Click below to download my CV!!
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2019 – current
Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board member Oregon Health Authority 2021 – current
Postdoctoral Scholar (Population Genomics) UCSF/UC Berkeley 2017 – 2019
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Genetics & Genomics) Duke University 2017
M.Sc. (Mycology) Humboldt State University 2012
B.S. (Botany) Humboldt State University 2010
PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2024
1) Coleman M, Berch S, Bonito G, Allen B, Andrews E, Carvajal E, Cook S, D’Amours C, Garibay-Orijel R, Guevara G, Hatzenbuehler P, Hawkins B, Heinse R, Kernaghan G, Lefevre C, Lemmond B, Meadows, Oneto S, Sharma J, Strawn D, Türkoğlu A,Tanney J, Uehling J, Winfree J, Smith M. Status of Truffle Science and Cultivation in North America. Pland and Soil. In Review.
2) Carpenter S, Bogdanove A, Stajich J, Uehling J, Lovett B, Kasson M, Carter M. Prevalence and diversity of TAL effector-like proteins in fungal endosymbiotic Mycetohabitans mSystems. In Review.
2023
3) Amses K, Desiró A, Bryson A, Grigoriev I, Mondo S, Lipzen A, LaButti K, Singan V, Salazar-Hamm P, King J, Ballou E, Pawlowska T, Adeleke R, Bonito G, Uehling J. Convergent reductive evolution and host adaptation in Mycoavidus bacterial endosymbionts of Mortierellaceae fungi. Fungal Genetics and Biology doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2023.103838
4) J Uehling, A Salvioli, K Amses, L. Partida-Martínez, G Bonito, P Bonfante. Bacterial endosymbionts of Mucoromycota fungi: Diversity and function of their interactions. Book Chapter in The Mycota
5) Porter D, Uehling J, Naleway S. A review of the material and mechanical properties of select Ganoderma fungi structures as a source for bioinspiration. Journal of Materials Science. Journal of Materials Science doi: 10.1007/s10853-023-08214-y
6) X Li, J Munoz, L Gade, S Argimon, M Bougnoux, J Bowers, N Chow, I Cuesta, R Farrer, C Maufrais, J Monroy-Nieto, D Pradhan, J Uehling, D Vu, C Yeats, D Aanesen, C D’Enfert, D Eyre, M Fisher, W Meyer, R Farrer, F Hagen, W Meyer, G Singh, A Alastruey-Izquirdo, A N Chow, A Litvintseva, C Cuomo. Comparing genomic variant identification protocols for fungi. Microbial Genomics. Microbiology Society doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000979
7) Leon**, J Uehling, E Ballou. Microbe of the Month: Rhizopus delemar. Invited for PloS Pathogen Pearls doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.03.013
2022
8) RC Van Court, MS Wiseman, KW Meyer, DJ Ballhorn, K Amses, JC Slot, B Dentinger, R Garibay-Orijel, JK Uehling. Diversity, biology and history of psilocybin containing fungi: Suggestions for research and technological development.Fungal Biology doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2022.01.003 (Open access)
2021
9) M Gorris, M Van Dyke, A Carey, P Hamm, H Mead, Uehling J. A Review of Coccidioides Research, Outstanding Questions in the Field, and Contributions by Women Scientists. Current Clinical Microbiology Reports (open access)
10) Abbas A, Jeanne T, Knox R, Korthuis P, Hamade A, Christopher S Uehling J. Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board Rapid Evidence Review and Recommendations; Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board
2019
11) Uehling JK, Entler MR, Meredith HR, Millet LJ, Timm CM, Aufrecht JA, Bonito GM, Engle NL, Labbé JL, Doktycz MJ, Retterer ST, Spatafora JW, Stajich JE, Tschaplinski TJ,Vilgalys RJ. 2019. Microfluidics and Metabolomics Reveal Symbiotic Bacterial–Fungal Interactions Between Mortierella elongata and Burkholderia Include Metabolite Exchange. Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02163 PDF
12) Millet L , Aufrecht J, Labbé J, Uehling J , Vande Pol N , Kremer J , Rhodes D , Estes M , Guennoc C , Deveau A, Olsson S, Bonito G, Vilgalys R, Doktycz M, Retterer S. 2017. Microfluidics: Windows into the biology of branching structures. Fungal Biology and Biotechnology doi:10.1186/s40694-019-0071-z PDF
13) Varga T, Krizsan K, Foldi C, Dima B, Sanchez-Garcia M, Sanchez-Ramirez S, Szollosi G, Szarkandi G, Papp V, Albert L, Angelini C, Antonín V, Bougher N, Buchanan P, Buyck B, Bense V, Catcheside P, Cooper J, Dämon W, Desjardin D, Finy P, Geml J, Hughes K, Alfredo F, Justo A, Karasiński D, Kautmanova I, Kerr S, Kiss B, Kocsubé S, Kotiranta H, Lechner B, Liimatainen K, Lukacs Z, Morgado L, Niskanen T, Noordeloos M, Beatriz Ortiz-Santana B, Ovrebo C, Rácz N, Savchenko A, Shiryaev A, Soop K, Spirin V, Szebenyi , Tomsovsky M, Tulloss R, Uehling J, Vagvolgyi C, Papp T, Martin F, Miettinen O, Hibbett D, Nagy L. 2018. Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom diversification. Nature Ecology and Evolution doi:10.5061/dryad.gc2k9r PDF
2018
14) Lofgren L, Uehling J, Sara Branco S, Tom D. Bruns T, Martin F, Peter G. Kennedy P. 2018. Genome-based estimates of fungal rDNA copy number variation across phylogenetic scales and ecological lifestyles. Molecular Ecology doi:10.1111/mec.14995 PDF
