Publications and communications of Emmanuelle Javaux

Demoulin, C., Sforna, M.-C., Lara, Y., Cornet, Y., Somogyi, A., Medjoubi, K., Grolimund, D., Sanchez, D. F., Tachoueres, R. T., Addad, A., Fadel, A., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (16 February 2024). Polysphaeroides filiformis, a proterozoic cyanobacterial microfossil and implications for cyanobacteria evolution. iScience, 27 (2), 108865. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108865

Demoulin, C., Lara, Y., Lambion, A., & Javaux, E. (January 2024). Oldest thylakoids in fossil cells directly evidence oxygenic photosynthesis. Nature, 625 (7995), 529 - 534. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06896-7

Malaterre, C., Ten Kate, I. L., Baqué, M., Debaille, V., Grenfell, J. L., Javaux, E., Khawaja, N., Klenner, F., Lara, Y., McMahon, S., Moore, K., Noack, L., Patty, C. H. L., & Postberg, F. (10 November 2023). Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature? Astrobiology, 23 (11), 1213 - 1227. doi:10.1089/ast.2023.0042

Johnson, B., Tostevin, R., Clayton, K., Robinson, S. A., Tosca, N., & Javaux, E. (11 May 2023). Microfossil taphonomy in clay-rich rocks in Proterozoic environments analogous to the Noachian on Mars [Paper presentation]. BEACON.

Lara, Y., Demoulin, C., Vansteenkiste, A., & Javaux, E. (11 May 2023). Cyanobacterial photoprotective pigments as example of robust signatures of life [Poster presentation]. BEACON 2023 Biennal European Astrobiology Conference, Fuencaliente, La Palma, Spain.

Malaterre, C., Javaux, E., & López-García, P. (2023). Misconceptions in Science. Perspectives on Science, 1-40. doi:10.1162/posc_a_00590

Dauphas, N., Russell, S., Beaty, D., Thiessen, F., Barnes, J., Bonal, L., Bridges, J., Bristow, T., Eiler, J., Ferrière, L., Fornaro, T., Gattacceca, J., Hoffman, B., Javaux, E., Kleine, T., Mcsween, H., Prasad, M., Rampe, L., Schmidt, M., ... Stern, J. (2023). Science Priorities for the Extraction of the Solid MSR Samples from their Sample Tubes NASA-ESA Mars Rock Team. arXiv:2301.04694 arXivLabs astro-ph.IM. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2301.04694

Javaux, E., & Johnson, B. (2023). The ICDP BASE (Barberton Archean Surface Environments) project: exploring early Earth and distant habitability and life [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain.

Johnson, B., Tostevin R, Clayton K.E., Robinson S, Tosca N.J., & Javaux, E. (2023). Microfossil taphonomy in clay-rich rocks in Proterozoic environments analogue to the Noachian on Mars [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain.

Loes Ten Kate, I., Malaterre, C., Bacqué, M., Debaille, V., Lee Grenfell, J., Javaux, E., Klenner, F., Lara, Y., Mcmahon, S., Moore, K., Noack, L., Khawaja, N., Patty, L., & Postberg, F. (2023). On biosignatures and tracers of life [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain.

Noack, L., Loes Ten Kate, I., & Javaux, E. (2023). Towards a universal tracers portal [Poster presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain.

Paardekooper, D., Thiessen, F., Russell, S., Dauphas, N., Barnes, J., Bonal, L., Bridges, J., Bristow, T., Eiler, J., Ferrière, L., Fornaro, T., Gattacceca, J., Hoffman, B., Javaux, E., Kleine, T., Mcsween, H., Prasad, M., Rampe, E., Schmidt, M., ... Beaty, D. (2023). Options for post-landing extraction of solid-core samples from the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute Beacon 2023, La Palma, Spain.

