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Journal articles

Mansor M, Duverger A, Pasquier V,  Gorlas A, Guyot F, Berg J S, Marin-Carbonne J, Cosmidis J, Picard A, Biogenic pyrite and metastable iron sulfides: Emerging formation pathways and geological and societal relevance, Geo-Bio Interfaces (2025) doi.org/10.1180/gbi.2024.9

Morton-Hayward A L, Anderson R P, Saupe E E, Larson G, Cosmidis J, Human brains preserve in diverse environments for at least 12 000 years, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2024) doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2606

Cosmidis J, Will tomorrow’s mineral materials be grown? Microbial Biotechnology (2023) doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14298

Stanton C, Barnes B, Kump Lee R., Cosmidis J, A re-examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA),
Geobiology (2023) doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12534

Lau G, Trivedi C, Grasby S, Spear J, Cosmidis J, Templeton A, Sulfur-and Iron-Rich Mineralogical Features Preserved in Permafrost in the Canadian High Arctic: Analogues for the Astrobiological Exploration of Mars, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences (2022) doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.825019

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Why do microbes make minerals? Compte Rendus Geosciences, 354, 1-39 (2022) doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.107

McMahon S, Cosmidis J, False Biosignatures on Mars: Anticipating Ambiguity, Journal of the Geological Society (2021) doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-050

Cron B, Macalady J. L., Cosmidis J, Organic stabilization of extracellular elemental sulfur in a Sulfurovum-rich biofilm: a new role for EPS?, Frontiers in Microbiology (2021) doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.720101

Nims C, Lafond J, Alleon J, Templeton A, Cosmidis J, Organic biomorphs may be better preserved than microorganisms in early Earth sediments. Geology (2021) doi.org/10.1130/G48152.1

 Bralower T, Cosmidis J, Fantle M.S., Lowery C.M. et al., The Habitat of the Nascent Chicxulub Crater, AGU Advances (2020) doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000208

 Bralower T, Cosmidis J, Heaney PJ, Kump LR, et al., Origin of a global carbonate layer deposited in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2020) doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116476
 
Cron B, Henri P, Chan C, Macalady J, Cosmidis J, Elemental sulfur formation by Sulfuricurvum kujiense is mediated by extracellular organic compounds, Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2710 (2019) doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02710
 
Picard A, Gartman A, Cosmidis J, Obst M, Vidoudez C, Clarke DR, Girgis PR, Authigenic iron sulfide minerals preserve organic carbon in anoxic environments, Chemical Geology, 530, 119343 (2019) doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119343
 
Nims C, Cron B, Wetherington M, Macalady J, Cosmidis J, Low frequency Raman Spectroscopy for micron-scale and in vivo characterization of elemental sulfur in microbial samples, Nature Scientific Reports, 9, 7971 (2019) doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44353-6

Cosmidis J, Nims C, Diercks D, Templeton A, Formation and stabilization of elemental sulfur through organomineralization, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 247, 59–82 (2019) doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.025

Johnson J E, Muhling J R, Cosmidis J, Rasmussen B, Templeton A S, Low-Fe(III) Greenalite Was a Primary Mineral from Neoarchean Oceans, Geophysical Research Letters (2018) doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076311

Skouri-Panet  F, Benzerara K, Cosmidis J, Férard C, Caumes G, De Luca G, Heuilin T, Duprat E, In Vitro and in Silico Evidence of Phosphatase Diversity in the Biomineralizing Bacterium Ramlibacter tataouinensis, Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 2592 (2018) doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02592

Lau G, Cosmidis J, Grasby S, Trivedi C, Spear J, Templeton A, Low-temperature formation and stabilization of rare allotropes of cyclooctasulfur (β-S8 and γ-S8) in the presence of organic carbon at a sulfur-rich glacial site in the Canadian High Arctic, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2017) doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.036

Cosmidis J, Templeton A, Self-assembly of biomorphic carbon/sulfur microstructures in sulfidic environments, Nature Communications, 7, 12812 (2016) doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12812

Li J, Margaret-Oliver I, Cam N, Boudier T, Blondeau M, Leroy E, Cosmidis J, Skouri-Panet F, Guigner J-M, Ferard C, Poinsot M, Moreira D, Lopez-Garcia P, Cassier-Chauvat C, Chauvat F, Benzerara K, Biomineralization patterns of intracellular carbonatogenesis in cyanobacteria: Molecular hypotheses, Minerals
(2016) doi.org/10.3390/min6010010

