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ALL PUBLICATIONS

Publication in peer reviewed journals

Thomas, C., Filella, M., Ionescu, D., Sorieul, S., Pollier, C. G. L., Oehlert, A., ... & Ariztegui, D. (2023). Combined genomic and imaging techniques show intense arsenic enrichment caused by detoxification in a microbial mat of the Dead Sea shore. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011239

Ordóñez, L., Neugebauer, I., Thomas, C., Chiaradia, M., Waldmann, N., & Ariztegui, D. (2024). Sediment redox dynamics in an oligotrophic deep-water lake in Tierra del Fuego: insights from Fe isotopes. Journal of Paleolimnology. Accepted

Massiot, C., Adam, L., Boyd, E.S., Cary, C., Colman, D.R., Cox, A., Hughes, E., Kilgour, G., Lelli, M., Liotta, D., Lloyd, K.G., Marr, T., McNamara, D.D., Milicich, S.D., Miller, C.A., Misra, S., Nichols A.R.L., Pierdominici, S., Rooyakkers, S.M., Schmitt, D.R., Stefansson, A., Stix, J., Stott, M.B., Thomas, C., Villamor, P., Wang, P., Zarrouk, S. and the CALDERA workshop participants, 2024 : CALDERA: A scientific drilling concept to unravel Connections Among Life, geo-Dynamics and Eruptions in a Rifting Arc caldera, Okataina Volcanic Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand. Scientific Drilling, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-33-67-2024

Thomas, C., Privat, A., Vaucher, R., Spychala, Y., Zuchuat, V., Marchegiano, M., Poyatos-Moré, M., Kane, I., & Chiarella, D., 2023: Sedimentologika: a community-driven diamond open access journal in sedimentology. Sedimentologika, 1(1).
https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2023.e11.1015 

Levy, E.J.,  Thomas, C., Antler, G., Gavrieli, I., Turchyn, A.V., Grossi, V., Ariztegui, D., Sivan, O., 2022, Intensified microbial sulfate reduction in the deep Dead Sea during the early Holocene Mediterranean sapropel 1 deposition: Geobiology, 20(4). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gbi.12493 

Neugebauer, I., Thomas, C., Waldmann, N., Recasens, C., and Ariztegui, D., 2022, Cyclic preservation of Fe/Mn-redox fronts in sediments of an oligotrophic, ventilated deep-water lake (Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego): Sedimentology (accepted), doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12976

Eymard, I., Álvarez, P., Bilmes, A., Vasconcelos, C., Thomas, C., and Ariztegui, D., 2021, Evolving controls on mineralization in Patagonian microbial mats as inferred by water chemistry, microscopy and DNA signatures: Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, v. 28, p. 131–149, 

Capo E, Giguet-covex C, Rouillard A, Nota K, Heintzman PD, Vuillemin A, Ariztegui D, Arnaud F, Belle S, Bertilsson S, Bigler C, Bindler R, Brown AG, Clarke CL, Crump SE, Debroas D, Englund G, Ficetola GF, Garner RE, Gauthier J, Gregory-Eaves I, Heinecke L, Herzschuh U, Ibrahim A, Kisand V, Kjær KH, Lammers Y, Littlefair J, Messager E, Monchamp M-E, Olajos F, Orsi W, Pedersen MW, Rijal DP, Rydberg J, Spanbauer T, Stoof-Leichsenring KR, Taberlet P, Talas L, Thomas C, Walsh D, Wang Y, Willerslev E, Woerkom A van, Zimmermann HH, Coolen MJL, Epp LS, Domaizon I, Alsos IG, Parducci L, 2021 

Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity : Overview and recommendations . Quaternary 0–75, https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010006.​

Thomas, C., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Wagner, B., Ariztegui, D., 2020 Weak Influence of Paleoenvironmental Conditions on the Subsurface Biosphere of Lake Ohrid over the Last 515 ka: Microorganisms 2020, 8, 1736. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8111736

Thomas, C., Grossi, V., Antheaume, I., and Ariztegui, D., 2019, Recycling of Archaeal Biomass as a New Strategy for Extreme Life in the Dead Sea Deep Sediment: Geology, 47 (5): 479-482 doi: 10.1130/G45801.1

Thomas C., Ariztegui D., 2019, Fluid inclusions from the deep Dead Sea sediment provide new insights on Holocene extreme microbial life: Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 212, p.18-27, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.020.

