Warren W. Burggren

Department of Biology, The University of North Texas (UNT)

Warren W. Burggren is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology and Dean, Arts and Sciences. His research focuses upon developmental and evolutionary physiology at the tissue, organ system and organismal level. Additionally, he is interested in interdisciplinary activities surrounding physiological complexity and quantitative methods for describing how complexity changes during the developmental processes of animals. In this regard he has partnered extensively with applied mathematicians and bio-engineers to develop micro-techniques for making physiological measurements in the earliest embryonic stages of development, and then analyzing and modeling these data to understand how complexity unfolds during organ and organ system formation. Burggren has published approximately 165 articles, chapters, monographs and textbooks in comparative animal physiology. /

Degrees: PhD (Physiology), University of East Anglia, UK, 1976, Advisor: Graham Shelton; BS (Biology), University of Calgary, 1973.

Positions Held: 1998-Present, Professor, Dept. Biology. and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of North Texas; 1992-1998, Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 1978-1992, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 1976-1978, National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1976, Lecturer, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Awards/Honors: Barrick Distinguished Scholar, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (1997); University and Community College System of Nevada Board of Regents’ Medal and Citation as Regents’ Researcher (1997); Nevada Regents’ Research Medal (1997); Medal of the University of Helsinki, Finland (19996); Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1992); Killam Postdoctoral Scholarship - Univ. of British Columbia (1976-1978); NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Univ. of British Columbia (1976-1978)

Research Support: NSF – Continuous funding since 1980, ~ $3.2 mil., various operating, equipment and educational programs. Other auxiliary funding from Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Max Baer Heart fund, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japanese Ministry of Education, Science &Culture, State Government of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Parker B. Francis Foundation, Puritan-Bennett Foundation.

Selected Activities: Series Editor-In-Chief, Ecological and Environmental Physiology, Oxford University Press monograph series, (2003-present); Chair, Animal Biology Experimentation Flight Panel, NASA (2000-2001); NSF panels (various, 1986, 1992, 1997, 1996-2001, 2004); Editor-In-Chief, Physiological Zoology, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988-1985; Chair, Science Advisory Board - National Institute for Discovery Science (2000); Science Advisory Board, Bigelow Aerospace (2000-present); Director, NIH/DOE “Bridges to the Future” Minority College Student Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; (1995-1996); Program Officer, Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, American Society of Zoologists (1984);

Selected Publications:

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1. Bagatto, B and Burggren, W. 2006. A three-dimensional functional assessment of heart and vessel development in the larva of the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Physiological Biochemistry and Zoology. 79(1):194-201.

2. Burggren, W.W. and Monticino, M.G. 2005. Assessing Physiological Complexity. Journal of Experimental Biology. 208:3221-3232.

3. Burggren, W.W. and Warburton, S.J. 2005. Comparative Developmental Physiology: An interdisciplinary convergence. Annual Reviews of Physiology. 67:203-223.

4. Burggren, W.W. 2005. Developing animals flout prominent assumptions of ecological physiology. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. A. 141(4):430-439.

5. Chan, T. and Burggren, W.W. 2005. Hypoxic incubation creates differential morphological effects during specific developmental critical windows in the embryo of the chicken (Gallus gallus). Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology. 145:251-263.

6. Burggren, W.W. 2004. What is the purpose of the embryonic heart beat? Orhow facts can ultimately prevail over physiological dogma. Physiological Biochemistry and Zoology. 77:333-345.

7. Spicer, J. I. and Burggren, W. W.2003. Development of physiological regulatory systems: altering the timing of crucial events. Zoology (formerly Zoology – Analysis of Complex Systems): 106:91-99.

8. Burggren, W. and Crossley, D. A. II. 2002. Comparative cardiovascular development: improving the conceptual framework. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. A 132:661-674.

Graduate Student / Post-DocTrainees: 11 M.Sc.; 11 Ph.D.; 11 post-docs. Currently supervising 5 Ph.D., 2 M.S. students