Education

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
May 1999-January 2000

University of  Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Ph.D.
Thesis advisor: Dr. R.  ffrench-Constant
1994 - 1999

Purdue University
West  Lafayette, IN
M.S.
Thesis advisor: Dr. L.L. Murdock
1991-1994

University of Regina
Regina, Canada
B.Sc. Honors
1986-1990

Work Experience

Visiting Scholar, CSIRO, Biotechnology Section, Black Mountain, Canberrra, ACT, Australia. January to June 1996.  Project funded by The Divisions of International Programs NSF grant. Collaboration with Drs. S. Trowell and J. Daly.

Visiting Student, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, Oct 1996-Dec 1997.  Collaboration with Dr. M. Kreitman.

Visiting Student, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, Jan 1997-Dec 1997.  Dr. D. Hanck.

Visiting Professor (from Purdue University) and Max Planck Post-doctoral Fellowship. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Department of Genetics and Evolution, Karl-Zeiss Promenade 10, 07745 Jena. Germany, August 1999-January 2000.

Research Publications (2003 - Present)

Kuruganti, S., V. Lam, X. Zhou, G. Bennett, B.R. Pittendrigh and R. Ganguly.  2006.  High expression of Cyp6g1, a cytochrome P450 gene, does not necessarily confer DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster.  Gene.  In Press.

Pittendrigh, B.R ., J. M. Clark, J. S. Johnston, S. H. Lee, J. Romero-Severson, and G. A. Dasch. 2006. Proposed Sequencing of a New Target Genome: The Human Body Louse, Pediculus humanus humanus.  J. Med. Ent.  In press.

Sun, W., V. Margam, L. Sun, G. Buczkowski, G. Bennett, B. Schemerhorn, W. M. Muir, and B. R. Pittendrigh.  2006. Genome-wide analysis of phenobarbital-inducible genes in Drosophila melanogaster .  Insect Mol. Biol.  In press.

Tarver, M.R., R.E. Shade, R.D. Tarver, Y. Liang, G. Krishnamurthi, B.R. Pittendrigh , and L.L. Murdock.  2006.  Use of micro-CAT scans to understand cowpea seed resistance to Callosobruchus maculatus .  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 118(1): 33-39.
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Liu, Y., J.-E. Ahn, S. Datta, R. A. Salzman, J. Moon, B. Huyghues-Despointes, B. Pittendrigh , L. L. Murdock, H. Koiwa, and K. Zhu-Salzman.  2005. Arabidopsis Vegetative Storage Protein Is An Anti-Insect Acid Phosphatase.  Plant Physiology.  139 (3).  In press.

Pedra, J.H.F., R. A. Festucci-Buselli, W. Sun, W. M. Muir, M. E. Scharf, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2005. Profiling of abundant proteins associated with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)-resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Proteomics. 5(1): 258-269.

Scharf, M.E., Ratliff, C.R., Wu-Scharf, D., Zhou, X., Pittendrigh, B.R. , and G.W. Bennett. 2005. Effects of juvenile hormone III on Reticulitermes flavipes : changes in hemolymph protein composition and gene expression. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35(3): 207-15.

Festucci-Buselli, R.A., Carvalho-Dias, A.S., de Oliveira-Andrade, M., Caixeta-Nunes, C., Li, H.M., Stuart, J.J., Muir, W., Scharf, M.E., and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2005. Expression of Cyp6g1 and Cyp12d1 in DDT resistant and susceptible strains of Drosophila melanogaster . Insect Mol Biol. 14(1): 69-77.

Scharf, M,E, Wu-Scharf, D., Zhou, X., Pittendrigh, B.R. , and G.W. Bennett. 2005. Gene expression profiles among immature and adult reproductive castes of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes . Insect Mol Biol. (1): 31-44

Pittendrigh, B.R ., P. J. Gaffney, J. E. Huesing, D. W. Onstad, R. T. Roush, and L. L. Murdock. 2004. "Active" refuges can inhibit the evolution of resistance in insects towards transgenic insect-resistant plants. J. Theor. Biol. 231(4): 461-74.

