PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR’S PUBLICATIONS

*undergraduates, +graduate students, and #postdoctoral researchers mentored.

^ indicates mentorship performed at Penn and @ indicates corresponding authorship.

#^Choi, J.K., #^Vigliaturo, R., Gieré, R., and Pérez-Rodríguez, I.@ (2023) Microbe-mineral interactions between asbestos and thermophilic chemosynthetic anaerobes. Appl Environ Microbiol 89: e02048-22. Article chosen for press release by the American Society for Microbiology: https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2023/May/Heat-Loving-Marine-Bacteria-Can-Help-Detoxify-Asbe

Sandora, M., Airapetian, V., Barnes, L., Lewis, G.F., and Pérez-Rodríguez, I. (2023) Multiverse predictions for habitability: origin of life scenarios. Universe 9: 42.

Sandora, M., Airapetian, V., Barnes, L., Lewis, G.F., and Pérez-Rodríguez, I. (2022) Multiverse predictions for habitability: element abundances in other universes. Universe 8: 651.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I.@, Fogel, M.L., Sievert, S.M., and D.I. Foustoukos (2022) Physiological and metabolic responses of chemosynthetic NO3- reducers to high hydrostatic pressure. Geobiology 20: 857-869.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I.@, #^Choi, J.K., *Abuyen, K., *Tyler, M., *Ronkowski, C., *Romero, E., *Trujillo, A., *Tremblay, *^Viney, I., Savalia, P., and J. Amend. (2021) Geothermobacter hydrogeniphilus sp. nov., a mesophilic, iron(III)-reducing bacterium from seafloor/subseafloor environments in the Pacific Ocean, and emended description of the genus Geothermobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 71: 004739.

Vigliaturo, R., Choi, J.K., Pérez-Rodríguez, I. and R. Gieré. (2020) Dimensional distribution control of elongate mineral particles for their use in biological assays. MethodsX 7: 100937.

#^Vigliaturo, R., Marengo, A., Bittarello E., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Dražić, G. and R. Gieré. (2020) Micro- and nano-scale mineralogical characterization of Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterial stalks. Geobiology 18(5): 606-618.

Giunta, T., Young, E.D., Warr, O., Kohl, I., Ash, J.L., Martini, A., Mundle, S.O.C., Rumble, D., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Wasley, M., LaRowe, D.E., Gilbert, A. and B. Sherwood Lollar. (2019) Methane sources and sinks in continental sedimentary systems: New insights from paired clumped isotopologues 13CH₃D and 12CH₂D₂. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 245: 327-351.

Vigliaturo R., Della Ventura, G., Choi, J.K., Marengo, A., Lucci, F., O’Shea M.J., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., and R. Gieré. (2018) Mineralogical Characterization and Dissolution Experiments in Gamble’s Solution of Tremolitic Amphibole from Passo di Caldenno (Sondrio, Italy). Minerals 8(12): 557.

Smith, H., Abuyen, K., Tremblay, J., Savalia, P., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Emerson, D., Tully, B. and J. Amend. (2018) Genome Sequence of Geothermobacter sp. HR-1, an Iron Reducer from the Lō’ihi Seamount, Hawai’i. ASM Genome Announcements 6: e00339-18.

Tully, B., Savalia, P., Abuyen, K., Baughan, C., Romero, E., Ronkowski, C., Torres, B., Tremblay, J., Trujillo, A., Tyler, M., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., and J. Amend. (2017) Genome Sequence of Geothermobacter sp. strain EPR-M, a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Iron Reducer. ASM Genome Announcements 5: e00424-17.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I.@, Fogel, M. L., Sievert S. M. and D. I. Foustoukos. (2017) Biogeochemical N signatures from rate-yield trade-offs during in vitro chemosynthetic NO₃^– reduction by deep-sea vent e-Proteobacteria and Aquificae growing at different temperatures. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 211: 214-227.

Young, E. D., Kohl, I. E., Sherwood Lollar, B., Etiope, G., Rumble III, D., Li, S., Haghnegahdar, M. A., Schauble, E. A., McCain, K. A., Foustoukos, D. I., Sutclife, C., Warr, O., Ballentine, C. J., Onstott, T.C., Hosgormez, H., Neubeck, A., Marques, J. M., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Rowe, A. R., LaRowe, D. E., Magnabosco, C., Yeung, L. Y., Ash, J. L. and L. T. Bryndzia. (2017) The relative abundances of resolved 12CH₂D₂ and 13CH₃D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 203: 235-264.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I.@, *Rawls, M., Coykendall, K. and D. I. Foustoukos. (2016) Deferrisoma palaeochoriense sp. nov., a thermophilic, iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 66: 830-836.

Foustoukos, D. and I. Pérez-Rodríguez. (2015) A continuous culture system for assessing microbial activities in the piezosphere. Appl Environ Microbiol 81: 6850-6856.

Grosche, A., Sekaran, H., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Starovoytov, V. and C. Vetriani. (2015) Cetia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 65: 1144-1150.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I., +Bolognini, M., Ricci, J., Bini, E. and C. Vetriani. (2015) From deep-sea volcanoes to human pathogens: A conserved quorum-sensing signal in Epsilonproteobacteria. ISME J 9: 1222-1234.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Bonnert, A., Cuebas, M., Keddis, R. and C. Vetriani. (2013) Detection and phylogenetic analysis of the membrane-bound nitrate reductase (Nar) in pure cultures and microbial communities from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 86: 256-267.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I., *Grosche, A., *Massenburg, L., Staravoytov, V. and C. Vetriani. (2012) Phorcysia thermohydrogeniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 62: 2388-2394.

Giovannelli, D., Ricci, J., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Hügler, M., O’Brien, C., Keddis, K., Grosche, A., Goodwin, L., Bruce, D., Davenport, K., Detter, C., Han, J., Han, S., Ivanova, N., Land, M., Mikhailova, N., Nolan, M., Pitluck, S., Tapia, R., Woyke, T. and C. Vetriani. (2012) Complete genome sequence of Thermovibrio ammonificans HB-1, a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. SIGS 7: 82-90.

Giovannelli, D., Ferriera, S., Johnson, J., Kravitz, S., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Ricci, J., O’Brien, C., Voordeckers, J., Bini, E. and C. Vetriani. (2011) Draft genome sequence of Caminibacter mediatlanticus strain TB2, an epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. SIGS 5: 135-143.

Pérez-Rodríguez, I., *Ricci, J., Voordeckers, J., Starovoytov, V. and C. Vetriani. (2010) Nautilia nitratireducens sp. nov, a thermophilic, anaerobic, chemosynthetic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60: 1182-1186.

Crespo-Medina, M., Chatziefthimiou, A., Cruz-Matos, R., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Barkay, T., Lutz, R. A., Staravoytov, V. and C. Vetriani. (2009) Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium  from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59: 1497-1503.