Milis A., P. Mäder, M. De Haan, P. Ballings, I. Van Der Beeten, B. Goffinet & A. Vanderpoorten. 2025. Time to spice-up paleoecological records with bryophyte spores. Trends in Plant Sciences in press Abstract reads: Paleovegetation reconstructions rely virtually exclusively on inferences from vascular plants, particularly pollen grains, ignoring other components of the land flora. […]

Finally, the study first completed by Nasim Rahmatpour for her Ph.D. and then picked up by former postdoc Niki Patel and current Ph.D. student Vidya Vuruputoor is now published in the New Phytologist! Amazing study highlighting the “Immediate premeiotic transcriptomic effects following nonchemically induced whole genome duplication in the moss Funaria hygrometrica” pdf  Congratulations to […]

Brenden Thomson earned his MSc degree having completed his thesis on the phylogenetic diversity of Physcomitrium (Bryopsida) win North America. Well done and congratulations.

Crystal Zhu, graduated this weekend, with honors and as UConn Scholar. She earned the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History Award for outstanding scholarship and original research concentrating on the natural history, behavior, or overall biology of a focal organism for her honors’ thesis “Unveiling and Illustrating the Diversity of Lichen-Forming Fungal Species in Chile”. […]

Goffinet, B. & T. Pócs. 2025. Reporting Rhachithecium perpusillum H. Rob. new to Uganda. In Ellis M. Alataş, Sk. N. Ali, D. J. Alvarez, A. M. Aponte Rojas e, J. J. Atwood f, N. Batan g, H. Bednarek-Ochyra, M. J. Cano, Ž. L. Cimerman, T. Colotti, M. J. F. Costa, E. Enkhjargal, H. Erata, P. […]