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A Talk on Microbial Transformation of the Elements: From Contaminants to Resources (Hybrid)

May 06, 2026

11.00 AM - 12.30 PM

Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya

Hello Members

We are delighted to invite you to join the following Technical Talk (Hybrid) organised by the Quaternary and Marine Geology Working Group, GSM and Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya

Title: Microbial Transformation of the Elements: From Contaminants to Resources

Speaker: Dr. Muammar Mansor (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

Date: 6 May 2026 (Wednesday)

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Venue: Department of Geology, Universiti Malaya

Platform: Zoom

Join via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85141276021...

Meeting ID: 851 4127 6021

Passcode: 298436

We look forward to your participation. See you there!

A Talk on Microbial Transformation of the Elements: From Contaminants to Resources (Hybrid)

Highlights

Azam, Mustapha, & Hakimi (2024) Organic geochemical and petrological investigations of the upper miocene bongaya formation in the pitas, onshore sabah basin, and its relevance for hydrocarbon potential.

Burhanuddin & Hassan (2024) Sedimentary facies analysis of a thin-bed-dominated turbidite succession in the Miocene Temburong Formation, Kampung Bebuloh, Labuan Island, Malaysia

Lin et al. (2024) Deconvolving geochemical micro-spatial variability of an unconsolidated aquifer through chemometric and geostatistical techniques

Yu et al. (2023) Triassic felsic magmatism in SE Peninsular Malaysia: Petrogenesis and geodynamic implications for the Eastern Paleotethyan tectonic transition

Chakraborty et al. (2023) Neogene biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of Andaman and Nicobar Basin: A reappraisal

Dey et al. (2023) Rhodolith-forming coralline red algae in the CaCO3 biofactory – A case study from the Serravallian of tropical northeastern Indian Ocean

Quek et al. (2023) Southwest Borneo, an autochthonous Panges-Eurasia assembly proxy: Insights from detrital zircon records

Hatem et al. (2023) Preliminary study of crude oils from Shabwah depression in the Central Sab'atayn Basin (Yemen): Revealing oil-oil correlation with organic matter input and maturity based on geochemical properties of maltene and asphaltene fractions

Geochemical characteristics of the Rajmahal coals in Dhulia North Block, Eastern India: implication to their utilization and environment

Geochemistry and organic petrology of the bituminite shales from the Kapurdi mine, Rajasthan of NW India: implications for waxy oil generation potential

Distribution, mode of occurrence, and significance of rare-earth elements in coal from Samaleswari open cast coal blocks, Odisha, India with their provenance and paleodepositional environment

Organic matter input, paleovegetation and paleoclimate of Upper Cretaceous lignite from Maiganga coalfield, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria: Insights from biomarkers and stable isotopes

Oil generation and expulsion modeling of the syn-rift Salif oil-source rock in the Tihamah Basin, Yemeni Red Sea: Implications for shale oil exploration

Multiple stages of continental rifting in Eastern Peninsular Malaysia: new insights from Jurassic–Cretaceous granitoids

Paleodepositional environment and hydrocarbon generation potential of the Paleogene lignite in the Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, India

A new fusulinid species from the early Permian of northwestern Peninsular Malaysia: Evidence of the Artinskian warming event in the eastern Peri-Gondwanan Sibumasu Block

Exceptional Fluorite Crystals from a 2023 Find Near Wulaga, Heilongjiang Province, China

Early publications on the stratigraphy of the northern Pennines at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first long stratigraphic sections

Compound osteoderms preserved in amber reveal the oldest known skink

An early specimen of ‘AMMONITES Walcotii’ and Sowerby’s ‘Mineral Conchology’

Nature and tectonic setting of the Paleotethyan giant igneous belt in Southeast Asia

Provenance of Cretaceous-Miocene sediments in Borneo: Implications for paleogeographic patterns and tectonic evolution

Pleistocene murid rodent fossils from Semadong Cave in northern Peninsular Malaysia: taxonomic, zoogeographic, and environmental implications

Nature and tectonic setting of the Paleotethyan giant igneous belt in Southeast Asia