Publications

2026

Loron, C.C., Cooper, L.M., McMahon, S., Jordan, S.F., Gromov, A.V., Humpage, M., Rodgers, N., Pichevin, L., Vondracek, H., Alexander, R. and Rodriguez Dzul, E. (2026). Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi. Science advances, 12(4). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aec6277

2024

Jordan, S.F.*, van Zuilen, M.A., Rouillard, J. et al. (2024) Prebiotic membrane structures mimic the morphology of alleged early traces of life on Earth. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 234. doi: 10.1038/s43247-024-01372-0
Neveu, M., Quinn, R., Barge, L.M., Craft, K.L., German, C.R., Getty, S., Jordan, S.F., et al. (2024) Future of the search for life: workshop report. Astrobiology, 114-129. doi: 10.1089/ast.2022.0158

2023

Grey, A., Costeira, R., Lorenzo, E., O’Kane, S., McCaul, M.V., McCarthy, T., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., and Kelleher, B.P. (2023) Geochemical properties of blue carbon sediments through an elevation gradient: study of an anthropogenically impacted coastal lagoon. Biogeochemistry, 162, 381-408. doi: 10.1007/s10533-022-00974-0
Grey, A., Costeira, R., Lorenzo, E., O’Kane, S., McCaul, M.V., McCarthy, T., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., and Kelleher, B.P. (2023) Biogeochemical properties of blue carbon sediments influence the distribution and monomer composition of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). Biogeochemistry, 359, 1-22. doi: 10.1007/s10533-022-01008-5

2022

Pinna, S., Kunz, C., Halpern, A., Harrison, S.A., Jordan, S.F., Ward, J., Werner, F., and Lane, N. (2022) A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency. PLOS Biology, 20(10): e3001437. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001437
Camprubi, E., Harrison, S.A., Jordan, S.F., Bonnel, J., Pinna, S., and Lane, N. (2022) Do soluble phosphates direct the formose reaction towards pentose sugars? Astrobiology, 22(8), 981-991. doi:10.1089/ast.2021.0125
McMahon, S. and Jordan, S.F. (2022) A fundamental limit to the search for the oldest fossils. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, 832-834. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01777-0

2021

Jordan, S.F., Ioannou, I., Rammu, H., Halpern, A., Bogart, L.K., Vasiliadou, R., Ahn, M., Vasiliadou, R., Christodoulou, J., Maréchal, A., and Lane, N. (2021) Spontaneous assembly of redox-active iron-sulfur clusters at low concentrations of cysteine. Nature Communications, 12, 5925. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26158-2
McCaul, M.V., Magni, P., Jordan, S.F., McNamara, E., Satta, A., Diamond, D., and Ribotti, A. (2021) Nutrient Analysis in Arctic Waters using a Portable Sensing Platform. Frontiers in Sensors, 2, 7 doi:10.3389/fsens.2021.711592
O’Reilly S.S., Jordan, S.F., Monteys, X., Simpson, A., Allen, C.C.R., Szpak, M., Murphy, B.T., McCarron, S.S., Soong, R., Wu, B., Jenne, A., and Kellher, B.P. (2021) Production of methane and gaseous compounds by surface microbial activity in a small pockmark field, Dunmanus Bay, Ireland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 255, 107340. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107340

2019

Jordan, S.F., Rammu, H., Zheludev, I.V., Hartley, A.M., Maréchal, A., and Lane, N. (2019) Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3, 1705-1714. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1015-y
Jordan, S.F.*, Nee, E., and Lane, N. (2019) Isoprenoids enhance the stability of fatty acid membranes at the emergence of life potentially leading to an early lipid divide, Interface Focus, 9, 20190067. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0067
Vasiliadou, R., Dimov, N., Szita, N., Jordan, S.F., and Lane, N. (2019) Possible mechanisms of CO₂ reduction by H₂ via prebiotic vectorial chemistry, Interface Focus, 9, 20190073. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0073
Jordan, S.F., O’Reilly, S.S., Praeg, D., Dove, D., Facchin, L., Romeo, R., Thebaudeau, B., Scott, G., Murphy, B.T., McCarron, S., and Kelleher, B.P. (2019). Geophysical and geochemical analysis of shallow gas and an associated pockmark field in Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 225, 106232. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2019.05.014

2017

Kelleher B.P., Flanagan, P.V., Hart, K.M., Simpson, A.J., Oppenheimer, S.F., Murphy, B.T., O’Reilly, S.S., Jordan, S.F., Grey, A., Ibrahim, A., and Allen, C.C.R. (2017) Large peturbations in CO₂ flux and subsequent chemosynthesis are induced in agricultural soil by the addition of elemental sulfur, Scientific Reports, 7, 4732. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04934-9
Camprubi, E., Jordan, S.F., Vasiliadou, R., and Lane, N. (2017) Iron catalysis at the origin of life, IUBMB Life, 69 (6), 373-381. doi:10.1002/iub.1632.
Jordan, S.F., Murphy, B.T., O’Reilly, S.S., Doyle, K.P., Williams, M.D., Grey, A., Lee, S., McCaul, M.V., and Kelleher, B.P. (2017) Mid-Holocene climate change and landscape formation in Ireland: Evidence from a geochemical investigation of a coastal ombrotrophic peat bog, Organic Geochemistry, 109, 67-76. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.02.004.