Scharf, M.E., D.W. Scharf, G.W. Bennett and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Catalytic activity and expression of two flavin-containing monooxygenases from D. melanogaster. Archives. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 57: 28-39.

Pedra, J.H.F., A. Hostetler, P.J. Gaffney, R.A. Reenan, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Hyper-susceptibility to deltamethrin in para ts-1 DDT resistant Drosophila melanogaster . Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 78: 58-66.

Pedra, J.H.F., L.M. McIntyre , M.E. Scharf and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Genome-wide transcription profile of field- and laboratory-selected DDT-resistant Drosophila . Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA . 101(18): 7034-7039.

Scharf, M. E. , C. R. Ratliff, J. R. Hoteling, B. R. Pittendrigh and G. W. Bennett. 2003. Responses of Reticulitermes flavipes and R. tibialis to natural juvenile hormone homologs and synthetic juvenoids in two laboratory assays. Insectes Sociaux. 50(4): 346-354.

Scharf , M.E. , D. W. Scharf, B. R. Pittendrigh , and G. W. Bennett. 2003. Caste and development-associated gene expression in a lower termite. Genome Biol. 4:R62.

Pedra, J. H. F., A. Brandt, H. M. Li, R. Westerman, J. Romero-Severson, R. J. Pollack, L.L. Murdock and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2003. Transcriptome identification of putative genes involved in protein catabolism and innate immune response in human body louse (Pediculicidae: Pediculus humanus ). Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 33 (11): 1135-1143.

Pedra, J.H.F., A. Brandt, R. Westerman, N. Lobo, H.-M. Li, J. Romero-Severson, L. L. Murdock and B. R. Pittendrigh. 2003. Transcriptome analysis of the cowpea weevil bruchid: identification of putative proteinases and α-amylases associated with food breakdown. Insect Molec. Biol. 12(4): 405-412.

Wu-Scharf, D., M.E. Scharf, B.R. Pittendrigh and G.W. Bennett. 2003. Expressed sequence tags from a polyphenic Reticulitermes flavipes cDNA library. Sociobiology 41(2): 479-490.

Research Publications (1992 - 2002)

Brandt, A., M.E. Scharf, J.H.F. Pedra, G. Holmes, A. Dean, M. Kreitman and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2002. Differential expression and induction of two Drosophila cytochrome P450 genes near the Rst(2)DDT locus. Insect Molec. Biol. 11(4): 337-342.

Pittendrigh B.R . and P.J. Gaffney. 2001. Pesticide resistance: Can we make it a renewable resource? J. Theor. Biol. 211(4): 365-375.

Pittendrigh, B.R ., H. Laskowski, G. O'Shea, A. Larsen and R. Wolfe. 2001. Carbohydrate-based mosquito control: A field test of the concept. Environ. Entom. 30(2): 388-393.

P. Daborn, S. Boundy, J. Yen, B. Pittendrigh and R. ffrench-Constant. 2001. DDT resistance in Drosophila correlates with Cyp6g1 over-expression and confers cross-resistance to the neonicotinoid imidacloprid. Mol. Gen. Genom. 266: 556-563.

Pittendrigh, B., P. Gaffney and L. Murdock. 2000. Deterministic modeling of negative-cross resistance for use in transgenic host-plant resistance. J. Theor. Biol. 204:135-150.

Stotz, H. U., B. R. Pittendrigh , J. Kroymann, K. Weniger, J. Fritsche, A. Bauke, and T. Mitchell-Olds. 2000. Induced plant defense responses against chewing insects. Ethylene signaling reduces resistance of Arabidopsis against Egyptian cotton worm but not diamondback moth. Plant Physiol. 124(3): 1007-1026.

Martin, R. L., B. Pittendrigh , J. Liu, R. Reenan, R. ffrench-Constant and D. A. Hanck. 2000. A point mutation in domain III of a Drosophila neuronal Na channel confers resistance to allethrin. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 30: 1051-1059.

