Programme

Extended programme

All lectures will take place in NO C 60 at ETH Central Campus (Sonneggstrasse 5, Zurich).

There will be an early career event from 15:00 – 16:30 (location TBD)

Friday, 21 October 2022

17:00 – 17:10 Welcome to the D-A-CH Geobiology Symposium 2022

17:10 – 18:00 Alex Sessions, CalTech (plenary lecture) - Merging stable isotope geochemistry with environmental metabolomics

18:00 – 19:30 Apéro

Saturday, 22 October 2022

Session 1

9:00 – 9:10 Introductory remarks

9:10 – 9:40 Nir Galili, ETH (invited lecture) - The geologic history of seawater DOC from marine iron oxides

9:40 – 9:55 Anita Sanchez, T.U. Bergakademie Freiberg - Dissolved organic carbon effects on the mobilization of metals in a historic mine drainage

9:55 – 10:10 Franz Kerschhofer, University of Göttingen - Organic geochemical data of higher plant coals from Svalbard and Northeast Greenland reveal implications for a connected Paleogene setting

10:10 – 10:25 Margaux Molinas, EPFL - Insights into the reduction mechanism of solid-phase U(VI)-dpaea and aqueous U(V)-dpaea complexes

Session 2

11:15 – 11:45 Noelle Held, ETH (invited lecture) - Protein biomarkers of biogeochemical processes: A case study in the marine nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium

11:45 – 12:00 Zhe Wang, TUM - Deciphering microbial nitrogen and sulfur cycling in lower-order agricultural stream sediments using genome-resolved long-read metagenomics approaches

12:00 – 12:15 Beatrix Heinze, Friedrich Schiller University Jena - Rock-leached organic carbon drives subsurface microbiomes

12:15 – 12:30 Jiangtao Qiao, EPFL - The Effect of Substrate Availability on Anaerobic Arsenic Methylation by Paraclostridium bifermentans strain EML

Lunch in the NO C floor atrium

Session 3

2:00 – 2:30 Dimitri Meier, ETH (invited lecture) - Microbial life on hold? Microbial survival strategies in growth-limiting environments

2:30 – 2:45 Natalia Jakus, EPFL - Microbial persistence and metabolism in a hundreds of millions of years-old clay as a natural analogue for deep geological radioactive waste

2:45 – 3:00 Joely Marie Maak, University of Hamburg - Molecular fossil inventory in microbial carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli

3:00 – 3:15 Zhiyong Lin, University of Hamburg - A novel microbial magnetite source in methanic sediments

3:15 – 3:30 Patrick Meister, University of Vienna - The dynamic deep biosphere: what we can learn from the geological record

3:30 – 3:45 Closing Remarks and Invitation to Poster Session and Apéro

3:45 – 5:00 Poster Session and Apéro