Patrick M. Ferree
Associate Professor of Biology
Email: [email protected]
Office: Keck Science Center 16A
Phone: 909-607-8304
Web Site: https://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/pferree
Educational Background:
B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S., Wake Forest University
Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz
Postdoc, Cornell University
Courses Taught
- Introductory Biology (43L)
- Developmental Biology
Research Interests
- Chromosome structure and function
- Heterochromatin and satellite DNA
- Mechanisms of microbial and genetic parasites
Thesis Topics
- Lethal ring-Y chromosomes
- Satellite divergence and hybrid incompatibility
- Effects of selfish B chromosomes
- Spiroplasma-induced male killing
Selected Publications
- Ferree PM, Barbash DA. (2009). Species-specific heterochromatin prevents mitotic chromosome segregation to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. PLoS Biology 7(10): e1000234.
- Ferree PM, Avery A, Azpurua J, Wilkes T and Werren JH. (2008). A Bacterium Targets Maternally Inherited Centrosomes to Kill Males in Nasonia. Current Biology 18: 1409-1414.
- Clark ME, Bailey-Jourdain C, Ferree PM, England SJ, Sullivan W, Windsor DM, Werren JH . (2008). Wolbachia modification of sperm does not always require residence within developing sperm. Heredity 101(5): 420-428.
- Ferree PM and Barbash DA. (2007). Distorted sex ratios: a window into RNAi-mediated silencing. PLoS Biology 5(11): e303.
- Beukeboom LW, Kamping A, Louter M, Pijnacker LP, Katju V, Ferree PM. (2007). Haploid females in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Science 315: 206.
- Ferree PM, McDonald K, Fasulo B, Sullivan W. (2006). The origin of centrosomes in parthenogenetic hymenopteran insects. Current Biology 16: 801-807.
- Ferree PM, Sullivan W. (2006). A genetic test of the role of the maternal pronucleus in Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 173: 839-847.
- Ferree PM, Frydman HM, Li JM, Cao J, Wieschaus E, Sullivan W . (2005). Wolbachia utilizes host microtubules and Dynein for anterior localization in the Drosophila oocyte. PLoS Pathogens 1: e14.
- Tram U, Ferree PM, Sullivan W. (2003). Identification of Wolbachia-host interacting factors through cytological analysis. Microbes and Infection 5: 999-1011.