Job Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Life Sciences
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Research Interests
In the Environmental Processes Laboratory at the University of Warwick we link environmental microbiomes to biogeochemical processes. Our research is important for understanding issues related to soil health, global change, and climate.
Please see our lab website for more details.
Biography
2020-Current: Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, Environmental Processes
2017-2020: USDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Biogeochemistry
2017: PhD, Texas A&M University, Biogeochemistry & Microbial Ecology
- 'Eagar, Andrew C., 'Mushinski, Ryan, 'Horning, Amber L., 'Smemo, Kurt A., 'Phillips, Richard P., 'Blackwood, Christopher B., 2022. 'Arbuscular mycorrhizal tree communities have greater soil fungal diversity and relative abundances of saprotrophs and pathogens than ectomycorrhizal tree communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88 (1)
- 'Lazar, Anna, 'Mushinski, Ryan, 'Bending, G. D., 2022. 'Landscape scale ecology of Tetracladium spp. fungal root endophytes. Environmental Microbiome, 17
- Mushinski, Ryan, Payne, Zachary C., Raff, Jonathan D., Craig, Matthew E., Pusede, Sally E, Rusch, Douglas B., White, Jeffrey R., Phillips, Richard P., 2021. Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests. Global Change Biology, 27 (5), pp. 1068-1082
- Beidler, Katilyn V., Phillips, Richard P., Andrews, Erin, Maillard, François, Mushinski, Ryan, Kennedy, Peter G., 2020. Substrate quality drives fungal necromass decay and decomposer community structure under contrasting vegetation types. Journal of Ecology, 108 (5), pp. 1845-1859
- Mushinski, Ryan, Gentry, Terry J., Boutton, Thomas W., 2019. Forest organic matter removal leads to long-term reductions in bacterial and fungal abundance. Applied Soil Ecology, 137, pp. 106-110
- Hyodo, Ayumi, Malghani, Saadatullah, Zhou, Yong, Mushinski, Ryan, Toyoda, Sakae, Yoshida, Naohiro, Boutton, Thomas W., West, Jason B., 2019. Biochar amendment suppresses N 2 O emissions but has no impact on 15 N site preference in an anaerobic soil. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33 (2), pp. 165-175
- Mushinski, Ryan, Phillips, Richard P., Payne, Zachary C., Abney, Rebecca B., Jo, Insu, Fei, Songlin, Pusede, Sally E., White, Jeffrey R., Rusch, Douglas B., Raff, Jonathan D., 2019. Microbial mechanisms and ecosystem flux estimation for aerobic NOy emissions from deciduous forest soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (6), pp. 2138-2145
- Mushinski, Ryan, Gentry, Terry J., Boutton, Thomas W., 2018. Organic matter removal associated with forest harvest leads to decade scale alterations in soil fungal communities and functional guilds. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 127, pp. 127-136
- Zhou, Yong, Mushinski, Ryan, Hyodo, Ayumi, Ben Wu, X., Boutton, Thomas W., 2018. Vegetation change alters soil profile d15N values at the landscape scale. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 119, pp. 110-120
- Mushinski, Ryan, Zhou, Yong, Gentry, Terry J., Boutton, Thomas W., 2018. Bacterial metataxonomic profile and putative functional behavior associated with C and N cycle processes remain altered for decades after forest harvest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 119, pp. 184-193
- Mushinski, Ryan, Gentry, Terry J., Dorosky, Robert J., Boutton, Thomas W., 2017. Forest harvest intensity and soil depth alter inorganic nitrogen pool sizes and ammonia oxidizer community composition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 112, pp. 216-227
- Mushinski, Ryan, Boutton, Thomas W., Scott, D. Andrew, 2017. Decadal-scale changes in forest soil carbon and nitrogen storage are influenced by organic matter removal during timber harvest. Journal of Geophysical Research : Biogeosciences, 122 (4), pp. 846-862
- Arias Ugarte, Renzo, Devarajan, Deepa, Mushinski, Ryan, Hudnall, Todd W., 2016. Antimony(v) cations for the selective catalytic transformation of aldehydes into symmetric ethers, a,ß-unsaturated aldehydes, and 1,3,5-trioxanes. Dalton Transactions, 45 (27), pp. 11150-11161
- Dorsey, Christopher L., Mushinski, Ryan, Hudnall, Todd W., 2014. Metal-free stabilization of monomeric antimony(I) : a carbene-supported stibinidene. Chemistry - A European Journal, 20 (29), pp. 8914-8917
- Johnson, Derek W., Yum, Jung Hwan, Hudnall, Todd W., Mushinski, Ryan, Bielawski, Christopher W., Roberts, John C., Wang, Wei-E, Banerjee, Sanjay K., Harris, H. Rusty, 2014. Characterization of ALD beryllium oxide as a potential high-k gate dielectric for low-leakage AlGaN/GaN MOSHEMTs. Journal of Electronic Materials, 43 (1), pp. 151-154
- Yum, J. H., Shin, H. S., Hill, R., Oh, J., Lee, H. D., Mushinski, Ryan, Hudnall, Todd W., Bielawski, C. W., Banerjee, S. K., Loh, W. Y., Wang, Wei-E., Kirsch, Paul, 2012. A study of capping layers for sulfur monolayer doping on III-V junctions. Applied Physics Letters, 101 (25)
- Mushinski, Ryan, Squires, Brian M., Sincerbox, Katherine A., Hudnall, Todd W., 2012. Amino-acrylamido carbenes : modulating carbene reactivity via decoration with an a,ß-unsaturated carbonyl moiety. Organometallics, 31 (13), pp. 4862-4870
Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
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Development of a non-reactive flux chamber system to measure reactive pollutant gases (The Royal Society Research Grants) | Royal Society | 31 Jan 2022 | 30 Jan 2023 |