Johnston Lab news

Sept 9-10, The Royal Society, London cientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Rachel Wood, Professor Philip Donoghue, Professor Simon Poulton, Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Alex Liu Understanding of the triggers and timing of the rise of complex...

Discovering Chemical Processes and Mechanisms in a Changing Ocean (July 14 - 19, 2019) The study of ocean chemistry is central to the understanding of global biogeochemical cycling and human sustainability. Since this GRC conference began 50 years ago...

2nd Geobiology Society Conference, June 9-13 (2019) at Banff, Canada Following a very successful "Geobiology 2017" with 200 registrants, the Geobiology Society will again host a 3-day meeting at the Banff Conference Center. The dates for the conference...

NE Geobiology Symposium 2018 will be hosted on April 7, 2018 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. The registration deadline is March 9.

Applicaiton deadline is December 24, 2017--see here for meeting details.

1st Geobiology Society Conference, June 11-14, 2017 at Banff, Canada Following three very successful International Geobiology Conferences held in Wuhan (2010, 2012, 2014) and the recent Geobiology Gordon Research Conference in Galveston (2016), the newly...

Mark your calendars! Please see here for program details, registration/abstract submission deadlines, etc.

After a lot of hard years in the lab, and in close collaboration with Ines Pereira’s group at the ITQB in Portugal, we are happy to report a pair of papers describing 1) the role of DsrC in the operation of microbial sulfate reduction, and 2) the isotopic...

A read on seawater sulfate New tool could bring clearer view of oxygen minimum zones A tool developed by Professor David Johnston and colleagues might help shed light on biogeochemical cycling in oxygen minimum zones located in the ocean.

Professor David Johnston and David Gold - Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT presenting at MIT Fall 2014 Soap Box: "Why Life Got Big:" for much of the earth's history, microbes were the only living organisms on the planet. What spurred the...