Loron, C., Sforna, M., Borondics, F., Sandt, C., & Javaux, E. (November 2022). Synchrotron FTIR investigations of kerogen from Proterozoic organic-walled eukaryotic microfossils. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 123, 103476. doi:10.1016/j.vibspec.2022.103476

Coutant, M., Lepot, K., Fadel, A., Addad, A., Richard, E., Troadec, D., Ventalon, S., Sugitani, K., & Javaux, E. (2022). Distinguishing cellular from abiotic spheroidal microstructures in the ca. 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation. Geobiology. doi:10.1111/gbi.12506

Javaux, E. (18 October 2021). Origins and early evolution of the biospheres : insights from paleobiology [Paper presentation]. 2021 ISSOL meeting.

Coutant, M., Lepot, K., Fadel, A., Addad, A., Richard, E., Troadec, D., Ventalon, S., Sugitani, K., & Javaux, E. (13 October 2021). Evaluation of the biogenicity of putative large (>10µm) spherical microfossils from the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation [Paper presentation]. Conférence Nationale Exobiologie 2021, Marseille, France.

Javaux, E. (12 October 2021). EARLY EUKARYOGENESIS AND EUKARYOTIC DIVERSIFICATION [Paper presentation]. Geological Society of America annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, United States. doi:10.1130/abs/2021AM-367904

Javaux, E., Spinks, S., & Kunzmann, M. (July 2021). New assemblages of Paleoproterozoic organic-walled microfossils and implications for eukaryogenesis and the early evolution of eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2021.

Javaux, E. (27 January 2021). The earliest traces of the three domains of life: evidence and challenges [Paper presentation]. ORIGINS 2021 Conference, Netherlands.

Ahn, A.-C., Cornet, L., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (18 October 2019). Biodiversity of Cyanobacteria and associated microbiome in the BCCM/ULC Culture Collection [Poster presentation]. 2019 Symposium of the Belgian Society for Microbiology, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Brocks, J. J., Gueneli, N., McKenna, A. M., Ohkouchi, N., Boreham, C. J., Beghin, J., & Javaux, E. (September 2019). The nitrogen-isotopic composition of 1.1 billion-year-old Porphyrins reveals oceans dominated by phototrophic bacteria [Paper presentation]. Plenary talk inaugural “Geoff Eglinton Lecture”, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Javaux, E. (May 2019). First Traces of Life: evidence and challenges [Paper presentation]. European Astrobiology Institute 1st General Assembly, Liblice, Czechia.

Brucato, J., Cabezas, P., Falanga, M., Gargaud, M., Henning, T., Hrusak, J., Javaux, E., Kirsimae, K., Mason, N., Martinez-Frias, J., Mas-Hesse, M., Mazeret, S., Olsson-Francis, K., Spohn, T., Taubner, R.-S., Westall, F., & Geppert, W. D. (2019). The European Astrobiology Institute–a new pan-European initiative in the field [Paper presentation]. Absicon Astrobiology Science Conference, Seattle Washington, United States.

Demoulin, C.* , Lara, Y.* , Cornet, L., François, C., Baurain, D., Wilmotte, A., & Javaux, E. (2019). Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 140, 206-223. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.007
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (18 December 2018). Adaptations to extreme conditions: the strategy of the Antarctic cyanobacterium ULC007 [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the FRS-FNRS Contact Group “Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life”, Liège, Belgium.

François, C., Debaille, V., Paquette, J.-L., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (18 October 2018). The earliest evidence for modern-style plate tectonics recorded by HP–LT metamorphism in the Paleoproterozoic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scientific Reports, 8 (15452). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-33823-y

Debaille, V., François, C., Javaux, E., O'Neill, C., & Brandon, A. D. (September 2018). Archean geodynamics and the onset of plate tectonics [Paper presentation]. GeoBonn 2018.

François, C., Debaille, V., Paquette, J.-L., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (June 2018). Paleoproterozoic HP-LT eclogites from the DRCongo: Implications for the onset of plate tectonics on Earth [Poster presentation]. 50 Years of Plate Tectonics: Then, Now, and Beyond.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Sforna, M.-C., Beghin, J., Cornet, Y., Storme, J.-Y., Fagel, N., Fontaine, F., Littke, R., Baudet, D., Delvaux, D., & Javaux, E. (2018). Raman microspectroscopy, bitumen reflectance and illite crystallinity scale: comparison of different geothermometry methods on fossiliferous Proterozoic sedimentary basins (DR Congo, Mauritania and Australia). International Journal of Coal Geology. doi:10.1016/j.coal.2018.03.007

Demoulin, C., Lara, Y., François, C., & Javaux, E. (21 March 2018). Biosignatures of modern and fossil cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. COST Life Origins Workshop 2018, Bertinoro.

