April 2026 – Arrival of another new team member
Just before Easter, Chariane Werlang, who received her PhD from the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil, has joined our lab. Chariane will work with some of our dinoflagellates in …
December 2025 – Arrival of a new team member
Just before Christmas, MitchellRey “Rey” Toleco has joined our team. He has done his PhD at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and in our lab he will develop, among other …
December 2025 – TREC Symposium at EMBL Heidelberg
Elisabeth attended the TREC (Traversing European Coastlines) Symposium at EMBL Heidelberg to present the results – a collaborative effort by the whole lab – generated from the samples Kazuya and …
July 2025 – Sampling with the AML in Vigo
In the first half of July we had the great opportunity to go sampling with the Advanced Mobile Lab (AML) from EMBL Heidelberg, hosted by the Toralla Marine Science Station …
July 2025 – The ERC has begun, and the team is gathering
The beginning of July marked the beginning of Elisabeth’s ERC project, and the lab welcomes its two newest members – and its first PhD students. Leïla Jacquot, holding a Master …
June 2025 – International Congress of Protistology (ICOP) in Korea
Several lab members travelled to Seoul to attend the ICOP 2025 – the largest meeting in the field in Protistology which had not taken place since 2017. Elisabeth presented a talk …
February 2025 – Meeting of the Society of Eukaryotic Microbiology in Switzerland
Thanks to the Society of Eukaryotic Microbiology, formerly known as the German Society of Protozoology, we had a rare opportunity to attend a conference in winter. Through Elisabeth’s keynote lecture …
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/
November 2024 – A long-awaited return to Japan!
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 …
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 …