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Congratulations to Jessica who will participate in the EAPSI this summer and work with Dr. Hasebe on Physcomitrella sporophyte development.
Congratulations to Juan Carlos who received an award from the International Association of Pland Taxonomists.
Congratulations to Norm who is moving to Penn State and work with Dr. DePamphilis on parasitic plants.
See article in Science daily on the Miniature forests of Cape Horn
New publications:
Wickett N.J., Y. Zhang, S.K. Hansen, J.M. Roper, J. V. Kuehl, S.A. Plock, P.G. Wolf, C.W. dePamphilis, J.L. Boore, and B. Goffinet. 2008. Functional Gene Losses Occur with Minimal Size Reduction in the Plastid Genome of the Parasitic Liverwort Aneura mirabilis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 393-401.On-line version available here.
Wickett N.J. & B. Goffinet. 2008. Origin and relationships of the myco-heterotrophic liverwort Cryptothallus mirabilis Malmb. (Metzgeriales, Marchantiophyta). Botanical Journal of Linnean Society 156: 1-12. On-line version available here
Rozzi R., J.J. Armesto, B. Goffinet, W. Buck, F. Massardo, J. Silander,
M.T.K. Arroyo, S. Russell, C.B. Anderson, L.A. Cavieres, and J.B. Callicott. 2007. Changing lenses to assess biodiversity:
patterns of species richness in sub-
Antarctic plants and implications
for global conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. On-line version available here.
Welcome to the Goffinet Lab! 
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.
Keep navigating in these pages to learn more about the biology of the citizens of the miniature forests!
Leisporoceros dussii (Steph.) Hassel
