Tracing ancient microbial cells embedded in silica

Project Information

TRACES

Grant agreement ID: 646894

DOI

10.3030/646894

Project closed

EC signature date 7 April 2015

Start date 1 May 2015

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 250,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 250,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

The convergence of minerals and life

Author(s): Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Mark A. van Zuilen, Wolfgang Bach
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, 2020, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2020.07.004

Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet

Author(s): Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Mark A. van Zuilen, Wolfgang Bach
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, 2020, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2020.01.001

A morphogram for silica-witherite biomorphs and its application to microfossil identification in the early earth rock record

Author(s): J. Rouillard, J.-M. García-Ruiz, J. Gong, M. A. van Zuilen
Published in: Geobiology, Issue 16, 2018, Page(s) 279-296, ISSN 1472-4677
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12278

Formation and Preservation of Microbial Palisade Fabric in Silica Deposits from El Tatio, Chile

Author(s): Jian Gong, Kimberly D. Myers, Carolina Munoz-Saez, Martin Homann, Joti Rouillard, Richard Wirth, Anja Schreiber, Mark A. van Zuilen
Published in: Astrobiology, Issue 20, 2020, ISSN 1531-1074
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2019.2025

Identifying microbial life in rocks: Insights from population morphometry

Author(s): Joti Rouillard, Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Linda Kah, Emmanuelle Gérard, Laurie Barrier, Sami Nabhan, Jian Gong, Mark A. Zuilen
Published in: Geobiology, Issue 18, 2019, Page(s) 282-305, ISSN 1472-4677
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12377

Evidence for molecular structural variations in the cytoarchitectures of a Jurassic plant

Author(s): Yuangao Qu, Nicola McLoughlin, Mark. A. van Zuilen, Martin Whitehouse, Anders Engdahl, Vivi Vajda
Published in: Geology, Issue 47/4, 2019, Page(s) 325-329, ISSN 0091-7613
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g45725.1

Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago

Author(s): Martin Homann, Pierre Sansjofre, Mark Van Zuilen, Christoph Heubeck, Jian Gong, Bryan Killingsworth, Ian S. Foster, Alessandro Airo, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Magali Ader, Stefan V. Lalonde
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 11/9, 2018, Page(s) 665-671, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0190-9

An Alternative Approach for Assessing Biogenicity

Author(s): Joti Rouillard, Mark van Zuilen, Céline Pisapia, Juan-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz
Published in: Astrobiology, 2020, ISSN 1531-1074
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2282

Depositional evolution of an extinct sinter mound from source to outflow, El Tatio, Chile

Author(s): Dylan T. Wilmeth, Sami Nabhan, Kimberly D. Myers, Silvina Slagter, Stefan V. Lalonde, Pierre Sansjofre, Martin Homann, Kurt O. Konhauser, Carolina Munoz-Saez, Mark A. van Zuilen
Published in: Sedimentary Geology, Issue 406, 2020, Page(s) 105726, ISSN 0037-0738
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105726

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Proposed early signs of life not set in stone

Author(s): Mark A. van Zuilen
Published in: Nature, Issue 563/7730, 2018, Page(s) 190-191, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-06994-x