the Ganoderma species composition in commercial reishi products. Frontiers in Microbiology.
- Florida State Univeristy, B.S., Biology
- Virginia Tech, Ph. D., Biological Sciences
Last updated March 31, 2026