B.A., University of San Diego; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara

Dr. Goffredi‘s research interests concern beneficial symbiotic partnerships between bacteria and invertebrates. Most of her career has so far been devoted to the study of beneficial associations between bacteria and deep-sea invertebrates,including marine polychaetes (Riftia and Osedax), clams (Calyptogena), crabs (the yeti crab Kiwa), and leeches. In the past few years, she has begun to explore tropical insects which provide many promising new avenues for research with regard to bacterial involvement in their nutritional ecology

Aronson, H.S.*, A.J. Zellmer, Goffredi, S.K, (2017). The specific and exclusive microbiome of the deep-sea bone-eating snail, Rubyspira osteovora. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(3): fiw250. Pasulka, A.L., S.K. Goffredi, P.L. Tavormina, K.S. Dawson, L.A. Levin, G.W. Rouse, Victoria J. Orphan. (2017). Colonial tube-dwelling ciliates influence methane cycling and microbial diversity within methane seep ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science - Aquatic Microbiology. 3:276. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00276. Klann, J.*, A. McHenry*. C. Montelongo*, Goffredi, S.K, (2016). Decomposition of plant-sourced carbon compounds by heterotrophic Betaproteobacteria isolated from the tank of a tropical Costa Rican bromeliad. MicrobiologyOpen. doi:10.1002/mbo3.344. Goffredi, S.K., G. Jang, M. Haroom. (2015) Transcriptomics in the tropics: Total RNA-based profiling of Costa Rican bromeliad-associated communities. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 13: 18-23. Rahman, N.A., D.H. Parks, D.L. Willner, A.L. Engelbrektson, S.K. Goffredi, F. Warnecke, R.H. Scheffrahn and P. Hugenholtz. (in press). A molecular survey of Australian and North American termite genera indicates that co-evolution is the primary force shaping termite gut microbiomes. Microbiome. 3:5 doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0067-8. Bistolas, K.I.S.*, R. Sakamoto*. J.A.M. Fernandes, Goffredi, S.K, (2014). Symbiont polyphyly, co-evolution, and necessity in pentatomid stinkbugs from Costa Rica. Frontiers in Microbology. 5:349 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00349 Larson, H.K., Goffredi, S.K., Parra, E.L., Vargas, O., Pinto, A., McGlynn, T.P. (2014). Distribution and dietary regulation of an associated facultative Rhizobiales-related bacterium in the omnivorous Giant Tropical Ant, Paraponera clavata.Naturwissenschaften. 101(5): 397-406. Goffredi, S.K, W.J. Jones, A. Gregory*, N. Morella*, R. Sakamoto*. (2014). Ontogenetic variation in epibiont community structure in the deep-sea yeti crab, Kiwa hirsuta: Convergence among crustaceans. Molecular Ecology.23:1457-1472. Goffredi, S.K, H. Yi, Q. Zhang, J. Klann*, I. Struve*, R.C. Virjenhoek, C. Brown. (2014). Genomic versatility and functional variation between two dominant heterotrophic symbionts of deep-sea Osedax worms. The ISME Journal. 8: 908-924. Goffredi S.K., N. Morella*, M. Pulcrano*. (2012). Affiliations between bacteria and marine fish leeches (Piscicolidae), with emphasis on a new deep-sea species from Monterey Canyon, CA. Environmental Microbiology. 14:2429-2444. Levin LA, Orphan VJ, Rouse GW, Rathburn AE, Ussler W III, Cook GS, Goffredi S.K., et al. (2012). A hydrothermal seep on the Costa Rica margin: middle ground in a continuum of reducing ecosystems. Proc. R. Soc. B. 279: 2580-2588. Martin^, A.M. and S.K. Goffredi. (2012). “Pliocardia” krylovata, a new species of vesicomyid clam from cold seeps along the Costa Rica Margin. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK. 92:1127-1137. Goffredi S.K., G. Jang*, W. T. Woodside* and W. Ussler III..(2011). Bromeliad catchments as habitats for methanogenesis in tropical rainforest canopies. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2:256. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00256. Martin^, A.M. G. M. Martin, R. Butler, and S.K. Goffredi. (2011). Synthesis of keyhole limpet hemocyanin by the rhogocytes of Megathura crenulata. Invertebrate Biology. 130: 302-312. Rouse, G.W., S.K. Goffredi, S. B. Johnson, and R. C. Vrijenhoek (2011) Not whale-fall specialists, Osedax worms also consume fishbones. Biol. Lett. 7:736-739. Goffredi S.K., A.H. Kantor*, W.T. Woodside* (2011). Aquatic microbial habitats within a neotropical rainforest: bromeliads and pH-associated trends in bacterial diversity. Microbial Ecology, 61: 529-542. Goffredi S.K. (2010). Indigenous ectosymbiotic bacteria associated with diverse hydrothermal vent invertebrates.Environ. Microbiol. Reports. 2: 479-488.