Michael A. Castellano M.D. Assistant Professor Department: Department of Neurology Business Phone: (904) 244-9092 Business Email: michael.castellano@jax.ufl.edu Appointments and Locations Clinical Profile Specialties Neurocritical CareNeurology Show More Publications 2021Eight new Elaphomyces species (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from eastern North America.Fungal systematics and evolution.7():113-131[DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2021.07.06.[PMID] 34124620.PubMed·Publisher's Site2021Greetings from belowground: two new species of truffles in the genus Pachyphlodes (Pezizaceae, Pezizales) from México.MycoKeys.82():159-171[DOI] 10.3897/mycokeys.82.67685.[PMID] 34475801.PubMed·Publisher's Site2021Hysterangiales revisited: expanded phylogeny reveals new genera and two new suborders.Fungal systematics and evolution.8():65-80[DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2021.08.06.[PMID] 35005573.1 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2021Three independent evolutionary events of sequestrate Lactifluus species in Australasia.Fungal systematics and evolution.8():9-25[DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2021.08.02.[PMID] 35005569.1 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2019The Cedrus-associated truffle Trappeindia himalayensis is a morphologically unique and phylogenetically divergent species of Rhizopogon.Mycologia.111(2):225-234[DOI] 10.1080/00275514.2018.1542864.[PMID] 30753119.2 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Balsamia (Sequestrate Helvellaceae, Ascomycota) in western North America.Fungal systematics and evolution.2():11-36[DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2018.02.02.[PMID] 32467885.3 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa.IMA fungus.9(1):167-175[DOI] 10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.01.10.[PMID] 30018877.18 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Description and distribution of Tuberincognitum sp. nov. and Tuberanniae in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt.MycoKeys.(41):17-27[DOI] 10.3897/mycokeys.41.28130.[PMID] 30344441.5 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Hymenogaster macmurphyi and Splanchnomyces behrii are sequestrate species of Xerocomellus from the western United States.Mycologia.110(3):605-617[DOI] 10.1080/00275514.2018.1465299.[PMID] 29993332.3 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Three new black Elaphomyces species (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from eastern North America with notes on selected European species.Fungal systematics and evolution.1():1-12[DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2018.01.01.[PMID] 32518896.2 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2018Tuber aztecorum sp. nov., a truffle species from Mexico belonging to the Maculatum clade (Tuberaceae, Pezizales).MycoKeys.(30):61-72[DOI] 10.3897/mycokeys.30.22887.[PMID] 29681733.4 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2017Elaphomyces species (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales) from Bartlett Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA.IMA fungus.8(1):49-63[DOI] 10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.01.04.[PMID] 28824839.8 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2016Kombocles bakaiana gen. sp. nov. (Boletaceae), a new sequestrate fungus from Cameroon.IMA fungus.7(2):239-245[DOI] .[PMID] 27990330.10 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2016New species of Elaphomyces (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from tropical rainforests of Cameroon and Guyana.IMA fungus.7(1):59-73[DOI] 10.5598/imafungus.2016.07.01.05.[PMID] 27433441.13 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2016Two new Aroramyces species (Hysterangiaceae, Hysterangiales) from México.IMA fungus.7(2):235-238[DOI] .[PMID] 27990329.1 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2015Cryptic diversity in the sequestrate genus Stephanospora (Stephanosporaceae: Agaricales) in Australasia.Fungal biology.119(4):201-28[DOI] 10.1016/j.funbio.2014.12.007.[PMID] 25813509.8 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2013Australasian sequestrate fungi 18: Solioccasus polychromus gen. & sp. nov., a richly colored, tropical to subtropical, hypogeous fungus.Mycologia.105(4):888-95[DOI] 10.3852/12-046.[PMID] 23709482.18 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2013The enigmatic truffle Fevansia aurantiaca is an ectomycorrhizal member of the Albatrellus lineage.Mycorrhiza.23(8):663-8[DOI] 10.1007/s00572-013-0502-2.[PMID] 23666521.2 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2012Cryptolepiota, a new sequestrate genus in the Agaricaceae with evidence for adaptive radiation in western North America.Mycologia.104(1):164-74[DOI] 10.3852/11-046.[PMID] 21828217.2 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2012New Elaphomyces species (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from Guyana.Mycologia.104(5):1244-9[DOI] 10.3852/12-061.[PMID] 22505430.10 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2008Biogeography of Hysterangiales (Phallomycetidae, Basidiomycota).Mycological research.112(Pt 4):448-62[DOI] 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.06.004.[PMID] 18314317.53 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2006Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with an establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders.Mycologia.98(6):949-59[DOI] .[PMID] 17486971.57 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2005Morphological and molecular characterization of selected Ramaria mycorrhizae.Mycorrhiza.15(1):55-9[DOI] .[PMID] 14745631.6 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2004Fire-related changes in biomass of hypogeous sporocarps at foraging points used by a tropical mycophagous marsupial.Mycological research.108(Pt 12):1438-46[DOI] .[PMID] 15757180.7 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2002Type studies of sequestrate Russulales II. Australian and New Zealand species related to Russula.Mycologia.94(2):327-54[DOI] .[PMID] 21156504.6 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site2001Multiple origins of sequestrate fungi related to Cortinarius (Cortinariaceae).American journal of botany.88(12):2168-79[DOI] .[PMID] 21669649.93 citations·PubMed·Publisher's Site Show More Office Information Academic Office Tower 1, 9th Floor580 West 8th Street, T17Jacksonville, FL 32209(904) 244-9092 michael.castellano@jax.ufl.edu Administrative Manager Camberlee Evers(904) 244-9092Camberlee.evers@jax.ufl.edu Show More Education Medical Degree2014 · St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, West IndiesNeurology Residency2019 · Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX, USANeurocritical Care Fellowship2021 · University of Florida Neuromedicine Hospital, Gainesville, FL, USA Show More