BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life

We are a 🇫🇷 @univAMU + @CNRS research group dedicated to the study of primordial enzymes, reactive minerals, and the emergence of life! Open to collaboration!

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

We here review the extraordinary mineralogical properties of #greenrusts and their naturally occurring form, #fougerite, and discuss the pertinence of these properties within the alkaline hydrothermal vent (AHV) hypothesis for life's emergence.
https://t.co/CEa6g9HUDa

[Caroline L. Peacock @C_L_Peacock]

Great start to a great collaboration between my ERC 'MinOrg' and @MingyuZhao19 @willhomoky and @bjwmills! See how iron minerals preserve carbon and help build up atmospheric oxygen: https://t.co/sVELbYNeDO

@CohenGeochem @ESSILeeds @UniversityLeeds @ERCGrantees @ERC_Research

[Xianbiao Fu (付先���） @XianbiaoFu]

We have successfully achieved electrochemical ammonia synthesis by N2 reduction coupled with H2 oxidation in continuous-flow reactor at 1 bar and room temperature. When the gas-phase NH3 trapped in the HCl solution was evaporated, high-purity NH4Cl was obtained. It's amazing! 😎

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@benedictelbm @NatureComms @LGLTPE @IPGP_officiel Congrats Bénédicte!

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@Astro_Jonny I humbly offer my services in ESA's absence

[Bénédicte Ménez LB @benedictelbm]

Too excited to see these amazing measurements leading to such a nice model published in @NatureComms in collaboration with our colleagues from @LGLTPE - such a fun time using the FIB-SEM of @IPGP_officiel to open up fluid inclusions and reveal live all their organic treasures

[Geo⚡Electra thermophila @GeoElectra]

Interested in the Origin of Life & Life Detection in rocks ? Then join our @chemobrionics workshop @Athens 🗓️20-23 Feb funded by @COSTprogramme
Register now (no fee) https://t.co/K4BEXeynAE
check 👇our amazing invited speakers #prebiotic_chemistry #biosignatures

[Orion Farr, alchemist @Orionfarr]

My 1st paper!🥳 We look at metal sorption's effect on the transformation of #greenrust to #magnetite. Our findings imply that metal content in banded iron formations may not accurately reflect ancient marine chemistry given a GR-precursor. @Rutgers_Enigma
https://t.co/mXojdjVcv4

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

It’s cold out there, but not as cold as Europa (roughly -280 F on surface)! Here’s time-lapse from inside our Ark chamber showing water freezing under partial vacuum as we prepared an experiment. Happy holidays from the Ocean Worlds Lab:

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@KeJahnke How are you observing this?

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@KeJahnke Wow!

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

Tuesday morning please check out our PhD candidate @orionfarr and his @theAGU oral presentation on reactive iron mineral interactions with methane! Session B22A-07 #AGU #greenrust

[Steffen Buessecker @earthmicrobe]

We also introduce a new mechanism by which NO molecules may have reached deeper ocean zones by Fe mineral shuttling. W. Nitschke, M. Russell and others have been arguing for years that NO was an essential e acceptor on early Earth and our study supports the geochemistry for this.

[Steffen Buessecker @earthmicrobe]

In the 70s and 80s works by Yung, McKay and others showed nitrogen could have been fixed abiotically in the Archean atmosphere. In 2017, I. Halevy proposed a dominance of green rust minerals in the early ocean. In our new article out today @NatureGeosci we combined both concepts.

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@PlanetDr Blindsight!

[matt van ginneken @Matthias_vangi]

Ever wanted to see the distribution of vesicles inside a tektite? Here you go!
Scanned at the Imaging Center for Life Sciences of @UniKent.

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@Shamrocketeer @NASAWebb @keckobservatory Beautiful!

[BiP09: Bioenergetics + Emergence of Life @GreenRustOne]

@Astro_Jonny @Shamrocketeer @ESO seems too good to be true!

[Astrobiology @astrobiology]

Hydrogen-supported Life Beneath Antarctic Glaciers https://t.co/qtewtJlRlj #Astrobiology #Antarctica

[Go to sea for science! @goseascience]

THIS THING IS REAL!! The first time I saw one of these get added to the project I had to do a double take. This is Bassia bassenensis, an unbelievably shaped siphonophore that is bioluminescent and turns bright white when threatened.

📸: luca_dt on @inaturalist