Payandi-Rolland D., Roche A., Vennin E., Visscher P.T., Amiotte-Suchet P., Thomas C. and Bundeleva I.A., 2019, Carbonate Precipitation in Mixed Cyanobacterial Biofilms Forming Freshwater Microbial Tufa: Minerals, 9(7), 409, https://doi.org/10.3390/min9070409

Thomas, C., Frossard, V., Perga, M., Tofield-Pasche, N., Hofmann, H., Dubois, N., Belkina, N., Zobkova, M., Robert, S., Lyautey, E., 2018a, Lateral variations and vertical structure of the microbial methane cycle in the sediment of Lake: Inland Waters, p. 1–22, doi: 10.1080/20442041.2018.1500227.


Kanellopoulos, C., Thomas, C., Xirokostas, N., and Ariztegui, D., 2018, Banded Iron Travertines at the Ilia Hot Spring
(Greece): An interplay of biotic and abiotic factors leading to a modern Banded Iron Formation analogue? The
Depositional Record, , no. July, p. 1–23,
doi: 10.1002/dep2.55.


Martignier, A., Pacton, M., Filella, M., Jaquet, J.-M., Barja, F., Pollok, K., Langenhorst, F., Lavigne, S., Guagliardo, P., Kilburn,
M., Thomas, C., Martini, R., Ariztegui, D., and Ariztegui, R.M.D., 2016, Intracellular amorphous carbonates uncover a new
biomineralization process in eukaryotes: Geobiology, , no. April, p. 1–14,
doi: 10.1111/gbi.12213.

 

Thomas, C., Ebert, Y., Kiro, Y., Stein, M., and Ariztegui, D., 2016, Microbial sedimentary imprint on the deep Dead Sea
sediment: The Depositional Record, p. 1–21,
doi: 10.1002/dep2.16.

 

Ariztegui, D., Thomas, C., and Vuillemin, A., 2015, Present and future of subsurface biosphere studies in lacustrine
sediments through scientic drilling: International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 104, no. 6, p. 1655–1665,
doi: 10.1007/s00531-015-1148-4

Thomas, C., Ionescu, D., and Ariztegui, D., 2015, Impact of paleoclimate on the distribution of microbial communities
in the subsurface sediment of the Dead Sea: Geobiology, v. 13, no. 6, p. 546–561,
doi: 10.1111/gbi.12151.

 

Thomas, C., Ionescu, D., Ariztegui, D., and the DSDDP Science Party, 2014, Archaeal populations in two distinct
sedimentary facies of the subsurface of the Dead Sea: Marine Genomics, v. 17, p. 53–62,

doi: 10.1016/j.margen.2014.09.001.

 

Thesis
Thomas, C. (2015). Investigating the subsurface biosphere of a hypersaline environment-the Dead Sea (Levant)
(University of Geneva).
doi: 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:73724

 

Preprints (submitted and under review)

Corthesy, N., Saleh, F., Thomas, C., Antcliffe, J. B., & Daley, A. C. (2024). The effects of clay minerals on bacterial community composition during arthropod decay. bioRxiv, 2024-02. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.19.580992 

Other communications

Recent oral and poster presentations in international congresses

International Meeting in Sedimentology, 2021, Prague, Czech Republic. Best Poster for an Early Career Scientist award

Goldschmidt, 2021 Lyon, France and 2016, Yokohama, Japan (Oral presentation)

European Geophysical Union meeting, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, Vienna, Austria (PICO presentations)

International Sedimentology Congress, 2018, Quebec City, Canada. Best Poster for an Early Career Scientist award

International Meeting in Sedimentology, 2017, Toulouse, France. Overall Best Poster for an Early Career Scientist award

American Geophysical Union fall meeting, 2012 and 2014, San Francisco, USA (Poster presentations)

International Sedimentology Congress, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland (Oral presentation)

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