Giraldo Martin, M., Cornet, Y., & Javaux, E. (21 March 2018). Isolating kerogeneous organic-walled microfossils from Precambrian fine-grained siliciclastic rocks [Poster presentation]. COST Oigins "Life on Earth and beyond: emergence, survivability, and impact on the environment", Bertinoro, Italy.

Cornet, Y., & Javaux, E. (20 March 2018). FTIR micro-spectroscopy: a tool to identify microfossils [Paper presentation]. COST Origins "Life on Earth and beyond: emergence, survivability, and impact on the environment", Bertinoro, Italy.

François, C., Debaille, V., Paquette, J.-L., Baudet, D., Kabamba Baludikay, B., & Javaux, E. (March 2018). Evidence of Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics: eclogitic subduction [Paper presentation]. COST Workshop 2018, Bertinoro.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Sforna, M.-C., Beghin, J., Cornet, Y., Storme, J.-Y., Fagel, N., Fontaine, F., Littke, R., Baudet, D., Delvaux, D., & Javaux, E. (March 2018). Use of different geothermometry methods on fossiliferous Proterozoic sediments to constrain thermal maturity of microfossils and sedimentary basins (DRCongo, Mauritania & Australia) [Poster presentation]. COST Workshop 2018, Bertinoro.

Lara, Y., Beets, K., Simons, V., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Santoro, M., Laughinghouse IV, H., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). Polar cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC collection : diversity and characterization [Poster presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy.

Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Pessi, I., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). The survival toolkit of the Antarctic cyanobacterium Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007 [Paper presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy.

Shi, M., Feng, G., Zhao, C., Giraldo Martin, M., & Javaux, E. (March 2018). Microfossil assemblages from the Paleoproterozoic (Changcheng Group) and Mesoproterozoic (Huailai Group) of North China [Paper presentation]. Life on Earth and beyond: emergence, survivability, and impact on the environment, Bertinoro,, Italy.

Cornet, L., Bertrand, A., Hanikenne, M., Javaux, E., Wilmotte, A., & Baurain, D. (2018). Metagenomic assembly of new (sub)polar Cyanobacteria and their associated microbiome from non-axenic cultures. Microbial Genomics, 4. doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000212

Cornet, L., Meunier, L., Van Vlierberghe, M., Léonard, R., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Misztak, A., Sirjacobs, D., Javaux, E., Philippe, H., Wilmotte, A., & Baurain, D. (2018). Consensus assessment of the contamination level of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. PLoS ONE, 13 (7), 0200323. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200323

Cornet, L., Wilmotte, A., Javaux, E., & Baurain, D. (2018). A constrained SSU-rRNA phylogeny reveals the unsequenced diversity of photosynthetic Cyanobacteria (Oxyphotobacteria). BMC Research Notes, 11 (1), 435. doi:10.1186/s13104-018-3543-y

Frémat, Y., Van Eck, S., Aerts, C., Baes, M., Berghmans, D., Bruyninx, C., Buitink, S., David, M., Defraigne, P., Dehant, V., De Keyser, J., De Rijke, S., Fuzfa, A., Groenewegen, M., Hertog, T., Javaux, E., Jorissen, A., Keppens, R., Kolenberg, K., ... Van Hoolst, T. (2018). Research activities in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Belgium. Belgian Physical Society Magazine, 1-2018, 5-19.

Javaux, E., & lepot, K. (2018). The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age. Earth-Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.10.001

Loron, C., Rainbird, R., Turner, E., Greenman, W., & Javaux, E. (2018). Evidence for ealry predation in Arctic Canada and implication for the evolution of Eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. International Palaeontological Congress 2018, Paris, France.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Sforna, M.-C., Beghin, J., Cornet, Y., Fagel, N., Fontaine, F., Baudet, D., Delvaux, D., & Javaux, E. (16 August 2017). Thermal maturity estimation of carbonaceous material from proterozoic organic-walled microfossils assemblages (DRCongo, Mauritania and Australia) by using Raman spectroscopy [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt2017's, Paris, France.

