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 …
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 …
Our next stop was the TREC Supersite in Napoli at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, where Elisabeth and Kazuya developed a protocol for sorting cells of kleptoplastidic dinoflagellates using the COPAS Vision …
The spring sampling season has begun! Our first stop this year was the TREC Supersite in Barcelona at the Institut de Ciències de Mar, where Elisabeth and Kazuya were isolating single cells …
Our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr Kazuya Takahashi, formerly of University of Tokyo, will be our resident specialist in cultivation methods, systematics and ultrastructure of understudied lineages of dinoflagellates. We are …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