2016

Murphy, B.T., O’Reilly, S.S., Monteys, X., Reid, B.F., Szpak, M.T., McCaul, M. V., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., and Kelleher, B.P. (2016). The occurrence of PAHs and faecal sterols in Dublin Bay and their influence on sedimentary microbial communities. Marine Pollution Buletin, 106 (1-2), 215-224. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.02.066.
Mahaney, W.C., Allen, C.C.R., Pentlavalli, P., Kulakova, A., Young, J.M., Dirszowsky, R.W., West, A., Kelleher, B., Jordan, S., Pulleyblank, C., O’Reilly, S., Murphy, B.T., Lasberg, K., Somelar, P., Garneau, M., Finkelstein, S.A., Sobol, M.K., Kalm, V., Costa, P.J.M., Hancock, R.G. V, Hart, K.M., Tricart, P., Barendregt, R.W., Bunch, T.E., and Milner, M.W. (2016) Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal’s Invasion of Italy, I: History and Geological Reconstruction. Archaeometry, 59, 164– 178. doi:10.1111/arcm.12231.
Mahaney, W.C., Allen, C.C.R., Pentlavalli, P., Kulakova, A., Young, J.M., Dirszowsky, R.W., West, A., Kelleher, B., Jordan, S., Pulleyblank, C., O’Reilly, S., Murphy, B.T., Lasberg, K., Somelar, P., Garneau, M., Finkelstein, S.A., Sobol, M.K., Kalm, V., Costa, P.J.M., Hancock, R.G. V, Hart, K.M., Tricart, P., Barendregt, R.W., Bunch, T.E., and Milner, M.W. (2016) Biostratigraphic Evidence Relating to the Age-Old Question of Hannibal’s Invasion of Italy, II: Chemical Biomarkers and Microbial Signatures. Archaeometry, 59, 179-190. doi:10.1111/arcm.12228.
Mahaney, W.C., Somelar, P., Dirszowsky, R.W., Kelleher, B., Pentlavalli, P., McLaughlin, S., Kulakova, A.N., Jordan, S., Pulleyblank, C., West, A., and Allen, C.C.R. (2016) A Microbial Link to Weathering of Postglacial Rocks and Sediments, Mount Viso Area, Western Alps, Demonstrated through Analysis of a Soil/Paleosol Bio/Chronosequence. Journal of Geology, 124, 149–169. doi:10.1086/684442.
O’Reilly, S.S., Pentlavalli, P., Flanagan, P.V., Allen, C.C.R., Monteys, X., Szpak, M.T., Murphy, B.T., Jordan, S.F., and Kelleher, B.P. (2016) Abundance and diversity of sedimentary bacterial communities in a coastal productive setting in the Western Irish Sea. Continental Shelf Research, 113, 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2015.12.002.

2014

O’Reilly, S.S., Hryniewicz, K., Little, C.T.S., Monteys, X., Szpak, M.T., Murphy, B.T., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., and Kelleher, B.P. (2014) Shallow water methane-derived authigenic carbonate mounds at the Codling Fault Zone, western Irish Sea. Marine Geology 357, 139–150. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.08.007.
O’Reilly, S.S., Szpak, M.T., Flanagan, P. V., Monteys, X., Murphy, B.T., Jordan, S.F., Allen, C.C.R., Simpson, A.J., Mulligan, S.M., Sandron, S., and Kelleher, B.P. (2014) Biomarkers reveal the effects of hydrography on the sources and fate of marine and terrestrial organic matter in the western Irish Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 136, 157–171. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.11.002.
Mahaney, W.C., Allen, C.C.R., Pentlavalli, P., Dirszowsky, R., Tricart, P., Keiser, L., Somelar, P., Kelleher, B., Murphy, B., Costa, P.J.M., Jordan, S., O’Reilly, S., and Juligj, P. (2014) Polybius’ “previous landslide”: Proof that Hannibal’s invasion route crossed the col de la traversette. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 14, 77–94. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14744.

2011

Hart, K.M., Szpak, M.T., Mahaney, W.C., Dohm, J.M., Jordan, S.F., Frazer, A.R., Allen, C.C.R., and Kelleher, B.P. (2011) A bacterial enrichment study and overview of the extractable lipids from paleosols in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: implications for future Mars reconnaissance. Astrobiology, 11, 303–21. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0583.