141 New Advances in Geobiology

This session will focus on new research at the intersection between geologic and biologic processes with special emphasis on novel materials and methods, new field sites, and advances at the intersections of scientific fields.

Monday, 20 October 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
HBGCC, 305

Participants

• Chair Trinity Hamilton
• Chair Dylan Wilmeth
• Chair Ana Gonzalez-Nayeck
• Chair Katie Maloney
• Chair Lydia Tackett
• Chair Brandt Gibson
• Chair Diana Velazquez

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  Diagenetic Controls on the Preservation and Transformation of Microbial Biosignatures in Silica Sinters
  Rui-Lin Cheng, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Carolina Munoz-Saez, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  412412 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  Problematic cylindrical microbially-influenced sedimentary structures of the Tonian Chichkan Formation, Kishi (Lesser) Karatau, Kazakhstan
  Cecilia Sanders, University of Maryland, College Park, MD and Sezim Mustapayeva, Satbayev University, Almaty and Yerkhozha Mamanov, Satbayev University, Almaty and Aibolat Talgatbekov, Satbayev University, Almaty and Sabrina Khan, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Emily Smith, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  412436 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  How to Built a Microbialite in an Anoxic World
  Pieter Visscher, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  412985 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  Built by Microbes: How Herbivores Thrive on Low-Protein Diets
  Anejelique Martinez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Paul Koch, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California and Anna Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C and Seth Newsome, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  412603 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  Body Building with Microbes: Protein Metabolism in Pleistocene Megafaunal Herbivores
  Paul Koch, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Anejelique Martinez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Emily Milton, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Matthew Hill, Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Seth Newsome, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  413989 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  Spatially Resolved Deconvolution of Texture Formation and Initial Diagenetic Mechanisms in Carbonate Dendrolitic Microbialites
  Victoria Cassady, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Victoria Petryshyn, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA and Aaron Celestian, Natural History Musuem Of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Mengshi Liu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA and Ariel McCormack, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA and Kelsey Perez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California and Will Berelson, USC, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ Southern California Dept Earth Sci, Los Angeles, CA and Frank Corsetti, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  413771 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  Tracking ocean acidification in the Early Jurassic using ooid size to reconstruct carbonate saturation state
  Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Wilson Bai, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Zoltan Sylvester, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Elizabeth Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO and Lahcen Kabiri, Moulay Ismail University, Errachidia and Stéphane Bodin, Aarhus University, Aarhus
  413045 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  Extraordinary, Out-Of-This-World Triple Oxygen Isotopic Enrichment in Equisetum
  Zachary Sharp, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Payal Banerjee, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Cloe Knutson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Catherine Peshek, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Jessica Johnson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Anthony Gargano, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas and Thure Cerling, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Jordan Wostbrock, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  413755 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Water in unexpected places
  Cloe Knutson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Zachary Sharp, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Seth Newsome, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  413768 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  Where the Wild Things Heal: Linking Subsurface Geology to Microbial Ecology and Bioactive Potential in Kentucky Caves
  Rachel Washburn, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Doug Curl, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Kevin Tidgewell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Michael McGlue, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  412709 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Photoprotective Pigments in Dryland Microbial Biogeochemistry
  James Fulton, Baylor University Department of Geosciences, Waco, TX and Joshua Ford, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Tabinda Athar, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Meera Kirpal, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Cheryl Fast, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  414444 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  Metabolic Diversity of the Ferrovales and Potential Contributions to Iron Oxidation
  Christen Grettenberger, UC DavisEarth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA and Trinity Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
  413452 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy as a Tool for Studying Evolution: An Example from the Upper Cretaceous of the Mississippi Embayment
  T. Puckett, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
  414501 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  Machine learning reveals the evolution of the animal biomineralization toolkit from molecular fingerprints of modern and fossil tissues
  Jasmina Wiemann, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  414754 (Technical Sessions)