Graduate student Charlie Goodman and I have spent the last two weeks teaching a class titled “Algal Bioinformatics in the Context of Climate Change” at Shantou University in Shantou, China. Organized through the Shantou University – Universitá Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) Joint Algal Research Center, the class was sponsored by the Shantou University College of… Continue reading →

Chara is a large and structurally complex green alga that is common in streams and ponds worldwide.Chara the other stoneworts (Charophyceae sensu stricto, or Charales sensu Mattox and Stewart) form an important component of the freshwater flora, and have superficial structural similarities to land plants. In 2001 our lab published a paper indicating that the… Continue reading →