University of Regina Purdue University University of Wisconsin at Madison
Academic work
Institutions
Purdue University
Barry Robert Pittendrigh is a Canadian-American molecular biologist,researcher and educator. He holds the John V. Osmun Endowed Chair and is the director of the Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management at Purdue University.[1]
In 2000,Pittendrigh joined Purdue University as an assistant professor in the Department Entomology,becoming associate professor in 2004. In 2008,he left Purdue University and joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,where he was both a professor and held the C.W. Kearns,C.L. Metcalf and W.P. Flint Endowed Chair in Insect Toxicology. Pittendrigh left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 to join Michigan State University,where he held an MSU Foundation Professor position.[2]
In January 2021,he returned to Purdue University where he holds John V. Osmun Endowed Chair[3] and is the Director of the Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management.[4]
Research and work
Pittendrigh has used Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to understand how organisms respond to dietary factors or drugs,or evolve resistance to xenobiotics such as pesticides. Most notably his research has used genomic,transcriptomic,and proteomic approaches to understand the evolution of resistance to pesticides.[5] He was the lead author on the White Paper that was funded by NIH for the sequencing of the body louse genome.[6]
In 2008,an insect species,Myrsidea pittendrighi was named in "honor of Barry Pittendrigh in recognition of his efforts to organize and obtain the first complete sequences of a louse genome,which will be a great asset to work on the systematics of lice."[7]
In 2011,Pittendrigh and collaborator Julia Bello-Bravo,launched Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO),a program focused on taking expert knowledge and placing it into a video animation format,where the content can be placed into numerous languages.[8]
Awards and honors
2013 –Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement for the Scientific Animations Without Borders program[9]
2015 –Innovation Celebration:Social Venture Award for Scientific Animations Without Borders[10]
2016 –John V. Osmun Award Alumni Professional Achievement Award,Purdue University[11]
Selected publications
Pedra, J.H.F.; McIntyre, L.M.; Scharf, M.E.; Pittendrigh, B.R. (2004). "Genome-wide transcription profile of field- and laboratory-selected DDT-resistant Drosophila". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (18): 7034–7039. doi:10.1073/pnas.0308458101 (inactive 1 July 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Pedra, J.H.F.; Festucci-Buselli, R.A.; Sun, W.; Muir, W.M.; Scharf, M.E.; Pittendrigh, B.R. (2005). "Profiling of abundant proteins associated with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)-resistance in Drosophila melanogaster". Proteomics. 5 (1): 258–269. doi:10.1002/pmic.200400915. PMID15378755.
↑ Pittendrigh, B. R.; Clark, J. M.; Johnston, J. S.; Lee, S. H.; Romero-severson, J.; Dasch, G. A. (1 November 2006). "Sequencing of a New Target Genome: the Pediculus humanus humanus (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) Genome Project". Journal of Medical Entomology. 43 (6): 1103–1111. doi:10.1603/0022-2585(2006)43[1103:soantg]2.0.co;2 (inactive 11 July 2025). PMID17162941.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
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