Cornet, Y., Beghin, J., Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (2017). Early eukaryotes: insights from microanalyses of proterozoic microfossils. In Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2017.

François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Baudet, D., Birck, J.-L., Storme, J.-Y., Paquette, J.-L., Fialin, M., Debaille, V., & Javaux, E. (2017). Different geochronological approaches to better constrain the diagenesis and sediment sources in the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, (Proterozoic, DRCongo). In Goldschmidt Conference Abstract, Paris, France, 2017.

Javaux, E., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Beghin, J., Cornet, Y., Loron, C., & Sforna, M.-C. (2017). Mesoproterozoic eukaryotes diversification or the miscalled “Boring Billion”. Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Beghin, J., Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S. W., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J., Storme, J.-Y., Blanpied, C., & Javaux, E. (19 July 2017). A palaeoecological model for the late Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic Atar/El Mreïti Group, Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania, northwestern Africa. Precambrian Research, 299, 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.07.016

Kleinteich, J., Golubic, S., Pessi, I. S., Velázquez, D., Storme, J.-Y., Darchambeau, F., Borges, A., Compère, P., Radtke, G., Lee, S.-J., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (July 2017). Cyanobacterial Contribution to Travertine Deposition in the Hoyoux River System, Belgium. Microbial Ecology, 74, 33-53. doi:10.1007/s00248-017-0937-7

François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, Baudet, D., Paquette, J., Fialin, M., & Javaux, E. (2017). Contributions of U-Th-Pb dating on the diagenesis and sediment sources of the Lower Group (BI) of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Democratic Republic of Congo). Precambrian Research. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.06.012

Beghin, J., Storme, J.-Y., Blanpied, C., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J., Poulton, S., & Javaux, E. (April 2017). Microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic – early Neoproterozoic Atar/El Mreïti Group, Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania, northwestern Africa. Precambrian Research, 291, 63-82. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.01.009

Lepot, K., Addad, A., Knoll, A. H., Wang, J., Troadec, D., Béché, A., & Javaux, E. (23 March 2017). Iron minerals within specific microfossil morphospecies of the 1.88Ga Gunflint Formation. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14890. doi:10.1038/ncomms14890

Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Verlaine, O., Rippka, R., Stelmach Pessi, I., Misztak, A., Joris, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Draft genome sequence of the axenic strain Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007, a cyanobacterium isolated from Lake Bruehwiler (Larsemann Hills, Antarctica). Genome Announcements, 01546-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01546-16

Cornet, Y., Beghin, J., Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (2017). Early eukaryote evolution: microanalyses of remarkable microfossils of the Late Mesoproterozoic–Early Neoproterozoic [Paper presentation]. Early Earth and ExoEarths: origin and evolution of life.

François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Baudet, D., Birck, J.-L., Storme, J.-Y., Paquette, J.-L., Fialin, M., Debaille, V., & Javaux, E. (2017). How to date a sedimentary serie: Different approaches to better constrain the diversification of early eukaryotes in Central Africa (Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Proterozoic, DRCongo). In Early Earth and ExoEarths: origin and evolution of life Varsovie 2017.

Javaux, E., & Knoll, A. H. (2017). MICROPALEONTOLOGY OF THE LOWER MESOPROTEROZOIC ROPER GROUP, AUSTRALIA, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY EUKARYOTIC EVOLUTION. Journal of Paleontology, 31. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.124

Josset, J.-L., Westall, F., Hofmann, B. A., Spray, J., Cockell, C., Kempe, S., Griffiths, A. D., De Sanctis, M. C., Colangeli, L., Koschny, D., Föllmi, K., Verrecchia, E., Diamond, L., Josset, M., Javaux, E., Esposito, F., Gunn, M., Souchon-Leitner, A. L., Bontognali, T. R. R., ... Vago, J. L. (2017). The Close-Up Imager Onboard the ESA ExoMars Rover: Objectives, Description, Operations, and Science Validation Activities. Astrobiology, 17 (6-7), 595-611. doi:10.1089/ast.2016.1546

Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (31 August 2016). Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and kerogen paleothermometry of the Proterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Kasaï, Democratic Republic of Congo) [Paper presentation]. 35ème International Geological Congres (IGC), Cape Town, South Africa.

