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.