Patrick M. Ferree

Associate Professor of Biology

Email: pferree@kecksci.claremont.edu
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

1. Ferree PM, Barbash DA. (2009). Species-specific heterochromatin prevents mitotic chromosome segregation to cause hybrid lethality in Drosophila. PLoS Biology  7(10): e1000234.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Ferree PM and Barbash DA. (2007). Distorted sex ratios: a window into RNAi-mediated silencing. PLoS Biology   5(11): e303.
5. Beukeboom LW, Kamping A, Louter M, Pijnacker LP, Katju V, Ferree PM. (2007). Haploid females in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Science  315: 206.
6. Ferree PM, McDonald K, Fasulo B, Sullivan W. (2006). The origin of centrosomes in parthenogenetic hymenopteran insects. Current Biology  16: 801-807.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9.  Tram U, Ferree PM, Sullivan W. (2003). Identification of Wolbachia-host interacting factors through cytological analysis. Microbes and Infection   5: 999-1011.