Javaux, E. (August 2016). Evolution of biological innovations in early complex cells [Paper presentation]. International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., François, C., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (10 June 2016). A diverse and exquisitely preserved organic-walled microfossil assemblage from the Meso–Neoproterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Democratic Republic of Congo) and implications for Proterozoic biostratigraphy. Precambrian Research, 281, 166-184. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.05.017

Beghin, J., Guilbaud, R., Poulton, S., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J. J., Storme, J.-Y., Blanpied, C., & Javaux, E. (22 April 2016). Towards a palaeoecological model of the Mesoproterozoic Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania, Northwestern Africa: implications for early eukaryote evolution [Paper presentation]. EGU - 2016.

Javaux, E. (February 2016). Evolution of biological innovations in early complex cells: insights from the fossil record [Paper presentation]. Evolution of Cells, Genomes and Proteins meeting, Singapore, Singapore.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., François, C., & Javaux, E. (27 January 2016). Organic-walled microfossil assemblage and Chemostratigraphy of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Democratic Republic of Congo): Evidence for a Late Mesoproterozoic-Early Neoproterozoic age [Paper presentation]. 5th International Geologica Belgica Congress, Mons, Belgium.

François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., Paquette, J.-L., Fialin, M., Debaille, V., & Javaux, E. (2016). New geochronological history of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Proterozoic, DRC) through U-Pb and Sm-Nd dating. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Vienna, Austria, 2016.

Javaux, E. (2016). Premières traces et diversification de la vie (Chap. XI). In V. Mastrangelo (Ed.), Formation des systèmes stellaires et planétaires et conditions d’apparition de la vie (pp. 1-12). Nancy, France: AEIS EDP Sciences.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., François, C., & Javaux, E. (2016). Thermal maturity of carbonaceous material from Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo). In European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Vienna, Austria, 2016.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., François, C., & Javaux, E. (21 August 2015). Biostratigraphy constraints on chemostratigraphy of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo: Evidence for a Late Mesoproterozoic-Early Neoproterozoic [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt2015, PRAGUE, Czechia.

Storme, J.-Y., Golubic, S., Wilmotte, A., Kleinteich, J., Velazquez, D., & Javaux, E. (21 August 2015). Raman characterization of the UV-protective pigment gloeocapsin and its role in the survival of cyanobacteria [Paper presentation]. Goldschmit 2015.

Wilmotte, A., Golubic, S., Kleinteich, J., Stelmach Pessi, I., Velazquez, D., Storme, J.-Y., Darchambeau, F., Borges, A., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (03 August 2015). Contribution of cyanobacteria to the building of travertines in a calcareous stream [Poster presentation]. 15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Tubingen, Germany.

Javaux, E. (22 April 2015). Paleobiology and evolution of early eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. Yale Spring colloquium, The Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven USA, United States.

Javaux, E. (March 2015). Interpreting the record of early eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. Interpreting thWorkshop “Eukaryo-/archaeogenesis; where do we stand?”, The Company of Biologists, Wiston House, Wilton Park, Sussex, UK March 8-11th 2015, Wiston House, Wilton Park, Sussex,, United Kingdom.

Kleinteich, J., Stelmach Pessi, I., Velazquez, D., Javaux, E., Storme, J.-Y., Darchambeau, F., Borges, A., Compère, P., Golubic, S., & Wilmotte, A. (February 2015). Cyanobacteria - the constructors of travertines? [Paper presentation]. 2015 Aquatic Sciences Meeting 'Aquatic Sciences: global and regional perspectives - North meets South', Grenada, Spain.

Beghin, J., Poulton, S., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J., Storme, J.-Y., Blanpied, C., & Javaux, E. (2015). Towards a palaeoecological model of the Mesoproterozoic Taoudeni basin [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt Conference 2015.

