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School of Life Sciences

Dr Ryan Mushinski

Associate Professor

  Email: Ryan.Mushinski@warwick.ac.uk.

  Phone: 024 765 75050

Office: B131

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Research Clusters

Environment & Ecology

Plant & Agricultural Biosciences

Quantitative, Systems & Engineering Biology

Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding microbial controls over biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, with particular emphasis on nitrogen transformations and trace gas emissions. I investigate how microbial communities respond to environmental change, including land use transitions, climate variability, and management practices, and how these responses influence ecosystem functions. A central theme is linking molecular-scale microbial processes to ecosystem-scale fluxes of reactive nitrogen species, integrating microbial ecology with biogeochemistry and atmospheric chemistry. Current work examines novel mechanisms of soil nitrogen oxide production, including the role of reactive oxygen species in generating volatile nitrogen compounds, and explores microbial nutrient limitation dynamics in peatland ecosystems. I also investigate sustainable agricultural interventions, including nanocomposite fertilisers designed to reduce reactive nitrogen losses while maintaining crop productivity.

Technical Expertise

My research integrates molecular microbiology with ecosystem biogeochemistry, employing high-throughput sequencing (amplicon and metagenomic approaches) to characterise microbial community structure and functional potential. I specialise in measuring greenhouse gas fluxes (CO鈧�, N鈧侽, CH鈧�) and reactive nitrogen species (NO, NO鈧�, HONO) using chamber-based systems and trace gas analysers. Laboratory capabilities include culturing and molecular characterisation of soil microorganisms, quantifying microbial biomass and activity through enzyme assays and isotopic techniques, and analysing soil biogeochemical properties (carbon and nitrogen pools, reactive oxygen species, nutrient availability). I apply stable isotope approaches (15N, 13C) to trace element transformations and employ bioinformatics pipelines for taxonomic and functional profiling of environmental microbiomes. We employ these various techniques to gain mechanistic understanding of how microbial processes scale from genomes to ecosystems.
  • Associate Professor, University of 糖心TV, 2023-Current
  • Assistant Professor, University of 糖心TV, 2020-2023
  • USDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Biogeochemistry, Indiana University (USA), 2017-2020
  • PhD, Ecosystem Science, Texas A&M University (USA), 2013-2017

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