News
- New publication on mossesDirick 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 bryophytesDong 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 BryologistThe 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 mossesAtwood, 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 bryophytesMilis 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.
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 |