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	. iNTRODUCTION TO BRYOPHYTES is out Lily R. Lewis joined the lab as the new ph.D. student to work on bryophyte population genetics and conservation in Chile Rafael Medina (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) is visiting the lab to work on Orthotrichum phylogeny and evolution Highlights of the lab in the UCONN Magazine The Storrs L. OLson bryological library is now on-line. Congratulations to Jessica for receiving awards from the American Microscopical Society, The International Association of Bryologists and the Botanical Society of America. See article in Science daily on the Miniature forests of Cape Horn New publications: Vanderpoorten A. & B. Goffinet. 2009. Introduction to Bryophytes. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. LarraÍn J. , F. Herrera, J. M. Budke , B. Goffinet. 2009. Phylogenetic affinities and conservation status of the Chilean endemic Costesia spongiosa (Gigaspermaceae). The Bryologist 112: 278–286. Marino P., R. Raguso, and B. Goffinet. 2009. The ecology and evolution of fly dispersed dung mosses (Family Splachnaceae). Symbiosis 47: 61-76.		B. Goffinet Post Docs Grads Undergrads Visiting researchers Former Members 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 Click here to view Bernard's CV 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 Click here to view Lily's CV     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. Click here to view Juan Carlos's CV Current Undergraduate Students 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 Melissa Wynne Regenerative ability of the moss calyptra Visiting researchers Rafael Medina (PhD. candidate) - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Epiphytic bryophytes of the juniper forests of the Mediterranean basin Taxonomy and systematics of the genus Orthotrichum, subgenus Pulchella email: rafael.medina@uam.es Past Lab Members 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
	Dung mosses: Splachnum rubrum (red sporophyte) and S. luteum (yellowish-green). College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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