The year 2024 was scientifically great. Probably the most satisfying was the publication of Chloé Truong’s three articles on the role of pyrite minerals in the adaptation of hyperthermophilic microorganisms to their highly mineralized hydrothermal environment. And the best news was the award of the Haüy-Lacroix Mineralogy Prize from the Société Française de Minéralogie Cristallographie to Chloé’s thesis work.
The 3 Chloé’s articles
Truong, Chloé, Sylvain Bernard, Pierre Le Pape, Guillaume Morin, Camille Baya, Pauline Merrot, Aurore Gorlas, and François Guyot. « Production of carbon-containing pyrite spherules induced by hyperthermophilic Thermococcales: a biosignature? » Frontiers in Microbiology 14 (2023): 1145781. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1145781.
Truong, Chloé, Sylvain Bernard, François Baudin, Aurore Gorlas, and François Guyot. « Carbon-Containing Pyrite Spherules: Mineral Biosignatures in Black Smokers? » European Journal of Mineralogy 36, 5 (2024): 813‑30. https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-813-2024.
Truong, C., S. Bernard, A. Gorlas, and F. Guyot. « Abiotic syntheses of pyrite: clues to assess the biogenicity of pyrite spherules ». Geochemical Perspectives Letters 32 (2024): 27‑33. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2438.
François Guyot 