We are very happy to announce that Elisabeth received an ERC Consolidator Grant! The 5-year project will be centered around studying kleptoplasty in dinoflagellates. Institute press release: https://www.paru.cas.cz/en/news-events/news-detail/7451-elisabeth-hehenberger-receives-prestigious-grant-for-research-on-the-evolution-of-photosynthesis/
After a year and a half, we are back in Japan, for our second Mobility Project Plus supported trip! This time, together with members of the Kolisko and the Inagaki Lab, we are hosted by Filip Husnik and his group at the marvellous Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). We are excited to see what we can find in the subtropical environments of Okinawa, such as coral reefs and mangrove forests!
Elisabeth received an invitation to deliver a plenary lecture at the Protistology Nordics Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, where she presented the most recent findings from our lab, focusing on the extremely dynamic evolution of plastids in the dinoflagellate family Kareniaceae. At the same time, Kacper and Kazuya presented their work at the 53rd Jirovec’s Protozoological Days in Karlova Studánka in the Czech Republic.
