VERONIKA ENDS HER ERASMUS TRAINSHIP

12th OF JUNE 2026

After 3 months on and Erasmus scholarship Veronika Veselá will go home to her host institution Charles University in Prague.
Veronika did such an amazing job in assembling 11 genomes of Trebouxia and Asterochlorix and creating high quality assemblies based on long reads. We will miss you Veronika! I hope you can come back one day!

AGNES, KARL & ESTER DEFENDED THEIR BACHELOR THESIS !!!

5th OF JUNE 2026

What a great day! After three months of hard work where they performed long read amplicon analyses, run DADA2 on Uppmax, killed and revived lichens, measure photosynthesis they finally made it. Three excellent bachelor thesis that in my opinion are more at the master level are ready to be published!

Congrats Trebouxia’s Angels!

This month our group gain 4 new members!

MARCH 2026

We welcome Veronika Veselá from  Pavel Škaloud’s lab. Veronika is a guest PhD student supported by an ERASMUS+ grant from Charles University in Prague! Veronika is interested to understand why the two photobiont genera Trebouxia and Asterochloris evolved different preferences for their fungal partners.

We also welcome three bachelor students: Ester Ward, Agnes Jämtjärn and Karl Angervall, which will do their bachelor thesis on different photobiont topics. Read more about the projects here.