Dr. Aušra Juškauskaitė

ORCiD iD: 0000-0002-7724-3241

Tel.: +370 626 89 291
E-mail: ausra.juskauskaite@lammc.lt
Address: Liepų St. 1, Girionys, LT-53101 Kaunas dist., Lithuania

Education           

2013–2017 PhD studies, Aleksandras Stulginskis University and Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LAMMC).

2010–2012 Master of Applied Ecology, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).

2006–2010 Bachelor of Applied Ecology, Lithuanian University of Agriculture (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).

Academic degree

2018 Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (Forestry, 04 A), dissertation “Dependence of phenotypic plasticity of forest tree species on genetic polymorphism”

Research fields

• Forest tree genetics and breeding 

• Studies of genotype-environment interactions and phenotypic plasticity in forest tree species 

• Invasive and non-native tree species

Position 

Since 2026 researcher at the Department of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Institute of Forestry, LAMMC

Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations

Since 2026, member of the Lithuanian Dendrological Society

Involvement in programmes and projects

• 2024–2027 Ministry of Environment project “Delineation of geographical transfer limits for the transferring of forest reproductive material of main forest tree species growing in Lithuania from other European Union and OECD countries, considering environmental conditions and climate change projections”, participant.
• 2024–2025 Ministry of Environment project “Recovery assessment of the sessile oak in the Trakas forest sessile oak genetic reserve”, participant.
• 2022–2025 Ministry of Environment project “Study of the origin and genetic diversity of sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) spreading spontaneously in the forests of Lithuania and the application of breeding measures”, participant.
• 2021–2025 Programme Horizon 2020 project “Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils” (HoliSoils), participant.
• 2021–2022 Ministry of Environment project “Identification of high breeding-value and diverse Lithuanian pedunculate oak haplotypes using DNA markers”, participant.
• 2020–2023 Project “Conservation measures for pedunculate oak, sessile oak and Wych elm gene pool”, participant.
• 2020–2022 Project “Preparation of aspen seed plantation project by identifying the sex of aspen plus trees and establishing the most optimal scheme for crossbreeding”, participant.
• 2020–2022 Ministry of Environment project „Identification of black alder and grey alder F1 generation hybrids and preparation of forest propagating material for field trials”, participant.

• 2020–2022 Ministry of Environment project „Selection-genetic evaluation of Scots pine and Norway spruce experimental plantations and selection of superior genotypes for controlled crossings according to three breeding directions“, participant. 

• 2020–2021 Project “The first stage of Scots pine intensive breeding (breeding cycle III), based on crossings and progeny testing – selection of genotypes in the field trials, grafting, cultivation of clones, preparation of project for crossings and crossing methodology”, participant.
• 2019–2021 Project “Preparation of genetic monitoring methodology for Scots pine, Norway spruce, pedunculate oak, and silver birch”, participant.
• 2018–2020 Ministry of Environment project „Adjustment of the provenance regions of black alder, small-leaved lime and Norway maple based on DNA markers”, participant.
• 2016–2018 Ministry of Environment project “Dependence of wood properties of Norway spruce and silver birch on growing conditions and genotype”, participant.

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