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Guyot F, Skouri-Panet F, Duprat E, Férard C, Guigner J-M, Babonneau F, Coehlo C, Calcium-phosphate biomineralization induced by alkaline phosphatase activity in Escherichia coli: localization, kinetics and potential signatures in the fossil record, Frontiers in Earth Science (2015) doi.org/10.3389/feart.2015.00084

Jain R, Seder-Colomina M, Jordan N, Dessi P, Cosmidis J, van Hullebusch E, Weiss S, Farges F, Lens P, Entrapped elemental selenium nanoparticles affect physicochemical properties of selenium fed activated sludge, Journal of hazardous materials (2015) doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.03.043

Zatoń M, Niedźwiedzki G, Marynowski L, Benzerara K, Pott C, Cosmidis J, Krzykawski T,   Filipiak P, Coprolites of Late Triassic carnivorous vertebrates from Poland: An integrative approach, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (2015) doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.04.009

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Nassif N, Tyliszczak T, Bourdelle F, Characterization of Ca-phosphate biological materials by Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM) at the Ca L2,3-, P L2,3- and C K-edges, Acta Biomaterialia (2015) doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2014.10.003

Li J, Bernard S, Benzerara K, Beyssac O, Allard T, Cosmidis J, Moussou J, Impact of biomineralization on the preservation of microorganisms during fossilization: An experimental perspective, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2014) doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.031

Benzerara K, Skouri-Panet F, Li J,  Ferard C,  Gugger  M,  Laurent T, Couradeau E,  Ragon M, Cosmidis J, Menguy N, Margaret-Oliver I, Tavera R, Lopez-Garcia P, Moreira D, Intracellular Ca-carbonate biomineralization is widespread in cyanobacteria, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403510111

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Morin G, Busigny V, Jézéquel D, et al., Biomineralization of iron phosphates in the anoxic water column of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France), Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta (2014) doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.10.037

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Menguy N, Arning E, Microscopy evidence of bacterial microfossils in phosphorite crusts of the Peruvian shelf: implications for phosphogenesis mechanisms, Chemical Geology (2013) doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.09.009

Baumgartner J, Morin G, Menguy N, Perez Gonzalez T, Widdrat M, Cosmidis J, Faivre D, Magnetotactic bacteria form magnetite from a phosphate-rich ferric hydroxide via nanometric ferric (hydr)oxide intermediates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2013) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1307119110

Bourdelle F, Benzerara K, Beyssac O, Cosmidis J, Neuville D R, Brown G E Jr., Paineau E, Quantification of the ferric/ferrous iron ratio in silicates by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy at the Fe L2,3 edges, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2013) doi.org/10.1007/s00410-013-0883-4

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Gheerbrant E, Estève I, Bouya B and Amaghzaz M, Nanometer scale characterization of exceptionally preserved bacterial fossils in Paleocene phosphorites from Ouled Abdoun (Morocco), Geobiology (2013) doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12022
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Book chapters

Busigny V, Jézéquel D, Cosmidis J, Viollier E, Benzerara K, Planavsky N, Albéric P, Lebeau O, Sarazin G and Michard G, The Iron Wheel in Lac Pavin: Interaction with Phosphorus Cycle. In: Lake Pavin: History, biogeochemistry, and sedimentology of a deep meromictic maar lake, T Sime-Ngando, P Boivin, E Chapron, D Jezequel, and M Meybeck (eds.), Springer International Publishing, pp. 205–220 (2016)

Cosmidis J, Benzerara K, Soft X-ray Scanning Transmission Micro-Spectroscopy, In: Biomineralization Sourcebook: Characterization of Biominerals and Biomimetic Materials, Laurie Gower and Elaine DiMasi (eds.), Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 115–133 (2014)
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Preprints (not peer-reviewed)

Cosmidis J, O’Reilly S, Ellison E T, Crispin K, Diercks D, Templeton A, Carbonate polymorphism controlled by microbial iron redox dynamics at a natural CO2 leakage site (Crystal Geyser, Utah), EarthArXiv (2021) eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2523/
 
Cron B, Macalady J L, Cosmidis J, Organic stabilization of extracellular elemental sulfur in a Sulfurovum-rich biofilm: a new role for EPS? BioRXiv (2021) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.03.446708v2
 
Stanton C, Cosmidis J, Kump L R, A re-examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA), EarthArXiv (2021) eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2335/
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Patents.

​Cosmidis J and Templeton A, “Sulfur-Carbon Tubes and/or Spheres, and Methods of Making Same”, US Patent No. 10790500 (2020)
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