Michael A Castellano

Michael A Castellano, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Department: Neurology – Jacksonville
Business Phone: (352) 273-5550

About Michael A Castellano

Michael Castellano, M.D., is a University of Florida assistant professor of neurology and a neurologist at the UF Health Neuroscience Institute in Jacksonville specializing in neurocritical care.

Dr. Castellano received his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He completed residency training in neurology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, as well as a fellowship in neurocritical care at the University of Florida Neuromedicine Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Neurology
Subspecialties
  • Neurocritical Care

Publications

2021
Eight 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.
2021
Greetings 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.
2021
Hysterangiales 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.
2021
Three 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.
2019
The 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.
2018
Balsamia (Sequestrate Helvellaceae, Ascomycota) in western North America.
Fungal systematics and evolution. 2:11-36 [DOI] 10.3114/fuse.2018.02.02. [PMID] 32467885.
2018
Considerations 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.
2018
Description 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.
2018
Hymenogaster 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.
2018
Three 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.
2018
Tuber 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.
2017
Elaphomyces 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.
2016
Kombocles bakaiana gen. sp. nov. (Boletaceae), a new sequestrate fungus from Cameroon.
IMA fungus. 7(2):239-245 [PMID] 27990330.
2016
New 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.
2016
Two new Aroramyces species (Hysterangiaceae, Hysterangiales) from México.
IMA fungus. 7(2):235-238 [PMID] 27990329.
2015
Cryptic 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.
2013
Australasian 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.
2013
The 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.
2012
Cryptolepiota, 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.
2012
New Elaphomyces species (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from Guyana.
Mycologia. 104(5):1244-9 [DOI] 10.3852/12-061. [PMID] 22505430.
2008
Biogeography of Hysterangiales (Phallomycetidae, Basidiomycota).
Mycological research. 112(Pt 4):448-62 [DOI] 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.06.004. [PMID] 18314317.
2006
Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with an establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders.
Mycologia. 98(6):949-59 [PMID] 17486971.
2005
Morphological and molecular characterization of selected Ramaria mycorrhizae.
Mycorrhiza. 15(1):55-9 [PMID] 14745631.
2004
Fire-related changes in biomass of hypogeous sporocarps at foraging points used by a tropical mycophagous marsupial.
Mycological research. 108(Pt 12):1438-46 [PMID] 15757180.
2002
Type studies of sequestrate Russulales II. Australian and New Zealand species related to Russula.
Mycologia. 94(2):327-54 [PMID] 21156504.
2001
Multiple origins of sequestrate fungi related to Cortinarius (Cortinariaceae).
American journal of botany. 88(12):2168-79 [PMID] 21669649.

Education

Neurocritical Care Fellowship
2021 · University of Florida
Neurology Residency
2019 · Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Doctor of Medicine
2014 · St. George's University School of Medicine

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