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![]() ![]() | François, C., Baludikay, B. K., Debaille, V., Birck, J. L., Limmois, D., Jourdan, F., Baudet, D., Paquette, J. L., Delvaux, D., & Javaux, E. (February 2023). Multi-method dating constrains the diversification of early eukaryotes in the Proterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup of the D.R.Congo and the geological evolution of the Congo Basin. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 198, 104785. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104785 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Lara, Y., Mc Cann, A., Malherbe, C., François, C., Demoulin, C., Sforna, M.-C., Eppe, G., De Pauw, E., Wilmotte, A., Jacques, P., & Javaux, E. (2022). Characterization of the Halochromic Gloeocapsin Pigment, a Cyanobacterial Biosignature for Paleobiology and Astrobiology. Astrobiology. doi:10.1089/ast.2021.0061 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Sforna, M.-C., Loron, C., Demoulin, C., François, C., Cornet, Y., Lara, Y., Grolimund, D., Fereirra Sanchez, D., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Addad, A., Fadel, A., Compère, P., Baudet, D., Brocks, J., & Javaux, E. (2022). Intracellular bound chlorophyll residues identify 1 Gyr-old fossils as eukaryotic algae. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27810-7 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Lara, Y., Mc Cann, A., Malherbe, C., François, C., Demoulin, C., Sforna, M.-C., Eppe, G., De Pauw, E., Wilmotte, A., Jacques, P., & Javaux, E. (2021). UV-screening pigment enabling ancient photosynthesis [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2021, Lyon, France. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Sforna, M.-C., Loron, C., Demoulin, C., François, C., Cornet, Y., Lara, Y., Grolimund, D., Ferreira Sanchez, D., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Addad, A., Fadel, A., Compère, P., Brocks, J., & Javaux, E. (2021). In situ detection of bound Ni-tetrapyrrole moieties in ~1 Gyr-old eukaryote microfossil suggesting its phototrophy [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2021. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Sforna, M.-C., Loron, C., Demoulin, C., François, C., Cornet, Y., Lara, Y., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (28 October 2020). Evidence of photosynthesis showed by Ni-Porphyrin preservation in ~1 Gyr-old Eukaryotes [Paper presentation]. GSA 2020. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Sforna, M.-C., Loron, C., Demoulin, C., François, C., Cornet, Y., Lara, Y., Grolimund, D., Sanchez Ferreira, D., Medjoubi, K., Somogyi, A., Addad, A., Fadel, A., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (2020). Nickel as tracer of oxygenic phototrophy in the fossil record [Paper presentation]. Goldschmidt 2020. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
Demoulin, C., Lara, Y., François, C., & Javaux, E. (2018). Biosignatures of modern and fossil cyanobacteria [Paper presentation]. Groupe de Contact Astrobiologie, Liège, Belgium. |
![]() ![]() | Baludikay, B. K., 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 reflectance on isolated Proterozoic microfossils: A fast and robust tool to assess thermal maturity of sedimentary basins [Poster presentation]. Gordon Conference Geobiology. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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., 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 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | François, C., de Sigoyer, J., Pubellier, M., Bailly, V., Cocherie, A., & Ringenbach, J.-C. (2017). Quick HP & HT subduction in an ultra-recent geodynamic context: the Wandamen peninsula (Western Papua). In European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 Vienna, Austria, 2017. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | François, C., de Sigoyer, J., Pubellier, M., Bailly, V., Cocherie, A., & Ringenbach, J.-C. (December 2016). Short-lived subduction and exhumation in Western Papua (Wandamen peninsula): Co-existence of HP and HT metamorphic rocks in a young geodynamic setting. Lithos, 266-267, 44-63. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.09.030 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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 ![]() |
![]() ![]() | Dehant, V., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Beghin, J., Breuer, D., Claeys, P., Cornet, Y., Cornet, L., Debaille, V., EL Atrassi, F., François, C., De Keyser, J., Gillman, C., Goderis, S., Hidaka, Y., Honing, D., Hublet, G., Javaux, E., Karatekin, O., Maes, L., ... Wilquet, V. (June 2016). PLANET TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their ReservoirS. Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, DOI 10.1007/s11084-016-9488. doi:10.1007/s11084-016-9488-z ![]() |
Cornet, Y., Beghin, J., Kabamba Baludikay, B., François, C., Storme, J.-Y., Compère, P., & Javaux, E. (2016). Microanalyzes of remarkable microfossils of the Late Mesoproterozoic–Early Neoproterozoic. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016 Vienna, Austria, 2016. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., Paquette, J.-L., Fialin, M., Debaille, V., Birck, J.-L., & Javaux, E. (2016). Multi-dating approaches applied to the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Proterozoic, DRCongo) to constrain the diversification of early eukaryotes in Central Africa. In IGC 2016. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | 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. ![]() |
François, C., Kabamba Baludikay, B., Storme, J.-Y., Baudet, D., & Javaux, E. (2015). Geochronological constraints on the diagenesis of the Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Goldschmidt Conference Abstract, Prague, CZ, 2015. ![]() |
Caquineau, T., Paquette, J. L., François, C., Van Kranendonk, M., & Philippot, P. (2015). U-Pb monazite dating of the Turee Creek Group sedimentary succession: implications on the rise of oxygen and glacial events. In Goldschmidt Conference Abstract, Prague, CZ, 2015. ![]() |
François, C., Rey, P., Philippot, P., & Rubatto, D. (2014). From the surface to the Moho and back in a few Myrs: particle's flow path in a sagduction system. In Geological Society of Australia. ![]() |
![]() ![]() | François, C., Philippot, P., Rey, P., & Rubatto, D. (2014). Burial and exhumation during Archean sagduction in the East Pilbara GraniteGreenstone Terrane. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. ![]() |
François, C., Philippot, P., Rey, P., Rubatto, D., & Moyen, J. F. (2013). Archean geodynamic: Fingerprinting sagduction vs subduction processes. In C. François, Goldschmidt Conference Abstract, Florence, Italy, 2013. ![]() |
François, C., Philippot, P., & Rey, P. (2012). Formation and exhumation mechanisms of high-grade rocks: Sagduction and Subduction processes during the Archean. In C. François, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 Vienna, Austria, 2012 (pp. 5136). ![]() |
de Sigoyer, J., François, C., Cocherie, A., Pubellier, M., Bailly, V., & Ringenbach, J. C. (2011). Very young and fast exhumation, between 8 and 5 Ma, for the high pressure metasediments of Lengguru prism,W-Papua. In Geophysical Research Abstracts. ![]() |