# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 11 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 11 results [### The origin and rise of complex life: integrating models, geochemical and palaeontological data ](/news/origin-and-rise-complex-life-integrating-models-geochemical-and-palaeontological) September 09, 2019 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... ![Cloudina](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/complex-life-dm.jpg?itok=XIdRPJ52) [### 2019 Chemical Oceanography GRC Conference ](/news/2019-chemical-oceanography-grc-conference) June 18, 2019 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... ![Gordon 2018](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/06e4413da661e0c1b235ccf6ed0f4199_400x400.jpg?itok=jcoI7Adg) [### Geobiology 2019 ](/news/geobiology-2019) June 09, 2019 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... ![Geobiology Society](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/geobiology_logo.png?itok=RTQE1rX8) [### 2018 NE Geobiology Symposium ](/news/ne-geobiology-symposium-2018) February 04, 2018 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. ![NE Geobio Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/ne_geobio_logo.png?itok=boWSfSX2) [### Geobiology Gordon Research Conference 2018 ](/news/geobiology-gordon-research-conference-2018) September 12, 2017 Applicaiton deadline is December 24, 2017--see here for meeting details. ![Gordon 2018](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/06e4413da661e0c1b235ccf6ed0f4199_400x400.jpg?itok=jcoI7Adg) [### Geobiology 2017 ](/news/geobiology-2017) November 22, 2016 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... ![lake-louise-10115-smalltabletretina.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/lake-louise-10115-smalltabletretina.jpg?itok=7Cwxqvfv) [### 2016 Northeastern Geobiology Symposium ](/news/2016-northeastern-geobiology-symposium) April 29, 2016 Mark your calendars! Please see here for program details, registration/abstract submission deadlines, etc. ![flyer.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/flyer.png?itok=Fh0wjEfV) [### New Publications! ](/news/new-publications) November 30, 2015 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... description [### Harvard Gazette ](/news/2014/10/harvard-gazette) October 01, 2014 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. ![031412_johnston_090_605.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/031412_johnston_090_605.jpg?itok=WpCxd2lp) [### MIT Fall 2014 Soap Box series: Why Life Got Big ](/news/fall-2014-soap-box-series) October 21, 2014 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... ![soapbox_flyer_oct21.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/soapbox_flyer_oct21_0.png?itok=yFiyMWw5) [### MIT Fall 2014 Soapbox Series: How to Make Life and Influence Planets ](/news/mit-fall-2014-soapbox-series) October 07, 2014 Co-sponsored by the NASA Astrobiology Institute at MIT. (Featuring Prof. Ann Pearson and Prof. Francis Macdonald) Tuesday, 10/7: 6:00-7:30pm Origins of Life on Earth - [ Video] Discover what we can we infer about the origin of life from the genomes of... ![screen_shot_2014-11-25_at_10.57.00_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum8991/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/johnstonlab/files/screen_shot_2014-11-25_at_10.57.00_am.png?itok=YmsT3KCB)