Current Efforts
DOE - BER - Genomic Sciences research program (PI, w/ Clark U, JGI, and PNNL)
NSF - DEB Ecosystem Studies - FACE wood decomposition (co-PI, w/ Mich Tech, UGA, USFS)
NSF - RAPID DEB PopComm - Post-hurricane wood sampling in Puerto Rico (PI, w/ Clemson)
DOE - BER - Climate & Environmental Sciences Program (co-PI, w/ USFS, Mich Tech, UGA)
BioTechnology Institute (BTI) - Biomanufacturing Initiative (PI, w/ Jiwei Zhang postdoc)
DOE – PNNL/EMSL/JGI (PI & Co-PI) user facility grants Helium-ion microscopy and single-molecule FISH super resolution, etc.
DOE – BER, Microbial Systems Biology (PI, w/ US Forest Products Lab & PNNL)
Publications (2015-present)
Oliver, J.P. and Schilling, J.S.* (online first) Harnessing fungi to mitigate CH4 in natural and engineered systems: A mini-review. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Wu, B., Gaskell, J., Held, B., Toapanta, C., Vuong, T., Arendt, S., Lipzen, A., Zhang, J., Schilling, J.S., Master, E., Cullen, D., and Hibbett, D.S. (online first) Substrate-specific differential gene expression and RNA editing in the brown rot fungus Fomitopsis pinicola. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Presley, G.N., Panisko, E., Purvine, S.O. and Schilling, J.S.* (online first) Comparing the temporal process of wood metabolism among white and brown rot fungi by coupling secretomics with enzyme activities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Presley, G.N., Ndimba, B., and Schilling, J.S.* (2018) Brown rot-type fungal decomposition of sorghum bagasse: Variable success and mechanistic implications" International Journal of Microbiology 2018: 7 pages; Article ID 4961726.
Castaño, J., Zhang, J. and Schilling, J.S.* (2018) Evaluation of colorimetric assays for determination of H2O2 in planta during fungal decomposition. Journal of Microbiological Methods 145:10-13.
Cline, L. Schilling, J.S.*, Menke, J., Fleischauer, E., Kennedy, P.G. (2018) Ecological and functional effects of fungal endophytes on wood decomposition. Functional Ecology 32:181-191.
Presley, G.N., Zhang, J., Schilling, J.S.* (2018) A genomics-informed study of oxalate and cellulase regulation by brown rot wood-degrading fungi. Fungal Genetics & Biology 112:64-70.
Zhang, J. and Schilling, J.S.* (2017) Role of carbon source in the shift from oxidative to hydrolytic wood decomposition by Postia placenta. Fungal Genetics & Biology 106:1-8.
Rubenstein, M.A., Crowther, T.W. Maynard, D.S., Schilling, J.S., Bradford, M.A.* (2017) Decoupling direct and indirect effects of warming on decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 112: 110-116.
Presley, G. and Schilling, J.S.* (2017) Distinct growth and secretome strategies in two taxonomically-distinct brown rot fungi. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 83:7 11 e02987-16 (spotlight article).
Song, Z., Kennedy, P.G., Liew, F.J., Schilling, J.S.* (2017) Fungal endophytes as priority colonizers during wood decomposition. Functional Ecology 31:407-418.
Zhang, J., Presley, G.N., Hammel, K.E., Menke, J.R., Hu, D., Ryu, J.S., Orr, G., Schilling, J.S. (2016) Localizing gene regulation reveals a staggered wood decay mechanism for the brown rot fungus Postia placenta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 10968-10973.
Yang, H-S., Duncan, S.M., Schilling, J.S., Tze, W.T.Y. (2016) Hydroxyl availability in hardwood after dilute acid pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification. BioResources 11(3): 7490-7499.
Schilling, E.M., Waring, B.G., Schilling, J.S., Powers, J.S. (2016) Forest composition modifies effects of litter chemistry on decomposition in regenerating tropical dry forests. Oecologia 182: 287-297.
Oliver, J.P., Schilling, J.S. (2016) Applying trait-function relationships for microbial plant decomposition to predict media longevity in engineered bioreactors. Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology 100: 2843-2853.
Nguyen, N.H., Song, Z., Bates, S.T., Branco, S., Menke, J., Schilling, J.S., Kennedy, P.K. (2016) FunGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild. Fungal Ecology 20: 241-248.
Oliver, J.P., Janni, K.A., and Schilling, J.S. (2016) Bait and scrape: An approach for assessing biofilm microbial communities on organic media used for gas-phase biofiltration. Ecological Engineering 91: 50-57.
Oliver, J.P., Schilling, J.S. (2015) Applying trait-function relationships for microbial plant decomposition to predict media longevity in engineered bioreactors. Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology doi:10.1007/s00253-015-7134-8
Schilling, J.S., Ayers, A., Kaffenberger, J.T., and Powers, J.S. (2015) Influence of wood type on decomposer community succession and function in a dry tropical forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88: 58-68.
Gordan, S.P, Tseng, E., Salamov, A., Zhang, J., Meng, X., Zhao, Z, Kang, D., Underwood, J., Grigoriev, I.V., Figueroa, M., Schilling, J.S., Chen, F., Wang, Z. (2015) Widespread polycistronic transcripts in mushroom-forming fungi revealed by single-molecule long-read mRNA sequencing. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0132628. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132628
Song, Z., Sadowsky, M., Vail, A., and Schilling, J.S. (2015) Influence of inoculum potential on the competitive success of fungi colonizing wood. Microbial Ecology 69: 758-767.
Schilling, J.S., Kaffenberger, J.T., Liew, F.J., Song, Z. (2015) Signature wood modifications that reveal decomposer community history. PLoS ONE.
Kaffenberger, J.T. and Schilling, J.S. (2015) Comparing lignocellulose physiochemistry after decomposition by brown rot fungi with distinct evolutionary origins. Environmental Microbiology EMI-2014-0983.