Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Jusino Lab
Led by Michelle Jusino · Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
What we study
The Jusino Lab studies how animals and fungi interact in forests, focusing on invasive species like the golden oyster mushroom. They use field surveys, molecular mycology, and a metabarcoding pipeline to understand these relationships.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Wet lab
- Bacteria & microbes
- Other insects
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)
Tracking its spread and ecological impact in managed forests.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- The impact of non-native ambrosia beetles on fungal community assembly in hardwood (angiosperm) trees: an experimental quantification using multi-marker metabarcoding
2026 · Fungal ecology
- Salt Life: Salinity Drives Ectomycorrhizal Community Structure in the Endangered Pine Rocklands
2025 · Molecular Ecology
Finds how salt affects fungi that help endangered Florida pines survive.
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- Invasive golden oyster mushrooms are disrupting native fungal communities as they spread throughout North America
2025 · Current Biology
- Think globally, barcode locally: nine years of macrofungi sampling reveals extensive biodiversity at the ordway-swisher biological station, a subtropical site in Florida
2025 · Fungal Biology
- Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Crocanthemum and Lechea (Cistaceae) in subtropical Florida sandhill habitats
2024 · Mycorrhiza
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