Peter Schafran

This study presents the first plastome-scale phylogenomic analysis of the tribe Spermacoceae, clarifying generic boundaries and supporting taxonomic revisions.

This paper develops a biolistics method for transforming hornworts, enabling transient expression and stable transgenic lines, and uses it to study pyrenoid protein localization.

The paper maps the chromatin landscape of hornworts to infer the ancestral chromatin structure of bryophytes and land plants.

PURC v2.0 improves sequence inference for polyploid phylogenetics by incorporating ASV methods alongside OTU clustering, enhancing accuracy over previous OTU-based approaches.

This study uses nanopore sequencing to characterize a harmful algal bloom, showing it can identify dominant organisms and functional genes, though it has limitations in detecting rare taxa.