Goffinet Lab
| Phone: | 860 486-5290 |
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| E-mail: | bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu |
| Address: | Storrs Campus Biology Pharmacy Bldg Office: 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 mosses: bye bye PhyscoThe evo-devo model species Physcomitrella patens has a new name! Medina, R., M. G. Johnson, Y. Liu, N.J. Wickett, A.J. Shaw & B. Goffinet. 2019. Phylogenomic delineation of Physcomitrium (Bryophyta: Funariaceae) based on nuclear targeted exons and their flanking regions rejects the retention of Physcomitrella, Physcomitridium and Aphanorrhegma. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 404–417. pdf Abstract reads: […]Posted on August 10, 2019
- New publication on lichensWidhelm T.J., F. Grewe, J. P. Huang, J. Mercado, B. Goffinet, R. Lücking, I. Schmitt, B. Moncada, R. Mason-Gamer & H. T. Lumbsch. 2019. Multiple historical processes obscure phylogenetic relationships in a taxonomically difficult group (Lobariaceae, Ascomycota). Scientific Reports 9: 8968. pdf Abstract reads: In the age of next-generation sequencing, the number of loci available for […]Posted on June 20, 2019
- Lichens in NEWSTIMESRaising awareness of lichens in CT: Robert Miller: Finding intricacy in the commonplace lichenPosted on April 15, 2019