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
- New publication on lichensFrye H.A., Z. Muscavitch & B. Goffinet. 2021. Discovery of epiphytic lichens in Connecticut suggests novel introduction and reintroduction via horticultural practices. The Bryologist 124: 191–197. pdf Abstract reads: The discovery of Teloschistes chrysophthalmus in Connecticut more than one hundred years since its last known occurrence is argued to result from human introduction. The species only […]Posted on April 15, 2021
- Congratulations to Zach on NEAS & ASPT awardsDOUBLE congratulations to Zach Muscavitch, co-advised by Drs. Louise Lewis and B. Goffinet for his recent grant of $500 from the Northeast Algal Society to explore the hidden diversity of the green algal genus Trebouxia lichenized with fungi of the Ramalinaceae, AND of $1,200 from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists to explore specificity in the association […]Posted on April 11, 2021
- New publication on liverwort organellar genomesDong S., S. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Wu, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu. 2021. Plastid genomes and phylogenomics of the early land plant liverworts (Marchantiophyta): conserved genome structure and highest plastid substitution rates among three genetic compartments. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 161: 107171. pdf Google Scholar. Highlights We newly generated 42 complete liverwort plastomes spreading 13 […]Posted on April 5, 2021