1994
The Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program (OGMP) consults with Charley O'Kelly from which
protists to sequence mtDNA. Among the little-known Euglenozoa, Diplonema papillatum is one of the selected species.
After sequencing ~25 kbp of a random mtDNA library, no gene was found and D. papillatum was put on ice.

Aug 1998 
at the ISEP meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, GB invites JL to find out where the mitochondrial genes of 
  Diplonema papillatum might hide.

   Sep 2001
   William Marande starts in GB's lab his PhD project on the mitochondrial genome of D. papillatum

Jun 2002
First poster presentation "Characterization of the mitochondrial DNA of Diplonema papillatum."
(Marande W*, Tremblay D, Lukes J, Burger G)


FIRST INSTANCE OF APPENDAGE RNA EDITING DETECTED IN MITOS

   Jun 2007
   William defends successfully his thesis

   Aug 2007
   Georgette Kiethega starts her PhD on Diplonema mitochondrial gene fragmentation

2008
JL arranges the sequencing of the entire Diplonema genome by  C. Vlcek at the Inst Mol Genet, Czech Acad Sci, Prag

Feb 2009
First genome sequences obtained (50 Gbp 454 reads)

   Apr 2009
   Sandrine Moreira starts her PhD project in GB's lab on the assembly and annotation of the D. papillatum nuclear genome

WHEN WAS FIRST SUBSTITUTION RNA EDITING DETECTED??

2010
Publication of the D. papi mtDNA
(Vlcek C, Marande W, Teijeiro S, Lukes J, Burger G)

   Oct 2011
   Matus Valach joins GB's lab as a post-doc to work on Diplonema

   Jun 2013
   Georgette defends successfully her thesis.

   Nov 2016
   Sandrine defends successfully her thesis.