Welcome
to the Duke Bryology Lab site
Members of the bryology lab at Duke are involved in a broad range of taxonomic, phylogenetic, molecular, ecological, and floristic research. Our general goal is to apply appropriate laboratory and field techniques to understand patterns and processes of evolution in mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. We interact extensively with other lab groups in the biology department dealing with complementary problems in organismal evolution.
The bryology lab group holds informal weekly meetings at which we discuss current papers, critique each other's work in progress, "brainstorm" potential research plans, and share good food. Other related activities in which we participate are the weekly systematics seminar series, the more informal weekly systematics discussion group, and the population biology discussion group.
Enter the 4th International Meeting on the Biology of Sphagnum, Alaska, 1-11 August 2008, website
Enter
the LiToL project website
Summer 2005 and 2006 - undergraduate student project
The Department
of Biology at Duke University
hosted seven undergraduate students each summer (2004-2006) in an NSF-funded research
program in Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic Approaches to the Study of Plant
and Fungal Biodiversity.
Francis Beecher (Gannon U.) studied fungal
endophytes of mosses with Kim and Ping
in the Bryology Lab in 2005.
During the summer of 2006, Sarah Assefa (Clark U.)
is analysing collection
data to clarify biodiversity patterns in bryophytes of North Carolina. Results
of the databasing effort and her analysis will be presented in Botany 2006 meeting
in Chico, CA. Download pdf of the poster
here [753KB].
The National Science Foundation has funded a grant for data basing Duke bryophyte collections from the southeastern U.S. We had support to hire two undergraduate students in summer 2005 for work on the project. The students focused on entering data for rare species into our data base, and also conducted field studies of selected taxa, photographically documented their ecology, morphology, and patterns of variation, and prepared information for inclusion in the project website.
Last update: November 7, 2007
Shaw Laboratory
139
Biological Sciences Bldg.
Box 90338
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham
North Carolina 27708
U.S.A.
Phone: (+1) 919
660-7345
Fax: (+1) 919 660-7293