• orthotrichum crassifolium

News

  • New publication on mosses
    Dirick L., Y. Liu, S. Dong, J. Yu, L. Ouerdane, C. Curie & B. Goffinet. Independent horizontal microbial gene transfers with replacement in plants. 2025. Nature Communications 16: 8339. pdf Abstract reads: The evolution of land plants is marked by major innovations enhancing their vegetative and reproductive fitness. Despite their extensive adaptations to terrestrial habitats, […]
    Posted on September 22, 2025
  • New publication on bryophytes
    Dong S., S. Wang, L. Li, J. Yu, Y. Zhang, J.-Y. Xue, H. Chen, J. Ma, Y. Zeng, Y. Cai, W. Huang, J. Li, Y. Yao, R. Hu, T. Zhao, J.C. Villarreal A., L. Dirick, L. Liu, M. Ignatov, J. Ruan, Y. He, H. Wang, B. Xu, J. Wegrzyn, D. W. Stevenson, K. S. Renzaglia, […]
    Posted on September 22, 2025
  • Sullivant award for best paper in the Bryologist
    The American Bryological and Lichenological Society announced the awards for the best papers published in The Bryologist in 2024 (Volume 127) and awarded the SULLIVANT AWARD (for the best bryological paper) to our checklist: Buck W.R. & B. Goffinet. 2024. A new checklist of the mosses of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist […]
    Posted on September 15, 2025
  • New publication on mosses
    Atwood, J., WR. Buck & B. Goffinet. 2025. Bryomyces, a genus described from foliar moss gemmae, is an earlier name for Plenogemma (Orthotrichaceae). Novon 33: 115–121. Abstract reads: Bryomyces Miq. and Phragmidiolum Müll. Hal., originally described as genera of endophytic bryophilous ascomycetes, refer instead to foliar moss gemmae based on a comparative assessment of their […]
    Posted on September 11, 2025
  • New publication on bryophytes
    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. […]
    Posted on August 17, 2025

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. See Google Scholar site.

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Goffinet Lab

Phone: 860 486-5290
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

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