Goffinet Lab
| Phone: | 860 486-5290 |
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| E-mail: | bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu |
| Address: | Mailing: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 75 NorthEagleville road University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269-3043 Office: Storrs Campus Biology Pharmacy Bldg Room 300 Lab: rooms 312 & 316 |
The research interests in this lab
cross organismal lines with projects focusing on liverworts, hornworts, mosses or lichen-forming fungi and span the fields of floristics and phylogeography, systematics and phylogeny, genome evolution and developmental biology.
News
- Lab in the news in ChileThe daily newspaper “Prensa Austral” published out of Punta Arenas, Sub-Antarctic Chile, published an article in its Sunday science section entitled “The ancient plants of the Strait of Magellan: key pieces for investigating climate change”, referring to some of the inventories of the regional bryophyte and lichen flora we have contributed to. See: Prensa_AustralPosted on August 13, 2020
- Below your feet: new exhibit on mossesAn exhibit of nine high resolution images of mosses from New England and Chile, printed on 5 ft metal sheets is on display at Wilbur Cross, on the UCONN campus. The material was collected and photographed by Bernard Goffinet and Mark Smith using the Macropod technology. While the exhibit can be visited now, it will […]Posted on August 12, 2020
- New publication on lichensComplementing the study of the diversity of lichenized fungi of the Lobariaceae, is the study by Lindgren et al. exploring the patterns in the association in the two symbionts. Lindgren H., B. Moncada, R. Lücking, N. Magain, A. Simon, B. Goffinet, E. Sérusiaux, M.P. Nelsen, J. Mercado-Díaz, T. Widhelm & T. Lumbsch. 2020. Cophylogenetic patterns in […]Posted on July 31, 2020