15) Misztal P, Lymperopoulou D, Adams R, Scott R, Lindow S, Bruns T, Taylor J, Uehling J, Bonito G, Vilgalys R, and Goldstein A . 2017. What controls the variance in microbial volatile organic compound (mVOC) emissions from different bacteria and fungi? Chemical Biology doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b00806 PDF
16) Deveau A, Bonito G, Millet L, Bindschedler S, Uehling J, Becker M, Hacquard S, Hervé, V, Lastovetsky O, Mieszkin S, Vajna B, Paoletti M, Bonfante P, van Elsas JD. 2017. Bacterial – Fungal Interactions: impacts, mechanisms and challenges. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuy008. FEMS Microbiology Reviews doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuy008 PDF
2017
17) Uehling J, Deveau A, Paoletti M. 2017. Do fungi have an innate immune response? An NLR-based comparison to plant and animal immune systems. PLoS Pathogens Pearls. PLoS Pathogens Pearls doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006578 PDF
18) Uehling J, Gryganskyi A, Hameed K, Tschaplinski T, Misztal PK, Wu S, Desirò A, Vande Pol N, Du Z, Zienkiewicz A, Zienkiewicz K, Morin E, Tisserant E, Splivallo R, Hainaut M, Henrissat B, Ohm R, Kuo A, Yan J, Lipzen A, Nolan M, LaButti K, Barry K, Goldstein AH, Labbé J, Schadt C, Tuskan G, Grigoriev I, Martin F, Vilgalys R, Bonito G. Comparative genomics of Mortierella elongata and its bacterial endosymbiont Mycoavidus cysteinexigens. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13669. PDF
2016
19) Li Z, Yao Q, Dearth S, Entler M, Castro Gonzalez M, Uehling J, Vilgalys R, Hurst G, Campagna S, Labbé J, Pan C. 2016. Integrated Proteomics and Metabolomics Reveal Symbiotic Metabolism and Multimodal Regulation in a Fungal-Endobacterial System. Environmental Microbiology. 19(3):1041-1053. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13605. PDF
20) Spatafora J, Benny G, Lazarus K, Smith M, Berbee M, Bonito G, Corradi N, Gryganskyi A, James T, Taylor T, Uehling J, Vilgalys R, White M, Stajich J. 2016. A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data. Mycologia. (108)5:1028-1046. doi: 10.3852/16-042. PDF
21) Henkel TW, Obase, K, Husbands D, Uehling J, Bonito G, Aime MC, Smith ME. 2016. New Boletaceae taxa from Guyana: Binderoboletus segoi gen. et sp. nov., Guyanaporus albipodus gen. et sp. nov., Singerocomus rubriflavus gen. et sp. nov., and a new combination for Xerocomus inundabilis. Mycologia, (108)1:158-173) doi: 10.3852/15-075. PDF
2015
22) Grupe AC, Baker AD, Uehling JK, Smith ME, Baroni TJ, Lodge DJ, Henkel TW. 2015. Sarcodon in the Neotropics I: new species from Guyana, Puerto Rico and Belize. Mycologia 107.3 (2015): 591-606., doi:10.3852/14-185. PDF
2014
23) Labbé J, Uehling J, Payer T, Plett J 2014. Fungal biology: compiling genomes and exploiting them. New Phytologist. 203(2):359-361. doi: 10.1111/nph.12891. PDF
24) Henkel TW, Wilson AW, Aime MC, Dierks J, Uehling J, Roy M, Schimann H, Wartchow F, Mueller GM. 2014. Cantharellaceae of Guyana II. New species of Craterellus, new South American distribution records for Cantharellus guyanensis and Craterellus excelsus, and a key to the Neotropical taxa. Mycologia. 106: 307-322. doi: 10.3852/106.2.307. PDF
2013
25) Smith ME, Henkel TW, Uehling JK, Fremier AK, Clarke HD,R Vilgalys R. 2013. The ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a Neotropical forest dominated by the endemic dipterocarp Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea. PLoS one 8.1 (2013): doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055160. PDF
2012
26) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Aime MC, Smith ME. 2012c. New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield, with a key to the lowland neotropical taxa. Fungal Biology. 116(12): 1203-1274. doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2012.09.004. PDF
27) Kennedy P, Matheny B, Ryberg M, Henkel T, Uehling J, Smith M. 2012b. Scaling up: examining the macroecology of ectomycorrhizal Fungi. Molecular Ecology. 21:4151–4154. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05703.x PDF
28) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Vilgalys R, Smith ME. 2012a. Membranomyces species are common ectomycorrhizal symbionts in North temperate forests. Mycorrhiza. 22(7):577-81. doi: 10.1007/s00572-012-0457-8. PDF
2011
29) Hodkinson BP, Uehling JK, Smith ME. Lepidostroma vilgalysii, a new basidiolichen from the New World with an inverted thallus. 2011b. Mycological Progress. 11(3): 827-833. doi:10.1007/s11557-011-0800-z. PDF
30) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Aime MC, Vilgalys R, Smith ME. 2011b. New species of Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with resupinate and effused basidiomata from the Guiana Shield. Mycologia 104:547-556. doi: 10.3852/11-130. PDF