Laskowski, H., G. O'Shea, A. Larsen, and B. Pittendrigh. 1999. Effect of xanthan gum and traditional mosquito larvicides on an important wetland wildlife food resource, Chironomid larvae. Wildlife Soc. Bull. 27(3):741-745.

ffrench-Constant, R., B. Pittendrigh , A. Vaughan and N. Anthony. 1998. Why are there so few resistance-associated mutations in insecticide target genes? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 353:1-9.

Martin, R.L., B. Pittendrigh , J. Liu , R. Reenan, B. Ganetzky, R. ffrench-Constant and D. Hanck. 1998. A point mutation in domain III of a Drosophila neuronal Na channel confers resistance to type I pyrethroids. Biophys. J. 74, A400.

Pittendrigh, B., R. Reenan, R. ffrench-Constant, B. Ganetsky. 1997. Point mutations in the Drosophila para voltage-gated sodium channel gene confer resistance to DDT and pyrethroid insecticides. Mol. Gen. Genetics. 256:602-610.

Pittendrigh, B., K. Aronstein, E. Zinkovsky, O. Andrev, B. Cambell, J. Daly, S. Trowell, and R. ffrench-Constant. 1997. Cytochrome P450 genes from Heliocoverpa armigera : expression in a pyrethroid susceptible and resistant strain. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 27(6):507-512.

Pittendrigh, B.R., J.E. Huesing, R.E. Shade and L.L. Murdock. 1997. Effects of lectins, CRY1A/CRY1B Bt delta-endotoxin, PAPA, protease and alpha-amylase inhibitors, on the development of the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae , using an artificial seed bioassay. Ent. exp. et appl. 82: 201-211.

Pittendrigh, B.R., J.E. Huesing, R.E. Shade and L.L. Murdock. 1997. Monitoring of rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae , feeding behavior in maize seeds and the occurrence of supernumerary molts in low humidity conditions. Ent. exp. et appl. 83: 225-231.

Pittendrigh, B ., G. Mocelin, O. Andreev and R. ffrench-Constant. 1996. The sequence of a Drosophila Cyp4e2 cytochrome P450-encoding cDNA. Gene. 179:295-296.

Dunkov, B., R. Rodrigues-Arnias, B. Pittendrigh , R. ffrench-Constant, and R. Feyereisen. 1996. Cytochrome P450 gene clusters in Drosophila melanogaster . Mol. Gen. Genet. 251: 290-297.

Pittendrigh, B.R . and K.A. Pivnick. 1993. Effects of the host plant Brassica juncea (L.) on the calling behaviour and ovarian development in Plutella xylostella . Ent. exp. et appl. 68: 117-126.

Pittendrigh, B.R. and R.Y. Zackaruk. 1992. Laboratory evaluations of xanthan gum for the control of Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae) pupae. Environ. Entomol. 21(6): 1267-1270.

Csada, R.D., R.M. Brigham, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 1992. Prey selection in relation to insect availability in the Common Poorwill. Can. J. Zool. 70:1299-1303.

Review Articles and Book Chapters

ffrench-Constant, R., B. Pittendrigh , A. Vaughan and N. Anthony. 1999. Why are there so few resistance-associated mutations in insecticide target genes? In Insecticide Resistance: From Mechanisms to Management . Edited by Denholm, I. , Pickett, J.A., and A.L. Devonshire. A.L. Wallingford, Oxon , U.K. CABI, The Royal Society, pages 9-18.

Teaching Publications (2002 - Present)

Rothhaar, R., B. R. Pittendrigh , and K.S. Orvis. 2006. The Genomics Analogy Model for Educators (GAME): The Effectiveness of the Lego® Analogy Model in Teaching Gene Sequencing and Biotechnology in High School Classrooms. J. Biol. Educ. 40(4):166-171.

Corn, J. B.R. Pittendrigh , and K.S. Orvis. 2004. Genomic Analogy Model for Educators (GAME): from jumping genes to alternative splicing. J. Biol. Educ. 39(1)-24-26.

Kirkpatrick, G., K. Orvis, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2002. A teaching model for biotechnology and genomics education. J. Biol. Educ. 37(1): 31-35.