All the abstracts can be found below
Sessions
How microbial communities influence microbialite formation
Conveners: Jasmine Berg (UNIL), Peter Visscher (U. Connecticut)
Keynote Speaker: Tanja Bosak (MIT)
“Exploring the formation mechanisms and biosignature preservation
potential of martian carbonates”
Microbial carbonate as carbon storage system
Convener: Nina Zeyen (UNIGE), Alice Boscos Santos (UNIL)
Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Tutolo (Calgary University)
“Understanding microbial carbonate formation in alkaline lacustrine settings and its potential as a carbon storage system”
Latest advances in microbialites analyses
Convener: Anneleen Foubert (UNIFr), Sylvie Bruggmann (UNIL)
Keynote Speaker: Simon Hohl (Tongji University)
“Using Cd, Ni, and Ba isotope systematics in Archean stromatolites to elucidate Earth’s earliest microbial metabolisms”
How to distinguish abiotic and biotic signatures in stromatolite
Conveners: Purificación López-Garcìa (CNRS, DEEM), Sylvain Bernard (CNRS, MNHN)
Keynote Speaker: Julie Cosmidis (Oxford University)
“Rock solid evidence: distinguishing true microbial biosignatures from false positives in ancient rocks ”
Microbialite through the geological record
Conveners: Jordon Hemingway (ETHZ), Virgil Pasquier (UNIL)
Keynote Speaker: Erica Barlow (Penn State University)
“Microbialites as biological and environmental archives”