Cornet, Y., Storme, J.-Y., Compère, P., Butterfield, N., & Javaux, E. (2015). Ultrastructural and chemical characterization of the Cryogenian acritarch Cerebrosphaera. In Goldschmidt Abstract (pp. 1).

Javaux, E., & Knoll, A. (2015). Micropaleontology of the lower Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Australia, and implications for early eukaryotic evolution [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, Czechia.

Lepot, K., Addad, A., Knoll, A., Béché, A., & Javaux, E. (2015). Specie-specific intracellular iron biomineralization in a 1.9 Ga microfossil assemblage [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, Czechia.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Bekker, A., Baudet, D., Storme, J.-Y., & Javaux, E. (16 December 2014). Biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo [Poster presentation]. Journée des jeunes chercheurs d'outre-mer, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Beghin, J., Poulton, S., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J., Blanpied, C., Houzay, J.-P., Storme, J.-Y., & Javaux, E. (03 November 2014). BIODIVERSITY AND REDOX CONDITIONS THROUGH THE PROTEROZOIC TAOUDENI BASIN OF MAURITANIA [Paper presentation]. Astrobiology FNRS Contact Group & IAP PLANET TOPERS Annual Meeting 2014.

Cornet, L., Javaux, E., Wilmotte, A., Hervé, P., & Baurain, D. (03 November 2014). A Phylogenomic analysis of the origin of plastids [Paper presentation]. IUAP Planet TOPERS meeting, Liège, Belgium.

Beghin, J., Poulton, S., Gueneli, N., Brocks, J., Storme, J.-Y., Blanpied, C., Houzay, J.-P., & Javaux, E. (September 2014). BIODIVERSITY AND REDOX CONDITIONS THROUGH THE PROTEROZOIC TAOUDENI BASIN OF MAURITANIA [Paper presentation]. 4th International Palaeontological Congress.

Beghin, J., Javaux, E., Houzay, J.-P. (Other coll.), & Blanpied, C. (Other coll.). (27 April 2014). Microfossils’ diversity from the Proterozoic Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania [Paper presentation]. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 Vienna, Vienne, Austria.

Kabamba Baludikay, B., Bekker, A., Baudet, D., Asael, D., Storme, J.-Y., & Javaux, E. (2014). Micropaleontology and chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 16 (EGU2014).

Dehant, V., Van Hoolst, T., Breuer, D., Claeys, P., Debaille, V., De Keyser, J., Javaux, E., Goderis, S., Karatekin, O., Mattielli, N., Noack, L., Spohn, T., Vandaele, A. C., Vanhaecke, F., & Wilquet, V. (April 2013). Planet TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of Their Reservoirs. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 15, 2013-4424.

Javaux, E., Asael, D., Bekker, A., Debaille, V., Derenne., S., Hofmann, A., Mattielli, N., & Poulton, S. (2013). Identifying early Earth microfossils in unsilicified sediments. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 15, 2013-7748-2.

Javaux, E. (August 2012). The Proterozoic record of early eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. IGC International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia.

Javaux, E. (2012). En quête de signatures de vie. Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Javaux, E. (2012). les débuts de la vie sur la terre et ailleurs? [Paper presentation]. Conférence de la Société Astromique de Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Javaux, E. (2012). Les débuts de la vie sur Terre, et ailleurs ? Ciel (Le), p. 168-169.

Josset, J.-L., Westall, F., Hofmann, B. A., Spray, J. G., Cockell, C., Kempe, S., Griffiths, A. D., De Sanctis, M. C., Colangeli, L., Koschny, D., Pullan, D., Föllmi, K., Diamond, L., Javaux, E., Esposito, F., & Barnes, D. (April 2012). CLUPI, a high-performance imaging system on the ESA-NASA rover of the 2018 ExoMars mission to discover biofabrics on Mars [Paper presentation]. EGU European geoscience Union annual meeting, Vienna, Austria.

Beghin, J., Demoulin, A., Gerrienne, P., Javaux, E., & Streel, M. (01 March 2012). A climate model from 80 AD to 1350 AD for the Hautes Fagnes plateau (Belgium), based on pollen grains, testate amoebae and humification analyses. Application of the model to Subatlantic palaeolandslides in the Pays de Herve (eastern Belgium) [Paper presentation]. Belqua, Brussels, Belgium.

