{"id":10912,"date":"2025-06-26T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=10912"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:16:54","slug":"martin-ferris-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/people\/martin-ferris-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Ferris, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"department-affiliations\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.1; font-size: small; color: #333;\">Department Affiliations:<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Genetics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"other-programs\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.1; font-size: small; color: #333;\">Other UNC PhD Program Affiliations:<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n\n<p>In the Ferris lab, we use genetically diverse mouse strains to better understand the role of genetic variation in immune responses to a variety of insults. We then study these variants mechanistically. We also develop genetic and genomic datasets and resources to better identify genetic features associated with these immunological differences.<\/p>\n<h2>Mentor Training:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Relational Leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Training Program Affiliations:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bioinformatics and Computational Biology<\/li>\n<li>Genetics and Molecular Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/myncbi\/martin.ferris.1\/bibliography\/48360234\/public\/?sort=date&amp;direction=ascending\">PubMed<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10913,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[37],"faculty-mentorship-training":[49],"class_list":["post-10912","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-faculty","faculty-mentorship-training-relational-leadership-institute","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Ferris","ud_first_name":"Martin","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":[{"ud_location":"Office","ud_number":"9199665881"}],"ud_email":"mtferris@email.unc.edu","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Professor of Genetics"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/06\/Marty-Ferris-Genetics.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/06\/Marty-Ferris-Genetics.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/06\/Marty-Ferris-Genetics.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/06\/Marty-Ferris-Genetics.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/06\/Marty-Ferris-Genetics-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry\/10912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ud_entry"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ud_division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_division?post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-mentorship-training","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-mentorship-training?post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}