Dr. Bernard Goffinet

Bryophyte and lichen systematics, with an emphasis on the evolution of the Orthotrichaceae, Splachnaceae and Funariaceae (Bryophyta) and the Peltigerales (lichenized Ascomycota).

Contact:

75 North Eagleville Road
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
USA

Phone: (860) 486-5290

email: bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu

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Post Docs

Dr. Laura L. Forrest

Liverwort phylogeny and barcoding, particularly for thalloid genera. Unravelling Aneura pinguis from its segregate species.

Laura is working on the 'Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life' project.

Contact:

75 North Eagleville Road
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
USA

Phone: (860) 486-6306

email: laura.forrest@uconn.edu

Dr. Yang Liu

Bryophyte phylogeny, Mitochondrial genome evolution, Molecular evolutionary rate.

Yang is working on the evolution of reduction and retention in the moss family Funariaceae

Contact:

75 North Eagleville Road
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
USA

Phone: (860) 486-630

email: liuyang@ibcas.ac.cn, yang.liu@uconn.edu

 

Current Grad Students

Jessica Budke

Bryophytes (Mosses); Evolution; Systematics; Developmental Morphology; Anatomy. I am particularly interested in the development and morphological evolution of moss structures, such as the peristome teeth, stomata, calyptra and meristematic regions.

Contact:

75 North Eagleville Road
Storrs, CT 06269-3043
USA

Phone: (860) 486-6306

email: jessica.budke@uconn.edu

http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/jbudke/

Lily R. Lewis

Interests: Bryophytes, bryogeography, high latitude bryofloras (specifically Alaska and Cape Horn Chile), conservation, community education programs, biking, cooking, gardening, and fishing.

The past few years I’ve been working in wetlands delineation and botanical inventory in Alaska. Currently I am working with an innovative group in southern Chile to implement eco-tourism with a hand-lens in the Miniature Forests of Cape Horn.

email: lily.lewis@uconn.edu

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Juan Carlos Villarreal A.

Systematics, anatomy, ultrastructure, biogeography, molecular evolution of hornworts (Anthocerotophyta), especially Neotropical taxa. Population genetic of asexual hornwort taxa and evolution of sex in hornworts.

Other interests are the evolution of the hornwort chloroplast, especially the ultrastructural and physiological implications of the presence of an algal-like pyrenoid. Symbiotic interactions between hornworts/cyanobacteria and cyanobiont specificity.

http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Juan_Carlos_Villarreal/

email: juan.villarreal@uconn.edu,, jcarlos.villarreal@gmail.com.

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Cassandra Huizenga

Evolution of cysA gene loss during the diversification of liverworts

Leah Newman

Phylogenetic affinities of Micromitrium, a lineage of mosses with reduced morphology

Neva Hax (M.Sc.)

Dr. Norman Wickett

Evolution of life history shifts in bryophytes, with an emphasis on the loss of photosynthesis in the Aneuraceae.

Norm is currently at Penn State on a postdoc with Dr. Claude DePamphilis; he remains, however, involved in our current Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life project.

email: njw17@psu.edu

http://www.personal.psu.edu/njw17/

Jessica Clopton

I worked on two projects: first, a genetic characterization of the photobionts of lichen-forming fungi Lobaria silvae-veteris and Lobaria oregana, and second, a test of the lichen-guild hypothesis in a southern Patagonian forest. 

Chris Labreck

Liverwort DNA extraction

Lauren Parry

Evolution of cysT gene loss during the diversification of liverworts