31) Henkel TW, Aime MC, Uehling JK, Smith ME. 2011a. New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield. Mycologia 103(4):883-889. doi: 10.3852/10-355. PDF
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS & FUNDING
2023
United States Department of Agricultural; ‘Expanding LINbase for genome-based identification resource for fungal pathogen surveillance’ co-PIs Boris Vinatzer, Niklaus Grunwald ($325,000)
Stuntz Foundation individual grant ‘Piecing together the puzzle: Efforts towards biogeographical and phylogenetic mapping of Ganoderma oregonense in the Pacific Northwest” ($2,000) co-PIs Brenna Privelege
2022
Stuntz Foundation institutional grant ‘Creating mycological educational materials for K-3 classrooms for multimodal learning via digital resource and in-person module development’ Salazar-Hamm P, Uehling J ($4,000)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user facility grant ‘Leveraging microfluidics for high resolution microscopic insights into fungal endosymbiont interactions and mating biology’ Mondron K, Partida-Martinez L, Cabrera-Rangel J, Guo Y, Retterer S, Uehling J
National Science Foundation, Dear Colleague BBSRC-NSF Microbes & the host immune system: ‘Microbial predation as a driver of endosymbiosis and phagocyte evasion’ co-Principal investigator with Drs. Liz Ballou (Exeter) and Jason King (Sheffield) ($591,459)
2021
Oregon State Univerity IGNITE Program: ‘A trans-disciplinary big data Extension and research center’ Co-Investigator with N Grunwald, J LeBoldus, J Uehling, T Levi, R Hutchinson, K Vining, M David, J Walte-Cusic, J. Kovacevic, D Mollov, J Chang ($50,000)
Portland Garden Club small grant award: ‘Phylogenetics and phytochemistry of Ganoderma species in Lewis & Clark National Historical Park Co-Investigator with K Syring, K Daffron ($2,500)
2020
United States Forest Service, ‘Oregon State University herbarium fungal curation’ Principal investigator, ($11,000)
Biodiversity Research Collective, Fungal Herbarium Improvement grant, Principal Investigator ($10,000)
National Science Foundation, Dimensions of Biodiversity (DoB): ‘Dimensions US-South Africa: Unravelling the influence of endosymbiotic bacteria on the biodiversity of Mucoromycota fungi’ co-Principal investigator with Dr. Teresa Pawlowska, Cornell University and Rasheed Adelke, North West University, Potchefstroom campus, South Africa ($1,999,458)
National Science Foundation, Thematic Collections Network (TCN):Digitization TCN: ‘Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities’ lead Jessica Budke, University of Tennessee Knoxville ($609,365)
Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute Community Sequencing Program; ‘Large Structural Variant discovery in the poplar GWAS population to further unlock the heritability of yield and sustainability’, collaborator, lead Daniel Jacobson, DOE ORNL (service trade)
2019
Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute Community Sequencing Program; Evaluating the role of endosymbionts in fungal mating and evolution
2018
MSA Special Topics award; computational infrastructure for Coccidioides population genomics
International Mycological Congress Travel Award
2017
NASA Astrobiology Science Conference Student Travel Award
2016
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions Student Travel Award
North American Mycological Association Student Travel Award
2015
Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory Go! Graduate fellowship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user facility “Microfluidic environmental control platforms for chemical and transcriptomic analysis of fungal-bacterial interactions” Vilgalys R, Uehling J, Millet L, Labbe J, Doktycz M.
2014
Seed Grant from Department of Energy Biosciences Division “Filamentous fungi for biodiesel production using lignocellulosic residuals “ Co-PI Jessy Labbé, Collaborators Wellington Muchero, Timothy Tschaplinski and Rytas Vilgalys.
Duke University Graduate School International Travel Award
Mycological Society of America Backus Award
2013
European Conference for Fungal Genetics student travel grant
Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network research dissemination grant
Duke University Genetics & Genomics summer training travel grant
2012
California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology travel grant
McConkey Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Alistair McCrone Graduate Fellowship Award, Gregory Mark Jennings Research Dissemination grant, Humboldt State University
Humboldt Bay Mycology Society George Verback Memorial Scholarship
2011
Friends of the Farlow Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Harvard University
Sonoma County Mycological Society Outstanding Graduate Research Scholarship
2010
Cascade Mycological Society Promising Graduate Student Research Grant
Institute for Tropical Ecology & Conservation Sarah Glanzer Memorial Fellowship
Jessie Uehling, PhD 