Publications
2025:
Mughal, S., Millikin, A.E.G., Zhang, T., Gibson, T.M., Rooney, A.D., Tosca, N.J., Bergmann, K.D., Strauss, J.V., Anderson, R.P., 2025. The Svanbergfjellet Formation: Viewing the nascent eukaryotic world. Journal of Geological Society: Lagerstätten Series. Open access at: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-083
2024:
Anderson, R.P., Mughal, S., Wedlake, G.O., 2024. Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life. Royal Society Open Science. Open access at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240154
Posters & Abstracts
2024:
Mughal, S., Konhauser, K. O., 2024. A current view and evaluation of global diversity in the Proterozoic: insights from the fossil record. Life & Planet Meeting, London, UK
Evans, I.,* Fujiwara, J., Mughal, S., Rozanitis, K., Dusseault, M., Konhauser, K. O. 2024. What can the Proterozoic fossil record reveal about the early evolution of life?. WISEST Summer Program, University of Alberta.
Fujiwara, J., Evans, I., Dusseault, M., Liang, X., Mughal, S., Rozanitis, K., Konhauser, K. O. 2024. Using isotope ratios in a giant clam fossil to reveal ancient climate conditions. WISEST Summer Program, University of Alberta.
2023:
Mughal, S., Rimmer, P., Shorttle, O., Mitchell, E., 2023. Numerical Solutions to the Ecological Dynamics of Shadow Biospheres. Origins Conference, Quito, Ecuador.
Mughal, S., Cosmidis, J., 2023. The formation of Carbon-Sulphur Biomorphs as potential protocells in early Earth environments. Origins Conference, Quito, Ecuador. Awarded Excellent Poster
Mughal, S., Cosmidis, J., 2023. The formation of Carbon-Sulphur Biomorphs as potential protocells in early Earth environments. Life & Planet Meeting, London, UK.
2021:
Mughal, S., Wedlake, G.O., Gibson, T.M., Millikin, A.E.G., Strauss, J.V., Rooney, A.D., Tosca, N.J., Bergmann, K.D., Anderson, R.P., 2021. Re-exploring the exceptionally preserved fossils of the Tonian Svanbergfjellet Formation of Svalbard to understand the rise of eukaryotes. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK, online.
Wedlake, G.O., Mughal, S., Gibson, T.M., Millikin, A.E.G., Strauss, J.V., Rooney, A.D., Piepjohn, K., Tosca, N.J., Anderson, R.P., 2021. Microfossils from the ~850-million-year-old Veteranen Group of Svalbard: Insights into the nascent eukaryotic world. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK, online.
Presentations
2025:
‘Understanding the early biosphere through the lens of the microfossil record’, ATLAS Graduate Symposium, University of Alberta
‘A snapshot in deep time: What the 790-million-year-old Svanbergfjellet Formation fossils tell us about early eukaryotic evolution’, Northern Students Association, University of Alberta (Invited talk)
‘The Precambrian microfossil record: a lens for understanding the ancient (and extraterrestrial!) biosphere’, Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Manchester (Invited talk)
2023:
‘Characterising and classifying the unknown chondrites AS38, JW230 & JW231; a comparison of carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites’, Advanced Planetary Geology, Dept. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
‘Investigating the surface complexation of Synechococcus 7002 with Cadmium’, Advanced Geomicrobiology, Dept. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
‘Diving into Darwin’s warm little pond’, Annual Mapping Dinner, St Anne’s Geological Society, University of Oxford
‘An extinction to begin all mass extinctions: the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary’, Palaeobiology, 4th Year Seminars, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
2022:
‘Factors allowing the accumulation of Oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event’, Co-evolution of Life & Earth, 4th Year Seminars, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
‘Innovations in Photosynthesis: Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms’, Co-evolution of Life & Earth, 4th Year Seminars, Dept. of Earth 2022 Sciences, University of Oxford
‘Ca/Mg Seas and the Advent of Biomineralization’, Co-evolution of Life & Earth, 4th Year Seminars, Dept. of Earth 2022 Sciences, University of Oxford
‘The case for life on Mars: Why I respect McKay et al., 1996’, Environmental, Rock & Palaeomagnetism, 4th Year Seminars, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
‘Ecological Dynamics of Shadow Biospheres’, Oxford University Geological Society, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
‘Re-exploring the exceptionally preserved fossils of the Tonian Svanbergfjellet Formation of Svalbard to understand the rise of eukaryotes’, Annual Mapping Dinner, St Anne’s Geological Society, University of Oxford
Datasets & Data Contrubutions
2024:
Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Proterozoic Microfossil Database (unpublished)
Palaeobiology Database
Phylopic