 He has served on the editorial boards of "Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology" and the "International Journal of Tropical Insect Sciences".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.