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  • New bryological contribution
    Goffinet, B. 2024. Reporting Rutenbergia madagassa Geheeb & Hampe new to the Comoros. In Ellis L.T., O.M. Afonina, M. Alataş, H.B. M. Alia, J. Alvarez, A.M. Aponte Rojas, J.J. Atwood, G. Bacilliere, N. Batan, V. Biberdžić, M.A. Bruggeman-Nannenga, L.V. Campos, M.J. Cano, L.F. Coca, I.V. Czernyadjeva, S. de Faria Lopes, Q. Dejonghe, S. Dragićević, H. […]
    Posted on July 14, 2024
  • New publication on bryophytes
    Vuruputoor V.S., A. Starovoitov, Y. Cai, Y. Liu, N. Rahmatpour, T. Hedderson, N. Wilding, J.L. Wegrzyn & B. Goffinet. Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14(7): jkae104. pdf  Google Scholar Abstract reads:  The first chromosome-scale reference genome of the rare […]
    Posted on July 8, 2024
  • Congratulation to Zach for an EECG Research Award
    Zach has received a 2024 Evolutionary, Ecological, and Conservation Genomics (EECG) Research Award ($6,000) from the American Genetics Association for his project “Unveiling the mysteries of fog lichens: Phylogenomic insights into the phenotypic diversity of a niche-specific radiation. Congratulations!
    Posted on March 15, 2024
  • Congratulations to Crystal awarded a SURF 2024
    Crystal (Zhu) was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the UConn Office of Undergraduate Research for her project “More than meets the eye: Unveiling the diversity of lichen-forming fungal species in Chile using DNA barcoding”.  The project focuses on Lobarioideae (Peltigerales) and primarily the genus Pseudocyphellaria. The award consists of a stipend and funds […]
    Posted on March 8, 2024
  • New publication on mosses
    Zhang L., Q. Zuo, W.Z. Ma, J. Shevock, N. Patel, M. Johnson, R. Medina, N. Wilding & B. Goffinet. 2023. Phylogenomics resolves the rediscovered Himalayan endemic Brachymeniopsis gymnostoma (Bryophyta, Funariaceae), as a species of Entosthodon, prompting also the transfer of Clavitheca poeltii. Taxon 72: 1216–1227. pdf  Google Scholar Abstract reads: Traits of the spore-bearing generation […]
    Posted on December 4, 2023

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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