Javaux, E. (21 October 2011). Macroevolution in early eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. Enigmas in the evolution of Life: Symposium of the research theme “Astrobiology: Past, Present, and Future”, Lund, Sweden.

Josset, J. L., Westall, F., Hofmann, B. A., Spray, Cockell, C., kempe, S., Griffiths, Coradini, Colangeli, Koschny, Pullan, Föllmi, Diamond, Josset, M., Javaux, E., & Esposito. (08 April 2011). CLUPI: the High-Performance Close-up Camera System on board the 2018 ExoMars Rover [Paper presentation]. European Geoscience Union EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Lepot, K., Deremiens, Namsaraev, Z., Compère, P., Gérard, E., Verleyen, E., Tavernier, Hodgson, Wilmotte, A., & Javaux, E. (07 April 2011). Organo-mineral imprints in fossil cyanobacterial mats of an Antarctic lake [Poster presentation]. European Geoscience Union EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Javaux, E. (04 April 2011). Macroevolution in early eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. European Geoscience Union EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Javaux, E. (2011). origines de la vie: où, quand, comment? [Paper presentation]. Printemps des Sciences 2011, Liège sart-Tilman, Belgium.

Javaux, E. (08 December 2010). Traces of early life in 3.2 Ga old mud: an analog for the search for life on Mars [Paper presentation]. NFSR Contact Group workshop "Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life"", Brussels, Belgium.

Javaux, E., Marshall, C., & Bekker, A. (30 November 2010). La vie à 3.2 milliards d'années [Paper presentation]. Réunion du groupe de contact FNRS PPMB, Liège, Belgium.

Court-Picon, M., Streel, M., Luthers, C., De Vleeschouwer, F., Mauquoy, D., Fagel, N., Gerrienne, P., Javaux, E., Damblon, F., Le Roux, G., Piotrowska, N., Sikorskie, J., Allan, M., Mattielli, N., Brack, J., Wastiaux, C., Hindryckx, M.-N., & Leclercq, L. (2010). Climatic and anthropogenic palaeoenvironmental changes over the last 1500 years in Hautes-Fagnes (East Belgium): the high-resolution multiproxy record of the Misten peat bog [Paper presentation]. EPPC, Budapest, Hungary.

De Vleeschouwer, F., Fagel, N., Mauquoy, D., Streel, M., Luthers, C., Damblon, F., Court-Picon, M., Le Roux, G., Gerrienne, P., Javaux, E., & Leclercq, L. (2010). Multiproxy, multicore palaeoenvironmental study during the last millennium in the Misten peat bog (Hautes Fagnes, East Belgium) [Paper presentation]. BELQUA.

Javaux, E. (2009). Evolution de la vie pendant les quatre premiers milliards d’années. Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 79, 354-355.

Javaux, E. (2008). Astrobiology : origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe. CAPAS Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Sciences.

Javaux, E. (2007). Patterns of diversification in early eukaryotes. In P. Steemans & E. Javaux, Recent advances in palynology (pp. 38-42).

Steemans, P., & Javaux, E. (2007). Recent advances in palynology. Carnets de Géologie, Memoir 2007/01, 1-73.

Mix, L. J., Armstrong, J. C., Mandell, A. M., Mosier, A. C., Raymond, J., Raymond, S. N., Stewart, F. J., von Braun, K., Zhaxybayeva, O., Billings, L., Cameron, V., Claire, M., Dick, G. J., Domagal-Goldman, S. D., Javaux, E., Johnson, O. J., Laws, C., Race, M. S., Rask, J., ... Zerella, M. (2006). The astrobiology primer: An outline of general knowledge - Version 1, 2006. Astrobiology, 6 (5), 735-813. doi:10.1089/ast.2006.6.735

Steemans, P., & Javaux, E. (Eds.). (2005). Pre-Cambrian to Palaeozoic Palaeopalynology and Palaeobotany. Carnets de Géologie, Mémoir 2005/02, 1-77.