December 2024 – ERC Consolidator Grant for Elisabeth!

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/

May 2024 – Conference time!

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 …

October/November 2023 – Elisabeth joins TREC!

Elisabeth joins for the first time the TREC expedition at the supersite in Porto, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research. Her aim is to test the COPAS Vision Imaging …

July 2023 – Kacper’s conference talk in Vienna!

Kacper presented his work on the enigmatic fish-associated yet photosynthetic dinoflagellate Crepidoodinium at the Joint meeting of the IX European Congress of Protistology – International Society of Protistologists (ECOP – ISOP), held in Vienna, …

June 2023 – A field trip to the Pacific!

In late May, Elisabeth and Kacper travelled to Japan, accompanied by colleges from the Kolisko Lab and supported by a Mobility Project Plus from the Czech Academy of Sciences and …

May 2023 – Elisabeth’s invited talk in Ostrava!

Elisabeth was invited to hold a seminar at the Department of Biology and Ecology at the University of Ostrava about the deeply complex plastid evolution of dinoflagellates and their use as models …