{"id":55,"date":"2023-12-14T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protistomics.eu\/hehenberger\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2024-10-05T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T16:01:12","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-7e6e36ea alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p>Plastid endosymbiosis was a major evolutionary transition, introducing photosynthesis to eukaryotes and shaping a vast diversity of primary producers. Yet, we do not know how this process works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my group we are using dinoflagellates, an extremely diverse, abundant and widespread group of microbial eukaryotes, to study the process of plastid endosymbiosis. Dinoflagellates are characterized by their extremely dynamic plastid evolution: they have been described to have replaced their ancestral plastid several times with new, permanent plastids from various algal donors. In addition, they have evolved the mechanism of kleptoplasty \u2013 the stealing and transient retention of plastids from their algal prey \u2013 more frequently than any other group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-219c4397\"><h5 class=\"uagb-heading-text\">Current projects in our lab:<\/h5><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative transcriptomics of kareniaceaen dinoflagellates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultivation of undescribed dinoflagellate lineages with replaced plastids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isolation and single-cell transcriptomics of dinoflagellates with putative kleptoplastidic behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastid endosymbiosis was a major evolutionary transition, introducing photosynthesis to eukaryotes and shaping a vast diversity of primary producers. Yet, we do not know how this process works. In my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"onepress-blog-small":false,"onepress-small":false,"onepress-medium":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"serafim","author_link":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/author\/serafim\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Plastid endosymbiosis was a major evolutionary transition, introducing photosynthesis to eukaryotes and shaping a vast diversity of primary producers. Yet, we do not know how this process works. In my ...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protistomics.org\/hehenberger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}